Duke: We are running reports that are cumulative - they go back in time for up to three years. One of the outputs is a weekly report. What I am looking for is a column in the weekly, monthly, daily report for distinct hosts served.
Go to this link and click on Monthly report. http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/webstats/reportmagic/ The columns that Stephen is showing are - Number of Requests, Number of Page Request, and Number of bytes transferred. I would like an option of adding a column that would give the number of Distinct hosts served by week. We are trying to automate Analog/Report magic for hundreds of sites. The user (our clients) does not really select a time period - they just log into their site stats and look at their up to date stats. Our clients expect us to provide the info to them. I will look at a host report - but I do not think that we want that. Chuck Schick Warp 8, Inc. 303-421-5140 www.warp8.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Duke Hillard Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 9:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [analog-help] Distinct hosts served. 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 > >+------------------------------------------------------------------------ >| This is the analog-help mailing list. 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