Is there any way of utilising the 'ASPSESSION' cookies IIS sends out on my
website (www.hvhs.ac.nz) for some reason?
Have fun,
J.. :)
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Jonathan Ah Kit
Webmaster - Hutt Valley High School - Lower Hutt - New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Aengus Lawlor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 2:58 AM
Subject: Re: [analog-help] Define Time Interval for Unique Hosts
> Heather McDonald wrote:
>
> >Analog shows the total number of unique hosts in any given log file. My
> >problem is that our logs file spans a whole month and I wanted to
> >'guess' the number of visitors to my site. Is there any way I can set
> >up
> >
> >Analog to treat the IP as a new IP every 3 hours or so? I checked the
> >mailing list but the only way I found was to run the reports for that
> >particular period. I cannot run 3x8x30 reports in a month. If I did
> >run individual daily reports, then when I needed weekly and monthly
> >reports the results would not total the unique hosts the same. There
> >has to be another way. Someone please help.
>
> As long as you understand that it's only a guess anyway, just do the
> hard work for some sample daily logs and come up with a multiplier that
> reflects the traffic patterns at your site, and then just apply it to
> your future logs.
>
> Note that if you get much traffic from any ISP that uses a proxy
> server, you are likely to find the proxy servers IP address in your log
> file constantly, whether there are 10 people from that ISP visiting
> your site through the day or 10,000. On the other hand if the ISP uses
> a large bank of proxy servers, a single "visitor" may show up with a
> number of different IP addresses in a single "visit". And if it's a
> caching proxy server, you may be getting "visitors" who never reach
> your log files at all.
>
> Any implications you draw from such guesswork is not worth the time it
> takes to make them. IP addresses just don't represent what you are
> trying to measure. Short of using a cookie, there is no way to identify
> an individual visitor (and cookies aren't exactly foolproof in this
> respect either).
>
> Aengus
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