On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
>
>
> "Madley, Paul" wrote:
>
> > We're trying to figure out how to get Analog to give stats per session -
> > i.e. For it to think to itself "ah, dialup1.domain.net came at 13:50 and
> > finished at 14:12, so that must be one hit"
> >
> > Is there any way of doing this (please say "yes", manual analysis is boring
> > me sensless!)
>
> No. Because of the nature of the web there is no way to tell that a given ip or
> hostname is the same user. See the item in the Analog FAQ about this and the
> page "How the web works" in Analog docs for a complete explanation.
>
On the other hand, if the people are actually logging in, using cookie
authentication, or somehow by other means, then their username will turn
up in the log files, ready ofr analysis!
If this is the case, then a simple grep of the logfiles for that name will
give a decent walkthrough of what that user did. OK this only works if you
are authenticating users, but it would be worth building a script to
calculate what the average path through a website is, or how much time a
user stays on a given news story, etc. Has anyone done this?
Alejandro Fernandez,
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