I've not seen the other products that you mention
and I don't know if I understand what you mean
when you say time report basis.  Analog creates
a Host Report that lists unique hosts one-by-one
for the time period established by the user.  How
does that report differ from that which you seek?

-- Duke Hillard


Chuck Schick wrote:

>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
>
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