Tom Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Can anyone tell me if it is possible to establish the amount of time > a user spends on a site with Analog?
It's not possible to tell the amount of time user spends on a site with any tool - HTTP is stateless, and there's no way for you to tell whether I spend 45 seconds or 45 minutes to read a page on your site. > I believe this reporting is offered by software such as WebTrends, Webtrends is more than happy to tell you whatever you want to hear if you hand them large amounts of cash. Whether you should believe them is another matter entirely, but obviously, if you've paid them all that money, it's much easier to convince yourself to believe them than it is to ignore them. > which does this by means of cookies to indentify unique users, then > tracking their requests. I think there is a 30 min timeout period > after which it is assumed the user has left the site. And there's the magic word - "assumed". > Can I get some kind of report like this from Analog? If not how can I > get this information for my client? You could consider making it up - if it makes him feel good, and it's what he wants to hear..... On the other hand, you could ask him what it is he really wants to know. What does he expect that information to tell him about his site? What decisions will he make based on that information. If he knows what questions he expects to answer with that information, then there may be a way to answer the question with the data that is actually in the log files. Having said all that, if your web servers support "sessions" (ASP sessions on IIS, for example), you could consider logging cookies, and using the ASPSESSIONID cookie as a User, for example, and display the First and Last Date/Time columns in the User report. But you'd be far better off using the OnSessionStart and OnSessionEnd events in your application to log this kind of information to a separate Log file, rather than trying to get it from your log files. Aengus +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 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 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
