Thanks, I have checked the status codes.

Using either grep or a Perl script the reporting of status code 200 with
analog is down.

eg parsing the log file for /\"GET.*HTTP\/1.\d\" 200/ in a Perl script
produces a greater figure for 200 status codes than Analog.

Maybe my Perl regular expressions are not correct?

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen Turner
Sent: 07 October 2001 12:01
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [analog-help] Successful request under reporting


On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Dan Gray wrote:
>
> However when I use other analysis tools Analog appears to be seriously
(and
> I mean >20%) under reporting
> the number of successful requests for pages.
>
> [...]
>
> I have read the online analog docs, although these are helpful they do not
> help me track down the reasons for the page reporting differences.  Is
there
> any documentation to show exactly what strings Analog parses log files for
> within its definition of successful page requests.
>
> Obviously these stats depend entirely on what you define your search which
> is why more detailed info on how Analog
> would be useful.
>

docs/defns.html says exactly what analog counts. For a start, check the
HTTP status codes. Some analysers (eg webalizer, I think) count redirections
in the total. I think this is very broken, because if you redirect to one of
your own pages (which is the most common sort of redirection) you
effictively count that request twice.

--
Stephen Turner     Cambridge, UK
http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC,
2/Jul/01

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