Stephen Turner wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
>
> > The first time we ran analog on our 18 months of log files, it took nearly
> > 13 hours doing DNS lookups. This didn't surprise me as the report came back
> > saying we had 23,943 distinct hosts. I happened to look at it yesterday
> > (after a couple weeks of cfg tweeking) and it said only 6,034 distinct hosts
> > served. Today it says 8,092. I really don't believe that out of 7901
> > requests yesterday, that we had more than 2000 hosts who had never vistied
> > our system before (that's less than four requests per host, which means
> > every one did not completely load our index page).
>
> It's not impossible. We get about one new host every ten requests, and one of
> the most popular pages (my backgammon page) has lots of different graphics on
> it. Why not look in the logfile to see what a typical host might do? Maybe
> they don't even come in via your front page?
>
Could be I just remember the wrong numbers. We're now adding about 100 new hosts a
day which is reasonable.
>
> > If that is true, and we
> > did have 2000 new hosts yesterday, then our total should be a lot higher
> > (more like 25,000) (or our index page needs to be changed to make people
> > stay :). I don't have any host aliases in our cfg file. What affects this
> > number and why might it have changed?
> >
>
> All sorts of things affect it. For a start any INCLUDEs and EXCLUDEs. Are you
> analysing the same lines as in the previous case when you had 24k hosts?
>
Hmm, yes. I did exclude all of our client sites from our logs. I suppose that
would affect it a bit :).
Thanks
--
Jeremy Wadsack
OutQuest Magazine
a Wadsack-Allen publication
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