On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, David Nicholson wrote: > My webhost uses Ananlog 5.22 > Two separate issues: > > 1) I've noticed the following changes in my webstats > the past three days: > > Monday Average successful requests for pages per day: > 871 (470) > Tuesday Average successful requests for pages per day: > 882 (442) > Wednesday Average successful requests for pages per > day: 892 (412) > > How could the overall daily average be increasing > while the trend for the rolling daily average for the > most recent seven days has been downward AND lower > than the overall average over the past few days? I > checked the FAQ and help archives to no avail. Am I > misreading the results or is this an error? >
It can happen. The rolling average will decrease if this week's number is lower than last week's corresponding number (which has just rolled out). This week's number could still be higher than the long-run average, which will pull the long-run average up. In your example, maybe Wednesday's figure was 900, but last Wednesday's figure was 1000. But the best thing to do is to turn on the Daily Report. Then you will see the exact number for each day, and you'll be able to work out where the averages are coming from. > 2) My understanding from reading FAQ about Analog is > that the number of page requests is suppossed to equal > just that, the number of times a page is requested. > What troubles me is that I know one of my pages has > been viewed only 53 times, since I get an email every > time it's viewed (the page is related to submitting an > info request to us). However Analog reports 577 > requests for that page. Why the order of magnitude in > difference? Does page requests actually relate to the > number of times files are requested from a given page > rather than the number of times the page itself is > requested? > If you're looking in the Request Report, it's the number of times the page itself is requested. Are you sure the mail is triggered every time it's viewed? For example, if it's a form, the mail might only be triggered when the form is POSTed, not on an initial GET for the same page. Anyway, the thing to do here is to look in the raw logfiles. Analog only reports what's in there. I'm sure you'll find 577 requests for the page in there. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." (Edsger W. Dijkstra) +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
