Absolutely! I'll second Chuck's desire. I've been working hard to wean my agency staff of the notion that "requests" tells them much more than how busy visitors to the site are. I've been focusing my effort trying to get a better understanding as to whether we're doing a more/better job of reaching our constituency -while- increasing the number of items available on our web site AND the frequency with which all of those items are being accessed. It is all nothing more complex than knowing whether we are attracting a wider audience and what the audience is looking at.
Sure, I know that the numbers lie and the only way to get "real" numbers is to build more into our site but I think Chuck is simply asking if it is possible to get a frequency listing of IP addresses by a specified time period. I don't believe that this is built into Analog (and I l-o-v-e Analog because it beats the heck out of WebTrends) but maybe folks on this list have ideas for other means to generate the frequency of IP addresses by period that Chuck and I desire. I'd buy SAS and crunch the data though there but maybe somebody has another suggestion???? Thanks Much!! Matthew Berigan, Records Management Supervisor Office of the Commissioner of Insurance Phone: (608) 266-0110 [EMAIL PROTECTED] oci.wi.gov -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Schick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 9:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [analog-help] Distinct hosts served. 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 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 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 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
