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<h2 id="features">Features</h2>
<p>Essential features like hosts, pages, scripts, countries, filetype, traffic, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, <a href="/facts/HTTP_referrer/WMQI4h4K">referrer</a>, <a href="/facts/User_agent/dFEyg2Xj">user agent</a>, and error are available along with other specific W3Perl stats like real-time and session stats.
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<h2 id="administration">Administration</h2>
<p>W3Perl has an administration interface which allows building configuration files from a web interface. One can also manage configuration files, package updates, run scripts, and see stats output.
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<h2 id="cross-platform-availability">Cross-platform availability</h2>
<p>Written in <a href="/facts/Perl/fx31kjlT">Perl</a>, W3Perl can be installed on any <a href="/facts/Operating_system/8XTuvMh2">operating system</a> that supports Perl.  As such, it can be installed on Unix, Windows or Mac OS X. An installer is available for Windows and Mac OS X.
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<h2 id="licensing">Licensing</h2>
<p>W3Perl is licensed under the <a href="/facts/GNU/HlAKKBdt">GNU</a> <a href="/facts/GNU_General_Public_License/S75KhLSX">GPL</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
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<h2 id="security-considerations">Security considerations</h2>
<p>Running the scripts from the administration interface should be restricted with login/password. Blocking <a href="/facts/Referrer_spam/DpMCHg36">referrer spam</a> have been added but as it is based on a blacklist, the file must be updated regularly. Real-time stats can only run once to prevent overloading the server.
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<h3>Alternatives</h3>
<p>There are other free tools:
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<ul><li>Analog is written in C (and therefore very fast) but it lacks some features like session statistics.</li>
<li>AWStats has a large user base, is very powerful but still lacks some of the features of W3Perl.</li>
<li>Piwik is a set of scripts in PHP using a Mysql database.</li></ul>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
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<li>Free and open-source software portal</li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Data_logging/U3GglNdc">Data logging</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_web_analytics_software/xJFw0GRg">List of web analytics software</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Server_log/p7FHf8mA">Server log</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Web_analytics/F79UAMvw">Web analytics</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Web_log_analysis_software/kl2u8P3Q">Web log analysis software</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.w3perl.com/">Official website</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:2"><p>"W3Perl in 2022 - Reviews, Features, Pricing, Comparison". PAT RESEARCH: B2B Reviews, Buying Guides & Best Practices. 2022-06-04. Retrieved 2022-07-18. <a href="https://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/w3perl/" target="_blank">https://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/w3perl/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Welche Alternativen gibt es zu Google Analytics?". www.bigdata-insider.de (in German). 19 March 2018. <a href="https://www.bigdata-insider.de/welche-alternativen-gibt-es-zu-google-analytics-a-675982/" target="_blank">https://www.bigdata-insider.de/welche-alternativen-gibt-es-zu-google-analytics-a-675982/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>"W3perl - Free Software Directory". directory.fsf.org. <a href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/W3perl" target="_blank">https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/W3perl</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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