Installation Guide

The installation and configuration of Advanced Web Stats requires some technical knowledge and might seem elaborate, but this tutorial will help you to quickly get it up and running in order to start analyzing your website.

Advanced Web Stats Installation

1. Getting started

Before starting the installation, it is recommended to follow the steps outlined below:

  • It is important to have your Operating System up to date, so please run a Software Update first.
  • Check the minimum system requirements and make sure that your system meets them.

2. Install Advanced Web Stats

To download the latest version of Advanced Web Stats please visit the Download section from our website.

When the download finishes, you will need to follow, depending on your Operating System certain steps in order to have a successful and straight forward installation. For comprehensive installation guides follow the links below:

Install the Advanced Web Stats tracker script

To install the Advanced Web Stats script please follow the steps below:

  1. Download the AWS tracker script aws.js and copy it to the main directory of your website content.
  2. Reference the script (<script type="text/javascript" src="/aws.js"></script>) in your HTML. Enter the following line in all of your HTML pages. Although it can go anywhere in the pages, we recommend putting it in the <head> section. If you use a common include or template, you can enter it there.
  3. Setup your profile. In the AWS Administration interface, edit the profile in question and click on the General Settings tab. Set the Visitor Tracking Method to AWS Session ID and click the Apply button

Advanced Web Stats Post Installation

Once you have installed and run Advanced Web Stats, your browser will open a new window and an intuitive and friendly wizard will guide you through the post-installation process.

1. Choose your license

First, Advanced Web Stats will provide you the possibility to choose the license type you would like to use, 30 days trial or full version.

If you have already purchased an Advanced Web Stats license, you just need to select [Full version] and enter the license key you have received with your purchase confirmation email.

But if you are looking to test the capabilities of Advanced Web Stats for a period of 30 days, you can select [30 Days Trial] and enter your name and email address to register your trial license.

Note Once the trial is complete, the application will revert to the FREE Edition, but you can upgrade it at any time, by purchasing and registering a FULL Edition license.

2. Administrator setup

After you have registered your newly purchased license or signed up for a 30 days trial, it's time for you to configure a password for your Administrator user.

3. Setup Complete

Once you setup a password for the Administrator user, you are all set up and have successfully installed Advanced Web Stats on your computer.

A demo profile will been created to help you familiarize yourself with all the features of Advanced Web Stats. When you press Continue you will be redirected to the login screen where you can enter the administrator credentials that you set up in the previous step.

By following the steps outlined in this tutorial you should be able to finish the installation process of Advanced Web Stats and start setting up profiles and customizing them.