Hi Paul,
Before you get into the detail, have a read of this orientation piece on how the web works.
http://www.analog.cx/docs/webworks.html
At 14:19 +0000 2/12/04, Paul Murphy wrote:
Ideally I want to know how many times the files have downloaded but I know I can't get that. The only question I need to know is how many times have those files can be accessed.
As far as the web server is concerned -- and therefore as far as Analog is concerned, since Analog just works on what's in the web server's log files -- an "access" IS a "download".
A user asks for the file, and the web server gives it to them. It then has no way of knowing what happens on the user's computer -- whether they just viewed it on screen in their web browser (I assume that's what you mean when you say "accessed"), or whether they subsequently saved it to disc.
From the web server's point of view, they look exactly the same.
Each pdf file consists of 2 pages.
The analog output Request Report shows the following:-
a.pdf has had 434 requests. b.pdf has had 312 requests. c.pdf has had 1111 requests.
My questions are as follows:-
1)Does the number of requests include google etc robot hits? If so, how do I determine the number due to robots?
Yes, it does. A request is a request, whether it's by a human, a robot or otherwise.
You can find out you want -- at least in part -- by using the "user agent" information that may well be provided in your logs. This is the information which says what web browser the user is using, and most well-behaved robots will identify themselves.
You could do one of the following:
* If you want to know overall what proportion of your traffic is
from robots, look at the Operating System Report. It will show
how many requests are from "known robots" (as opposed to from a
Windows machine, Mac OS etc). You may need to add OSREP ON to your configuration file if the
report isn't being generated. Or may user agent information is
not in your logs. (There is also an "other" category for things which Analog has
not automatically identified, though usually it's only a few
percent of the requests to your site, depending on traffic.) * If you want to look specifically at an individual file, or just
your PDF files, you can use the various include and exclude
commands to look at just the files you're interested in.http://www.analog.cx/docs/include.html
In this case, if you've only got three files, and you want to
know exactly what's happening for each of them, then run Analog
three times, each run filtered to give you results for just one
specific file.2)Am I right in assuming that the a.pdf and b.pdf files have been accessed 217 and 156 times respectively (1 request per pdf page, 2 pdf pages per file)?
No. Each request for a file is for the file, not for an individual page. You have no real way of finding out how much of each file a user read. Each PDF document is a single file, so no matter how many pages it has it's still a single request.
3)Why does c.pdf show an odd number of requests if it has 2 pages?
Because the file c.pdf has been requested an odd number of times.
Hope that helps,
Stil
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