Stats – I love snooping around

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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  • http://www.octabox.com adam benayoun

    Try /bbclone/ its pretty standard and nice, i know we have our stats password protected!

  • http://www.netnagel.com/ Eric

    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.

  • http://www.sleash.com Lydon

    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

    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/