On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Berigan, Matthew wrote: > Hi! > > Somehow this has to do with "referrers" I'm sure BUT how the heck can I > report on a given page's links and how they are used. In-other-words, I need > to show the popularity of the paths taken from my home page at oci.wi.gov. > We're arguing over "real estate" and I need to show which are the popular > paths and which are the unpopular paths. > > And besides, it is good to know the flow so one can see what works (or > doesn't). > > Example of log (I collect the data) > 192.48.245.20 - - [30/Sep/2002:07:20:25 -0500] "GET /news.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 > 2816 " http://oci.wi.gov/oci_home.htm <http://oci.wi.gov/oci_home.htm> " > "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)" > > > It seems that this is kinda icky. It appears that I have to look at EACH of > the destinations that I have on my home page and then find HOW MANY times my > home page was the referral point to EACH of those destinations. > > Am I missing something? Is there a better way? >
With analog, you can restrict the report to one referrer (your home page) with the REFINCLUDE command. Then you can look at the Request Report to see which were the next pages after your home page. But if you habitually want to look at which links are popular, let me plug the company I work for, ClickTracks <http://www.clicktracks.com/>. We have a browser with a built-in statistics program (or is it the other way round?), so that you can browse around your site, and the links are annotated with little bar charts, right on top of the page. It costs $$ but there's a free trial. Now here's hoping the list administrator doesn't kick me off for advertising on a free software mailing list... -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "Reserve your 2 hour delivery time, which means you'll see the same special offers as you would instore" - Sainsbury's internet shopping instructions +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 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/analog-help@;lists.isite.net/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
