On Sunday, January 01, 2006 6:01 PM [EDT], Andrew Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, didn't make myself too clear. The original log-file generated > by Apache was much more than five lines, it contains one line for > every item on each page visited (images etc.) My Analog Report was > generated from this original file (which is the Summary you see above). > > I then decided to use the 'grep' command to strip down the file to how > many times my index.html page had been viewed in the last day, the > result was 5. > > grep "banner.gif" log-file > new-log-file (I know Banner.gif is only > on my index.html) If you want to know how often your index.html page was accessed, why not grep index.html? There are a number of reasons why banner.gif wouldn't necessarily be requested by everyone who accesses your home page. > Since my original post I've been reading the configuration pages at > www.analog.cx and am getting the impression that Analog will not do quite > what I'm asking, how many people have visited my site. That's not quite what Analog says - it says that, because of the way the web works, you can never be entirely sure how many people have visited your site, no matter what information you have in your log files. > Am I right in thinking that what I've done this evening (stripped down the > log file to show only hits on index.html) and then running Analog against this > truncated file will be the only way to find out the number of visitors I've had? No - you're just wasting your time by grepping your logfile before running Analog (at least in this case). One of the most basic Analog commands is "FILEINCLUDE". If you add "FILEINCLUDE /index.html" to your config file, Analog will report on just the requests for your home page. You can choose to interpret the number of hosts served as the number of visitors, though how "accurate" that is as a metric very much depends on the type of audience that you are serving. You might also want to see if using FILEINCLUDE */banner.gif instead always gives you the same answer. http://analog.cx/docs/include.html Aengus +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general +------------------------------------------------------------------------
