Detailed explanation of how NGINX counts the website's PV, UV, and independent IP

Nginx: PV, UV, independent IP

Everyone who makes websites knows that they often need to check the website's PV, UV and other website access data. Of course, if the website has a CDN, the nginx local log is meaningless. The following is a statistical analysis of the log access data of the nginx website;

concept:

UV (Unique Visitor): Independent visitor, each independent Internet access computer (based on cookies) is regarded as a visitor, the number of visitors who visit your website within one day (00:00-24:00). The same cookie is only counted once per day.
PV (Page View): Visits, that is, page views or clicks. Each visit of a user to the website is recorded once. The user visits the same page multiple times, and the visit value is accumulated
Counting independent IPs: The same IP address is only counted once between 00:00 and 24:00. Friends who do website optimization are most concerned about this.

First, let's state the environment. This time, we are running nginx version 1.7, and the backend Tomcat is running a dynamic interactive program (user authentication is required. If it is a static page, the cache value cannot be captured, and $http_cookie is empty). That's it;

nginx log file configuration

http {
  include mime.types;
  default_type application/octet-stream;
  log_format main '$remote_addr - [$time_local] "$request" '
            ' - $status "User_Cookie:$guid" ';
 #User_Cookie is the log display character, $guid is a variable, the specific content is defined below, you can also write $http_cookie in the log format to display the complete cookie content<br>
  sendfile on;
  keepalive_timeout 65;
    upstream backserver {
    ip_hash;
    server 1.1.2.2:8080;
    server 1.1.2.3:8080;
}
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name localhost;
    #if ( $http_cookie ~* "(.*)$") matches all contentif ( $http_cookie ~* "CSID=([A-Z0-9]*)"){
        set $guid $1;
    } #Only match CSID character information, here is a regular expression<br>
    access_log logs/host.access.log main;
     location ~* ^(.*)$ {
       #limit_req zone=allips burst=1 nodelay;
 
       proxy_pass http://backserver;
       proxy_set_header Host $host;
       proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
       proxy_set_header REMOTE-HOST $remote_addr;
       proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
       client_max_body_size 8m;
       }
    error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
      root html;
    }
}

Note: The values in $http_cookie are cookie values, separated by ";"

Log output format

192.168.40.2 - [02/Nov/2016:15:44:35 +0800] "GET /wcm/app/main/refresh.jsp?r=1478072325778 HTTP/1.1" - 200 "User_Cookie:7F00000122A5597C46607B1C0A7EC016"
192.168.40.2 - [02/Nov/2016:15:44:35 +0800] "GET /webpic/W0201611/W020161102/W020161102566715167404.jpg HTTP/1.1" - 200 "User_Cookie:7F00000122A5597C46607B1C0A7EC016"
119.255.31.109 - [02/Nov/2016:15:44:36 +0800] "GET /wcm/app/main/refresh.jsp?r=1478072510132 HTTP/1.1" - 200 "User_Cookie:7F000001237921BE9237838AEC65704D"
119.255.31.109 - [02/Nov/2016:15:44:36 +0800] "GET /wcm/app/message/message_query_service.jsp?READFLAG=0&MSGTYPES=1%2C2%2C3 HTTP/1.1" - 200 "User_Cookie:7F000001237921BE9237838AEC65704D"
192.168.40.2 - [02/Nov/2016:15:44:37 +0800] "GET /wcm/app/message/message_query_service.jsp?READFLAG=0&MSGTYPES=1%2C2%2C3 HTTP/1.1" - 200 "User_Cookie:7F00000123D3BF2345115EAAC21F71E0"
192.168.40.2 - [02/Nov/2016:15:44:37 +0800] "GET /wcm/app/message/message_query_service.jsp?READFLAG=0&MSGTYPES=1%2C2%2C3 HTTP/1.1" - 200 "User_Cookie:7F00000123EF73896DF98EDA9950944E"
192.168.40.2 - [02/Nov/2016:15:44:37 +0800] "GET /wcm/app/message/message_query_service.jsp?READFLAG=0&MSGTYPES=1%2C2%2C3 HTTP/1.1" - 200 "User_Cookie:7F00000123FE0F9C397E1A8F0C4F044B"
192.168.40.2 - [02/Nov/2016:15:44:37 +0800] "GET /wcm/app/main/refresh.jsp?r=1478072511427 HTTP/1.1" - 200 "User_Cookie:7F00000123A465B7EA1DE0AF0AE671B7"
119.255.31.109 - [02/Nov/2016:15:44:38 +0800] "GET /wcm/app/message/message_query_service.jsp?READFLAG=0&MSGTYPES=1%2C2%2C3 HTTP/1.1" - 200 "User_Cookie:7F00000123D89B11302DF80AE773C900"

PV Statistics

The number of visits to a single link address can be counted:

[root@localhost logs]# grep index.shtml host.access.log | wc -l

Total PV:

[root@localhost logs]# awk '{print $6}' host.access.log | wc -l

Dedicated IP

[root@localhost logs]# awk '{print $1}' host.access.log | sort -r | uniq -c | wc -l

UV Statistics

[root@localhost logs]# awk '{print $10}' host.access.log | sort -r | uniq -c | wc -l

Cookie Test Page

Regarding the type of cookies, you can use the following HTML code to edit and add the cookies you need to type:

#index.html
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gbk">
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="10"> //For testing purposes, refresh the page every 10 seconds</head>
<body>
<h1>test.test.com domain test</h1>
The cookies for this domain are listed below<br>
<p>
<script>
document.cookie="guid=A1UD8E5512451111111111"; //Kind cookies, appenddocument.cookie="city=beijing"; //Kind cookies, appenddocument.write(document.cookie); //List existing</script>
</p>
</body>
</html>

The above is the full content of this article. I hope it will be helpful for everyone’s study. I also hope that everyone will support 123WORDPRESS.COM.

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