Reporting Chrome usage via AWStats

AWStats is a great tool to analyze your Apache logs. Unless you've been living under a rock, there's a new browser in town - Chrome. Until you tell AWStats how to break it out for you, you won't see any statistics for it. Read on for how to modify AWStats so that it can detect the Chrome browser.

I'm assuming that $AWSTATS_HOME is the root of where you installed AWStats
First, let's fetch the favicon so it can be displayed all pretty:

wget http://www.google.com/tools/dlpage/res/chrome/images/chrome-16.png \
-O $AWSTATS_HOME/wwwroot/icon/browser/chrome.png

Now, let's edit our perl module file. Now, because the Chrome UserAgent shows up like so:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.A.B.C Safari/525.13

we need to make sure that we check for the word 'Chrome' before we look for Mozilla, AppleWebKit, and Safari.

Fire up your favorite text editor, and open the file $AWSTATS/wwwroot/cgi-bin/lib/browsers.pm. Find the line that looks like:

@BrowsersSearchIDOrder = (

Now, scroll down until you find the next occurence of

'safari',

on its own line. Insert this line just above it:

'chrome',

Next, find this:

%BrowsersHashIDLib = (
# Common web browsers text

and add the following text immediately after it.

'chrome','Chrome',

Now to set up the beautiful icon -- find this:

%BrowsersHashIcon = (
# Standard web browsers

and add the following text immediately after it.

'chrome','chrome',

We're done! Now save the file, and either wait for your next normal log parse run, or fire one off manually. After that, you should see something similar to the following: