Bob Gonda wrote:
> We have a link to a pdf document (employment application) instead of an HTML
> document. It resides on our server, under our careers domain name. We would
> like to track how may hits that pdf document gets. Is that possible. We are on
> a Macintosh Server. Thanks for your input.
Analog will track requests for any files that your webserver delivers. So the
requests for the pdf should appear in the Request Report. If they don't you
could set your floor lower (docs/floor.html) or create a config file to run a
report on just that file with FILEINCLUDE (docs/include.html).
However, depending on the version of PDF viewer that your clients are using, and
depending on the size, each request for the PDF file may not correspond to
'hits'. Acrobat 4+ will often download PDf documents on page at a time, rather
than completely. Because HTTP protocol is stateless (docs/webworks.html) there
is no way to determine which requests correspond to a given user. So the best
you can do is find out how many requests were made, not how many 'hits' (if my
distinction is clear). Alternately, you could include the total bytes (B) column
in your Request Report and divide it by the size of the file to get an averag
number of full-document-downloads.
HTH,
Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
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