Easiest way to check hits per minute?

Question

One website i was asked to look at has lots of traffic. They disabled the access_log for performance reasons (it doesnt look bad tho) and i was wondering how many hits they were getting per minute/hour/whatever.

Without enabling the access_log how can i check hits per minute/hour/day on an apache server? Maybe a line of code on the homepage for a guesstimate?

Answer 1

you could try enabling mod_status which will give you that information and much more e.g.

Current Time: Wednesday, 16-Nov-2011 21:52:01 GMT
Restart Time: Wednesday, 16-Nov-2011 21:51:50 GMT
Parent Server Generation: 0
Server uptime: 10 seconds
Total accesses: 0 - Total Traffic: 0 kB
CPU Usage: u0 s0 cu0 cs0
0 requests/sec - 0 B/second -
1 requests currently being processed, 5 idle workers

W_____..........................................................
................................................................
................................................................
................................................................

Scoreboard Key:
"_" Waiting for Connection, "S" Starting up, "R" Reading Request,
"W" Sending Reply, "K" Keepalive (read), "D" DNS Lookup,
"C" Closing connection, "L" Logging, "G" Gracefully finishing,
"I" Idle cleanup of worker, "." Open slot with no current process

Srv PID Acc M   CPU     SS  Req Conn    Child   Slot    Client  VHost   Request
0-0 4957    0/0/0   W   0.00    5   1369611147  0.0 0.00    0.00    192.168.1.73    host.lan    GET /server-status HTTP/1.1

Answer 2

Is mod_status enabled? http://www.apache.org/server-status is an example output, and it has requests/s since startup and grand totals.

Answer 3

Google Analytics does a pretty good job.

Answer 4

<?php 

/* 
In progress by HaZe as of 11-16-11
It gets the IP from the user, even behind a PHP proxy (VPNs are still hidden).
*/
if (getenv("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR")) { 
      $ipaddress   = getenv("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"); 
    } else { 
      $ipaddress   = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR"); 
} 
$localdate = date("l j F Y g:ia", time() - date("Z")); 
$useragent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; 
$referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
$page = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$useragent = strip_tags($useragent); 

$varlog = fopen("access-log-php.html", "a"); 

// Write data
fwrite($varlog, $ipaddress); 
fwrite($varlog, "<br>"); 
fwrite($varlog, $localdate); 
fwrite($varlog, "<br>"); 
fwrite($varlog, $page); 
fwrite($varlog, "<br>"); 
fwrite($varlog, $useragent);
fwrite($varlog, "<br>"); 
fwrite($varlog, $referer); 
fwrite($varlog, "<br><br>"); 

// Close file
fclose($varlog); 

?>

You can try this, just add it to the index page if it's PHP, or better yet, pop it in the "Header.html" file as a PHP function.

Every time it loads it will give you the user's IP, referrer, user agent, and page viewed.

Crudely, save this where it needs to go, for one hour, then cut and paste the file it generates (access-log-php.html) to a place where it won't be edited. You can look inside and count how many hits.

Alternatively, set up a PHP SQL function where it increments by one, and stores to a table on a database, for one hour.

PHP is the way to go, though.