On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Aengus wrote:
>
> You can always do a HOSTINCLUDE to tell analog to only report on a single
> "visitor" (in the special case where a single IP address really represents
> a single reader). Installing Analog and figuring out how to use it will
> take longer than opening your logfile in notepad (or Excel, if you prefer)
> if you only want to do this once, but if you expect to do this sort of
> "targetted eavesdropping" on a regular basis, then taking the time to read
> the Analog documentation would probably be worth your while.
>
Well, it depends in what detail you want to "eavesdrop". It's the job of
analog to produce summary statistics. If you want to see in what order an
individual visitor moved round the site, there is no substitute to looking
in the raw logfiles. Similarly, there are some sorts of inference about what
a visitor was probably doing which a human can make but which a computer
program can't.
--
Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
Statistical Laboratory, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, England
"Your account can only be used for a single internet session at any one
time and for no more than 24 hours in any one day." (NTL terms of use)
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