Exclude WordPress’ Admin URLs from your AWStats Reports
March 10, 2009
After upgrading a friend’s blog to WordPress 2.7 we started noticing his pageview numbers in AWStats going through the roof, without a corresponding increase in visitors. Here’s a screenshot:
Google Analytics was showing normal pageview numbers, so we knew something was amiss. When we looked at the most viewed pages in awstats, it became obvious:
AWStats has always counted pageviews on the WordPress backend, but compared to the total pageviews the impact was negligible. However, now that WordPress 2.7 makes so many AJAX calls to admin-ajax.php (primarily for saving drafts), we must exclude these pageviews from our reports to leave meaningful data. Thankfully its very easy.
