If you are interested in only those persons who enter through the front door, your front page counter (or is it a FrontPage counter?) might be all that you need. But, if you want to know about all traffic at your site, then Analog will provide information which is more comprehensive.
Analog analyzes all activity recorded in the log file maintained by your Web server. Your front page counter records information only about visits to the page on which it resides. Thus, Analog is more thorough. Remember, some of your visitors might have been to your site before. If they bookmarked pages on an earlier visit, and go directly to those pages today (bypassing your front page counter), then your front page counter won't be able to record their visit to your site. And, some of your visitors might be referred by friends. So, even a person who has never been to your site might bypass your front page (and its counter) and go directly to one or more pages within your site. But, this activity is (normally) recorded in the Web server log and Analog can analyze it. BTW, since version 2.11, Stephen Turner has made many improvements to Analog and fixed at least one security issue as well. You might want to consider upgrading to the latest version. -- Duke Hillard Denis Duffy wrote: > My front page counter showed 59 visits yesterday. But Analog (I'm > using version 2.11/Unix) showed 214 distinct hosts served. Which do > you feel is the better gauge of my approximate daily visits? > > > > Thanks, Dan > +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
