At the risk of repeating myself, I understand this - please note I stated "This would give you an idea of visitors per week." I did not say it would give you a quantitative value. Three years ago when I asked the question of determining the number of visitors to a site - Stephen Turner answered me that distinct hosts servered was the closest approximation to this number and pointed out the same or similar article about the inaccuracies associated with giving a quantitative number on that statistic. At the same time analog reports all sorts of other numbers (page requests, requests, etc.) which are subject to some of the same inaccuracies - it seems to me that analog cannot measure the number of requests which came out of a caching server.
The reality is that people want statistics for their sites because they want an idea of the traffic their site is creating. The best I can do is inform and educate people of the qualitative nature of the statistics. At the same time it is a metric that people are using - rightly or wrongly. I have some clients that are selling advertising on their sites and the statistics are a metric for supporting the rates. My request was simply this - Analog will give distinct hosts served on the summary report and I believe it would be a useful feature if that could be broken out on a time report basis. I receive a lot of pressure from clients to switch to using programs like Urchin, Webtrends or Livestats because it tells them what they want to hear, I mention that because these are the issues that I have to address. I think that Analog and Report Magic are great products and even more phenomenal is that they are free. Chuck Schick Warp 8, Inc. 303-421-5140 www.warp8.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy Wadsack Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [analog-help] Distinct hosts served. Chuck Schick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thursday, July 11, 2002 4:31 PM): > I realize that. But I can get number of requests listed by week in a weekly > report, ditto for other values like bytes transferred, page requests, etc. > I think it would be useful to have distinct hosts served listed by week. > This would give you an idea of visitors per week. Which is one of the most > requested numbers that people want. http://www.analog.cx/docs/faq.html#faq128 -- Jeremy Wadsack Wadsack-Allen Digital Group +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 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 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
