This way you can get stats from your logs but this method is a little bit rudimentary as you are going to get visits from crawlers, bots,… that are not real visits. Parse your logs directly with awk.
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1 #!/bin/sh2 3 4 echo 'Number of unique visitors'5 6 cat /var/log/apache/www.yoursite.com-access.log |awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -l7