It is a FrontPage counter - I have it set to count each visit to the home page. 1 person = 1 visit, if the person comes back to the Home page it is not counted as a new visit.
I am interested in all the traffic to my site. Today I looked at Analog early this morning which produced this summary report: Total successful requests: 854 Average successful requests per day: 1,442 Total successful requests for pages: 50 Average successful requests for pages per day: 83 Total redirected requests: 6 Number of distinct files requested: 72 Number of distinct hosts served: 122 Total data transferred: 2,102 kbytes Average data transferred per day: 3,553 kbytes How can I have 122 distinct hosts served yet only have 50 requests for pages? The Analog host report shows about 60 AOL hosts (all look similar to this: cache-da01.proxy.aol.com ), and about 60 from various other host addresses. My FrontPage counter indicates about 15 visits. Is my FrontPage counter more accurate than the # of hosts served? Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: Duke Hillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [analog-help] front page counter vs. distinct hosts > 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 > +------------------------------------------------------------------------ > +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 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 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
