> Am I correct in thinking that the GET or POST for each request is junked
Yep- Stephen explained that to me a couple months ago. The philosophy
seems to be that GET/HEAD/POST aren't usually different enough to worry
about. Designing your site so that nothing "self-posts" is probably good
for other reasons too.
> I was considering "Web Trends"
My experience with WT was horrible. We had things set up so our
customers (we're a web host) could log in and generate reports. The system
worked OK- although not perfectly- when there were 10 users, but when we
started pushing over 40 it started to bog down for no apparent reason.
When we hit 100 it totally collapsed. At that point, it would fail to
respond to requests for reports, and often would "mix" log files from one
site to the other. The problem wasn't in running reports, it was in the
"Real Time Analysis" system it had to poll the log files, which are hosted
on (much less troublesome) Unix/Apache boxes accessed via samba.
After a year of them telling me my hardware wasn't capable enough
(despite the system monitors never showing excessive or even moderate use
of any resource except during actual report generation) and numerous
promises that the latest version upgrade would take care of things (but
which often broke other things or messed up customer "profiles") I was
finally put into contact with a real programmer. They acknowledged that
there was a fundamental problem with FastTrends- their proprietary
database system, and that the solution was to turn off real-time analysis.
(which for our system was completely unacceptable, but that's what we did)
The problem was supposed to be fixed in the next version, but surprise-
that didn't happen.
The sales staff apologized, and renewed our license for a year- gratis.
Then they suggested I upgrade to their enterprise system, but could not
assure me it wouldn't have the same problems. (and the cost made me wary)
More importantly, the numbers that webtrends generated seemed to be
"off" from what Analog would report on the same logs, and what a grep
guestimate would show. Their "User Session" tracking is almost total BS,
although the problems I saw may have been caused by the other strangeness.
This is my two cents anyway.
-=Jim=-
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