Hi Stephen... Thanks that's very useful - a lucid and truly helpful explanation compared to what I had before -):
Best, Paul Very best wishes, Paul Richards Gateway Team - Statistics and Search Internal ext: 89354 External phone number: 020 7208 9354 Room 301, 35 Marylebone High St, London W1U 4PX my page on connect.gateway -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Turner Sent: 15 October 2004 18:59 To: Support for analog web log analyzer Subject: RE: [analog-help] Guidance sought on strange referrer report On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Paul Richards-Training wrote: > Hi Stephen, > So, can I be clear that essentially when we talk about a "req" in the > "referrer report", we are saying something like the following (Bearing > in mind all the caveats that not all referrers are recorded in the > logs)- > > "A single request in the referrer report is a log of a single request > FOR a single web page COMING FROM a single referring page. So it's a > record of the number of times requests for pages on your site have > come FROM another page on another site. The referrer report does not > deal with file requests but looks at page requests explicitly." > > Or is this too simple an explanation of it? > Too complex an explanation, I think. :-) I think it's simpler to look at it the other way round. The Referrer Report lists how many times each URL was a referrer. It may have been the referrer for a page or an image on your site. Maybe it would be worth your while looking at the first few lines of your raw logfiles. You'll see the referrers in there, and which files they referred to. The Referrer Report just counts up all those. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "Low Priced Cambridge Clare College. Big selection at eBay UK!" (Ad after Google search for Clare College Cambridge) +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +- | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +- http://www.bbc.co.uk/ - World Wide Wonderland This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
