Charlotte Latimer wrote:
> I am seeing something deeply weird in my analog report and wonder if anyone
> can state the obvious that is undoubtedly staring me in the face.....
> A client has asked for distinct host data on a certain group of pages for a
> monthly period over the last 3 years.
> The structure of the site has changed and used to be simpler, so to start
> with I was lazy and just grepped the logfiles for the right pages. Then I
> ran analog to get the host info etc. What happened was that I got about 2000
> hits and about 1000 distinct hosts. Not likely. Then for last month I ran
> analog directly on the logfiles and got about 1600 hits and 80 distinct
> hosts which I think is much more likely (there's a _lot_ of graphics on
> this). Can anyone postulate what I might have done to scupper the results
> previously? (I know it's not 100% an analog issue, so thanks). tia.
> charl
>
When you grepped the logfiles, you probably found all lines containing the pages
-- whether as a request or a referrer. I would speculate, then, that most of the
site probably came through as those specific pages were referrers for the rest
of the site.
HTH,
Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
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