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Script to calculate # of requests and bandwidth for file

Posted by dantheman733, 12-17-2010, 04:06 AM

I need to calculate the total bandwidth a file consumes. This would be (total requests)x(image size). The files I want to do this for are images, so I cannot simply use php to track the views (unless I serve the images with php, which I don't want to do). I was thinking of parsing http logs to get this data. Does anyone know of a script out there that will parse a servers http log to calculate the number of requests a particular file has received (you could then get the bandwidth by multiplying by the filesize)? Upon doing that I would also want the data inserted into a mySQL database. Are there any other ways to track the bandwidth consumption of files without having to serve the file as php? Thanks!

Posted by Mike Johnson, 12-17-2010, 02:28 PM

There are a lot of programs out there for analyzing your HTTP traffic. The amount of bandwidth a file has consumed is a very basic metric, so I suspect most of the programs out there will be able to tell you this. You might like to check out AWStats.

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