Michael Roberts wrote:
> Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
>
> > Jaume Teixi wrote:
> >
> > > a. there are plans to make real stats ? f.ex. if you log and generate
> > > stats on a dedicated machine..
> >
> > What do you mean "real stats". I think most people who use Analog consider
> > the statistics pretty 'real' (at least compared to the numbers produces by
> > some commercial products :).
>
> I think maybe he means "real-time". As in, have a report which shows the
> up-to-the-minute stats. Jaume, you could kind of get that now simply by
> running stats every couple of minutes. If you cache the DNS queries, Analog
> runs pretty quickly, so you wouldn't necessarily have too much overhead.
>
> I could also imagine a kind of mod_analog which would function as a log
> processor and always have current totals in memory. Then a hit to a stats
> page would cause mod_analog to create a report reflecting those. I have no
> idea what the overhead would be, but it seems more trouble than it would be
> worth.
The form interface that ships with Analog provides this kind of ability. It runs
analog on the logs to produce the report you request. However, for many sites,
log processing requires too many resources and is too time consuming to make
this feasable.
Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
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