Dave Witzel wrote:
> i suppose that is true, though i hazard to guess that most analog users are
> looking at the stats, not because they care about load on their server, but
> because they are estimating site impact in relation to users. we are using
> server stats as a proxy for actually knowing what the users are doing (as
> opposed to relevantknowledge or other groups who try to monitor what users
> are doing). i think this is valid and really critical for sites (like ours)
> that have to fight hard to get budget. with all its weaknesses, i consider
> the session number a reasonable (and accessible) indicator of user
> attention. i don't need statistics that are 100% accurate as much as
> statistics that are available and meaningful...
>
> i'd be interested in hearing stories from other folks about how they apply
> their web statistics. i'll be glad to summarize for the list if others are
> interested.
we host around 300 sites now, and use analog for all
of them. i'm not sure how our clients use their
stats; i'd guess that half of the clients read
the stats, and pay the most attention to the
basic numbers: requests and pages per month.
i haven't activated any session counting (frankly,
i didn't know that existed), but i probably will
do so soon.
i personally use page requests as the single most
important number to gauge site "popularity".
if i want to look at areas of a site, i use
the directory report.
as a hosting service, our company is most
interested in total requests and total bytes,
as we bill for bandwidth over a certain amount.
several of our sites are highly complex and
CGI-dependent, and analog doesn't handle (complex)
CGI sites very well. i use my own logprocessing
program for those sites.
analog is a great program; i'm impressed by
all of it, but maybe the most by how -fast- it is.
so that's how i use it...
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