Enhancing Geographic Reports
SmarterStats uses a very efficient and accurate Geographic engine based on databases
provided by MaxMind. These databases are very accurate and are able to correctly identify most
traffic hitting your server. Because geo-location data changes frequently, SmarterStats
will release a new update of these databases with every minor release of SmarterStats.
For those requiring constantly up-to-date geo-location data, MaxMind makes available
a premium database that is updated monthly. In addition, the premium database takes
into account dial-up services like AOL and Earthlink.
Click here
for the MaxMind premium database compatible with SmarterStats
For questions regarding the premium MaxMind GeoIP City Database, please click here. SmarterTools does not directly support the MaxMind
databases.
Instructions for installing premium database updates
- Download the latest Binary Format distribution of the Region database
- Using a product like WinZip or WinRar, extract the file to a temporary directory
- Locate a file named something similar to GeoIPCity-###.dat and rename it to GeoIPCity.dat
- Copy the file to your C:\program files\SmarterTools\SmarterStats\Service directory