Mike Vislocky wrote:
> We get 10 - 20 people a day visiting our site. It is very, very specialized
> and has no appeal to the general public. There's gold in them thar logs
> that cannot be recognized by a graph or bar chart.
To which Massimo responded:
> I agree with you: reading raw logs can be very useful. And Jeremy is
> right too, of course; you need time to do it...
And Mike replied:
> Its refreshing to get a thoughtful answer instead of an explanation
> of why I don't really want what I asked for...
I my own defense, I didn't know you were looking at log files of less
than 100 lines a day. I work with much larger sites and still have
people asking the same thing -- "I want individual details of all the
requests of the 100,000 people who visited my site each day." Which
really is useless because it tells you very little. However, I see that
in your situation the log files are a gold mine. And as Stephen said,
for your needs, reading the logs by hand is probably much more effective
than anything an analysis program could provide.
The one other piece of advice I'd contribute is that if you know the
host address (or other unique identifying data of the visitor) you could
use grep to create a subset of the requests in your logfile and then see
them in the original request order.
HTH,
--
Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
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