On Thursday, December 02, 2004 6:05 PM [GMT], Leonard Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Partial answers... >> >> At 06:19 AM 12/2/04, Paul Murphy wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I have a website. >>> On that website are various pages. >>> On one of those pages x.html there are 3 hyperlinks to 3 separate >>> pdf files (1 per hyperlink). Call them file a.pdf, b.pdf and c.pdf. >>> >>> When I view the Request Report, I want to see the number of separate >>> accesses to each of the 3 pdf files. >>> 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. >>> >>> 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? If the Robot reads the .pdf file (And google probably does - it includes .pdf files in it's results), then the number of requests. You can usually recognize a robot by it's Browser string, so you can run a report that uses BROWINCLUDE to only analyse requests that came from those browsers that you identify as Robots. >>> 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. Hits = accessing a file. It does not matter how many pages that >> file has. It does take time for Acrobat to render each page. Acrobat can download parts of a .pdf document as a user scrolls through it. So if I open a 6 page PDF file, Acrobat on my machine may make multiple requests to the server as I scroll through the .PDF file. I have no idea how or when Acrobat decided to make each separate request - if I Search a .pdf document, I'd be surprised if Acrobat requested each page individually, but I've never looked in my logs to find out. (Off hand, I don't know if I have any .pdf files on my servers). >>> 3)Why does c.pdf show an odd number of requests if it has 2 pages? >> >> See #2. c.pdf has 1111 attempted accesses. Not everyone reads the whole document - maybe only 500 people read the whole document, sending 2 request each (if that's what Acrobat Reader does) and 111 stopped after page 1? Or maybe some people were using a version of Acrobat Reader that is configured to get the whole document, instead of just getting a page at a time. This is what the Help file in Acrobat Reader 5.0 says: Enabling Fast Web View With Fast Web View, the Web server sends only the requested page of information to the user, not the entire PDF document. As a reader of the PDF document, you do not have to do anything to make this happen; it is communicated in the background between Acrobat Reader and the Web server. If you want the entire PDF document to continue downloading in the background while you view the first page of requested information, be sure Allow Background Downloading is selected in the Web Browser Options section of the preferences. Or maybe some of them weren't use Acrobat Reader? http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php is an alternative PDF reader. I don't know if it handles partial loads. Aengus +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 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 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
