Relax

Description

Relax is a free specialized web server log analysis tool for referrer information processing. It answers the question: "Which search engines, search keywords and referring URLs led visitors to your site?".
Relax reports tell you quantity of visitor you are getting from the leading search engines, as well as the most popular keywords being used. In version 2.80 Relax recognizes the over 520 most popular search engines.
Relax generates lists of URLs directing to your pages with a count of the number of times each referring URL was detected.
Relax can be integrated with Etsin to make it easy to use other web based keyword analysis tools. With these tools it's easy to check how different keywords are positioned in different search engines, and get information about related searches. See example.
Relax can help you to track down bad links, analyze what keywords to bid at pay-per-click search engines, measure the success of banner ads and affiliate programs, improve your understanding of your site's clientele, and track down potential intellectual property infringements, as well as to improve site's position in the search engines and to increase traffic.
Relax is written in Perl.
Relax supports logs in RefererLog, Apache combined, NCSA extended/combined TransferLog, and WebSTAR format. For more exotic, logs it's possible to define an ad hoc custom parser in the configuration file.
Relax is distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).

All reports in one big file: HTML (for browser use), Text, Text for Less, CSV (for spreadsheet use).
One report per file: HTML, Text, Text for Less, CSV.

(also included in the zipped distribution file)

Stable Releases
File	Release date	Size	Description
Relax 2.80	2003-09-08	153 kB	Relax Perl "source". Includes all files needed to run Relax. Requires Perl 5.x.
Relax for Windows	2003-09-08	1752 kB	Stand-alone Windows application with installer, Perl interpreter is not needed. N.B. It's possible that this release doesn't work as expected! It used to work well, but recently there have been a number of reports saying that it doesn't. Please let me know if it works or not.
Engines.pm	2007-01-21	279 kB	The latest parser file. Recognizes 526 search engines. Download this file if it is more recent than the program. See the FAQ for help in installation. New!
Bleeding-edge development snapshot releases Probably works, but may not. Only for those who know what they are doing.
File	Release date	Size	Description
Relax make	2004-03-14	157 kB	Relax Perl "source". Includes all files needed to run Relax. Requires Perl.

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Please let me know if you notice that Relax cannot correctly detect some new or previously recognized search engine.


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