Goaccess recipes

Published Apr 8, 2026

Goaccess is a raw log server analyzer. I’ve installed it on macOS using brew install goaccess.

To generate useful website analytics, the incantation below:

goaccess mylogfile \
	-o report.html \
	--log-format=COMBINED \
	--ignore-crawlers \
	--unknowns-as-crawlers \
	--anonymize-ip \
	--anonymize-level=2 \
	--geoip-database=dbip-country-lite-2026-04.mmdb \
	--static-file=.webp \
	--static-file=.php \
	--all-static-files

The flags help as follows:

--ignore-crawlers and --unknowns-as-crawlers excludes known crawlers, and assumes unknown user agents to be crawlers;
--anonymize-ip in combination with --anonymize-level=2 replaces the last 16 bits of the IP addresses with zeros;
--geop-database points to an MMDB database, in this case DBIP’s IP to Country Lite;
--static-file defines more file extensions to treat as static, and --all-static-files includes static files that have query parameters in their URL.