I cut my teeth in a very similar way and ended up with the same conclusion webalizer was far more maintainable than AWSTATS. Though the UI on AWstats was definitely pretty nice. At some point I actually had a perl CGI script that I was selling that did basic website analysis (can't find any references to it on the internet quickly).
I still use webalizer on a small site I self-host for my dad.
I cut my teeth in a very similar way and ended up with the same conclusion webalizer was far more maintainable than AWSTATS. Though the UI on AWstats was definitely pretty nice. At some point I actually had a perl CGI script that I was selling that did basic website analysis (can't find any references to it on the internet quickly).
I still use webalizer on a small site I self-host for my dad.