Tim Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Thursday, October 02, 2003 9:23 AM):
> Jeremy Wadsack wrote: >> Tim Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wednesday, October 01, 2003 12:02 PM): >>>1. I (meaning the marketing folks) would like to get a breakdown of >>>search engines by query (where are people looking for ProductX coming >>>from?), and also a breakdown of queries by search engine (most Googlers >>>are looking for which product?). >> >> You can do this by specifying individual search terms or engines with >> a REFINCLUDE command and generating a single report for each item you >> want to inspect. See http://analog.cx/docs/include.html for details on >> the command. >> >> See http://analog.cx/docs/faq.html#faq128 for reasons why this isn't >> available as a single report. > I guess in order to keep analog's report generation fast, I can do a > little extra work myself. :) However, it does mean that I may be > running analog a couple dozen times, so I might end up spending just as > much time crunching data as I would have if analog did all the > cross-indexing. :( And now the results are spread amongst multiple > report pages, which isn't as convenient. Well the reasoning behind the author's decisions not to do these reports is that it's no faster to automate it within Analog than it is to automate it outside of Analog. And most of the time you really don't need to produce multivariate reports on *all* the data, so you can actually save time by selecting what data to look at. > If this is "the final word" on the matter, it would potentially be useful > if analog wrote an intermediate results file (like AWStats does) that all > subsequent reports would get generated from. My site is relatively > small, and I suppose I could build all the reports I want in under ten > minutes. But surely there are others with much larger sites that would > benefit from separate data analysis and report creation steps. See http://analog.cx/docs/cache.html. But note that you can't apply BROWINCLUDE or REFINCLUDE commands to data from a cache file. >>>2. I (meaning my "stat geek" alter ego) would like to get a breakdown of >>>browser by OS (which browsers are Windows people using?), and also OS by >>>browser (are Netscape people mostly Windows or Mac users?). >> >> Same as above. Except use the BROWINCLUDE command with appropriate >> patterns. You might need to check the source code for patterns used >> for these reports (especially OS). > One shouldn't need to have the knowledge to read source code just to get > a report that seems so obvious to webmasters. Storing these patterns in > a text file would make it a little simpler, and might allow for more > flexible customization. As an added benefit, I could set up a nightly > job to get the latest definitive browser list, so my stats accurately > report the newest browsers. I agree with you on this one. But I am not the author. ;-) > I'm already using one of the comprehensive robot lists. Since > they're _already_ defined as robots in the config, a simple > "BROWEXCLUDE robots" seems obvious. Why should I have to define > all of them twice, and perhaps miss updating one of the lists > properly? I am not certain, but I believe this may be on the wishlist. -- Jeremy Wadsack Wadsack-Allen Digital Group +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 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 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
