Chuck,
Your request makes sense to me now. The host report
probably won't help you. It lists unique hosts one-by-one
but provides no summary for a period in time. There is no
feature in analog that does what you want. Stephen would
need to add it or you would need a workaround.
-- Duke
Chuck Schick wrote:
>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
>>
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