> It seems a lot of this could be done with report customization settings in Analog or
>Report Magic (although some of the reports you mentioned
> tie log data to database data which really is a custom process and not applicable to
>Analog):
[snip lots of maybe-this-would-work]
Yes. I wrote that report in about 30 hours all told over the last two years. How
long would it take (1) to cobble it all together with baling
twine and Analog and then (2) modify it each time the set of "interesting pages"
changed? I'm not convinced that Analog is the tool for the job
in this case. I'm not even a tiny bit familiar with Report Magic so I'll reserve
judgment on that aspect.
> and build custom
> pages with lists of "interesting hits". I think this could be added to Analog fairly
>easily, kind of a query report, but instead of showing
> top results by floor, it would just show specific items.
I agree. That much of my report would work pretty well in Analog, with a list of
interesting hits. Actually you could do it with aliases, as you
noted below somewhere, but it seems difficult to me to maintain.
> > Then we total up
> > clickthroughs. We analyze how many hits are done by signed-on users as
> > opposed to anonymous ones.
>
> This would be a simple comparison of the General Summary and the User Report.
Well, it would be except that our signon mechanism is quite idiosyncratic.
> > We do incredibly detailed analysis of number of hits to each advertiser's
> > vital information, and searches executed on them, and similar but less
> > detailed analysis of the tools searched for. (Odd. That seems backward but
> > that's life, I guess.)
>
> This could be done with specific runs of Analog using REQINCLUDE statements and
>ARGSINCLUDE statements. Then combining it, via a script, with
> your other reports.
Not a chance that that would be better than what I'm doing now.
> > Total hits: 27638
>
> Hmm.. Is this just the successful page requests (in Analog terms)? I'm worried about
>running sites that log this many per hour. I realize your
> market is small, so you may never reach that level of traffic, but what about
>solutions for sites that do?
Successful pages only (graphics already filtered out, as they don't add information at
this point.)
Don't know about large traffic. Big, big database devices? :-)
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