On Monday, April 10, 2006 6:29 AM [EDT], Jim Mann Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have been puzzling over the figures with Analog for a downloadable >> file. They concern a pdf file of some 68KB. When that is clicked on >> a web >> page a download box appears asking whether one wants to open the file >> or save it. >> When I therefore look in the Analog Request Report for that file and >> find say 200 requests, to get an idea of the number of downloads or >> openings, do I have to divide by 2 (one request to open the download >> box and one request to open or save the file)? No. A "save or open" dilog should only generate one request from your browser - You can verify this by looking at the log file immediately after you request the file yourself. > I appreciate that some >> of the requests could be inflated by download software downloading >> in parts. It's pretty unusal to get an "Open or Save" dialog for a .pdf file. Usually, browsers are configured to open documents that are sent as application/pdf automaticlly in a PDF reader (for example, if you click on http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf). If your server is sending the document type as application/pdf, then your browser is probably not configured the way the vast majority of your visitors browsers are configured. And because of the way Acrobat Reader works, a single "reader" can make multiple requests for the same file (the document can be requested a page at a time). If that's happening on your server, there's no "one size fits all" way to estimate the number of unique document accesses. 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 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
