--- Stephen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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.

Hmmm...I guess that is possible that a massive spike
in visitation could cause these quirky results.

> 
> > 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.

Yep, I'm looking at the request report. I can ask my
webdesigner and my webhost for the exact setup but my
understanding is that the page in question will only
come up after something has been submitted - it's a
"Thanks for submitting info" page! 577 vs 53 seems to
be a cause for concern. Something is amiss.

Thanks for your help.
 
> -- 
> 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)
> 
>
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