On Tuesday, May 16, 2006 11:43 AM [EDT], Shaleel Valsan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm using Report Magic/Analog on a web server. Is there a way to determine the number of unique visitors to a site per month. The Monthly Report only shows the number of requests. The Distinct Hosts in the General Summary section shows the number of Unique Visitors to the site during the entire report period. But there seems to be no way to display the number of unique visitors per week or month like in AWStats. I'm thinking it's just a setting in one of the config files to display the Distinct Hosts column in the Monthly Report as well. Please help.
To create a count of "unique hosts" Analog has to create a table in memory, and check whether each new host is unique or not. It does this once for the whole period of the logfile, but it would have to create seperate tables for each time period, whch would slow the process down, and eat memory. (It doesn't have to do this for request or Page counts, which are simple cumulative counts).
So if you want to get a count of unique visitors in any gven month, run Analog against that months logs - Analog won't calculate the number for different months in a set of logs. (It's also not an obviously useful statistic, as it doesn't tell you whether the unique visitors in one month are the same or different from the unique visitors in another month. A sudden spike or drop in "unique visitors" won't tell you anything useful).
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