My problem is I've configured Analog to read cookies as unique users. While this has worked great in the past, a second cookie has been added on my site. So now I have two cookie values getting reported in the user report, but the main problem is the new cookie value is not a constant so I believe Analog is reporting a lot more users than what it should because every time this cookie value changes, I believe I get another user. (My guess is I'm getting double the correct amount.)
While searching through your mailing list archives and faq's, I found what I thought was a possible solution in the user alias command, but, when I used it in my analog.cfg file and re-ran Analog on my log files, Analog still reported the incorrect number as before, though the user report now only listed the first cookie value. So I was wondering if using the user alias command, only affected the appearance of the Analog generated report and not the actual data itself?
Also, I wanted to make sure I am interpreting the function of the user exclude command correctly. From what I've read on the Analog site, I get the impression that using the user exclude command or any exclude command for that matter, takes all matching log file lines completely out of the report meaning that these particular lines are ignored when processing the data. Is my interpretation correct?
And, just in case you were wondering what my log file looks like in regards to the cookies and how I'm using the user alias command, here is the code:
Possible Cookie Formats: (From my logfiles)
poppedup=yes;+ASPSESSIONIDQGGGQNDG=ILBNHIJBCOIKKLKCLCCGONGM
BEV=63.25.78.222.13445966995796876;+poppedup=yes;+ASPSESSIONIDQGGGQNDG=FMBNHIJBLFGPHJHGCMBBAFCA
ASPSESSIONIDQGGGQNDG=FHBNHIJBJAGPJGGEKDEMIAHJ
ASPSESSIONIDQGGGQNDG=HGBNHIJBCPPGPPOGOBLMAAAK;+poppedup=yes
poppedup=yes
(Also can be nothing, such as: - )
User Alias Code: (I want to compare only the value of the ASPSESSION Cookie to distinquish different users)
USERALIAS *ASPSESSION*=*;* $3
USERALIAS *ASPSESSION*=* $3
Thanks in advance!
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Jami Ryan
Web Developer
Automation Creations, Inc.
http://www.aciwebs.com
