Hi many thanks for your help I see what you
mean, simple when you know how.
Regards Rosemarie.
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Subject: Re: [analog-help] Starting
up.
Hi Rosemary
As a similar small business user I adopted
Analog for much the same reason on referral from another user.
I use
the basic / standard analog.cfg file as it comes with the package and apart
from adding HOSTNAME "[hooklinks]" and leaving HOSTURL "none" as I am only
using it for desktop information, I just added an * asterisk to add a wildcard
action to the LOGFILE "*.log" command.
This has provided me with all
the basic information to check for pages served, visitors, popular pages,
error pages etc that enables me to gain an understanding of what is happening
with the web site i look after. I am sure there is more information than this
available that may be extracted should it be required, but as a standard .cfg
file it works extremely well when you apply these couple of
changes.
The LOGFILE "*.log" command using the * asterisk allows
multiple logs and individual logs to be analysed without needing to specify
names or numbers, singly or in sequences.
Dependent on who your ISP is
there may be a variation in log file provided, some of mine provide a monthly
'access_log' which can be downloaded at any time or as an archive at the end
of the month.
Other ISPs provide daily logs that are date identified as
'20060121.log' with these they can be collected individually daily or as
opportunity dictates and stored in a folder name for the give month and year.
These are eventually deleted when they exceed reserved serve space as I have
found to my cost in the past. They do also eat into your space if you have a
limited allocation!
This is where the LOGFILE "*.log" command comes in
handy as it is then useful to just drag all the months logs into the Analog
application folder and run Analog and you will get an accumulative report for
all the logs. The date naming convention allows all the years logs to be
analysed by putting 3,6 or 12 monts worth of logs into the application folder.
Its a bit of a pain in some ways but you get the results!
Like wise if
you run the months 'access_log' in the same way the single cfg file will
handle this.
One stage further by renaming the monthly 'access_logs'
after download with a month / year ID (10-2005access.log) you can run an 3.6
or 12 month report by dragging all the files into Analog and running the
program.
I'm sure you will get plenty of advice from those who use the
program in greater depth, but for the average web masters needs, who want to
run the analysis on their desktop, this will give you a superb
result.
David
On 24 Jan 2006, at 15:35, Rosemarie
wrote:
Hi,
I
hope that some one can help. I run a small business on the north
west coast of Scotland and have built web sites for myself and several of my
clients. In the past I have used an American based firm for obtaining hits
to the sites, registering each individually. My local server.
Cali.co.uk has recommend the analog programme as being much netter. I have
made a start and included my own business name and URL.in the config, and
seen the results. But I am not sure if I should then go into
config and add all the other names or if not then how do I set up each
individual one on my computer. I have printed off all the read me file but
am getting somewhat bogged down with that, I really need it a little more
simplified.
Hoping
that you can help
Regards
Rosemarie.
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