Stats - I love snooping around

By Steve Poland • May 1, 2007

If someone has their web statistics information not password-protected, then I like to look
But I wish there was a service out there (if you know of one, let me know) where I could input a URL and it would automatically test every possible URL that could possibly show their stats program. It would look at what kind of server the website is running on (MS IIS, Linux/Apache) — and based on that, look at a list of stat programs for those, look at the standard ‘out of the box’ install directories/URLs, and test them.

For example, Webalizer is a typical stats program on Linux boxes — and the standard URL is ‘domainname.com/webstat/’. Thus, here are some random sites I found (by doing a Google search for ‘/webstat/’): http://www.vaski.net/webstat/, http://www.ballyhoo.be/webstat/, and http://samo2007.chem.elte.hu/webstat/.

What are the standard directories (software stat packages) for Windows boxes? Other LAMP stat packages default directories? Or, does anyone know of a website that does what I’m asking? If not, anyone going to build one?

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4 Responses to “Stats - I love snooping around”

adam benayoun on May 1st, 2007 9:22 pm (perm link)

Try /bbclone/ its pretty standard and nice, i know we have our stats password protected!
Eric on May 2nd, 2007 9:33 am (perm link)

If you’re hosting on phpwebhosting.com, it’s /priv_stats/ - I’m sure others are set-up the same way.

You can also try this Google query. 113,000 sites sharing their stats - just for you, Steve.

Good info… like if you want to compete against Hotel-Online.com, check out their stats and their top search strings.
Lydon on May 2nd, 2007 10:59 am (perm link)

It may be obvious, but any site hosted on GoDaddy will usually be /stats/ and I believe GoDaddy also throws up stats.domain.com as well…
boolani on May 7th, 2007 12:53 pm (perm link)

Seems like somebody else has the same idea as you albeit only for sitemeter accounts. Check the picture at http://bp1.blogger.com/_7rHb98bjwGo/Rj5KOtUPwoI/AAAAAAAAAG4/Ix5kVFaYIV8/s1600-h/afflist.gif . The post is at http://notifier2.blogspot.com/