On Wednesday, February 01, 2006 10:44 AM [EDT], Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm running Analog v5.23 to produce monthly reports of the number of > distinct hosts visiting my sites for that month only. Then at the end > of the year I run a report for all the traffic for that year. > > What has me puzzled is that the annual report has a Distinct hosts > figure which is slightly higher than the *sum* of all the monthly > totals. > > I would have expected a huge overlap in the IP addresses/hostnames > visiting the site month-to-month, so an annual Distinct hosts would > be considerably lower than the sum of 12 months. > > Any suggestions on what could be going wrong? I can't think of anything obvious, assuming you're using exactly the same config files, just adding extra logs. Are you doing all the monthly reports now, or are you looking at old monthly reports that you did last year? Are you doing DNS lookups? DNS records change, so DNS lookups done 6 months ago might be different than the same lookups done today. Do any of the monthly totals look significantly different than the other months? 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 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
