Stephen Turner wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Willem van Asperen wrote:
>
> > Since we are using analog to process our logfiles - and we are very happy to
> > do so - we spent a lot of time explaining why we cannot have "number of
> > visits".
> >
> > Looking closely at the logfile, there is the field ASPSESSIONID... Doesn't
> > this give a unique number to the current session... and can't this be used
> > to give me the number of visits?
> >
> > Is this an IIS feature that just isn't included in the analog analysis since
> > most http-servers do not have this, or am I missing something?
> >
>
> Define it to be a user. Then the number of 'users' will measure the number
> of session-id's.
>
> This may or may not be the same as the number of "sessions" as you are
> imagining them though, for a whole variety of reasons.
>
This feature is available on most servers, now. Apache has a mod_session module or
something. ASP can use cookie based session id's or URL based session id's.
However, as Stephen said, be careful that you know what you are reporting.
Specifically (and a lot of this is in the FAQ, and the analog doc "How the Web
Works") session id's may change or not change properly because of things like
proxies, caches, multiple users on one computer, etc.
When quoting numbers from a user report as above, just be sure that you are aware
that it may not be unique visits, session or anything else that marketing wants.
On the otherhand if they just want some number, say something like "we server 15
712 session ids this month." :)
HTH,
Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
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