Aengus,
Thanks for the great explanation - you are the first person who gave me a proper answer.
Thanks for the great explanation - you are the first person who gave me a proper answer.
Since generating that statistic for each month consumes so much system resources, it would probably be wise for me to just generate it for the month in question,right? Could you advise me on how to run Analog against that month's logs?
I really appreciate your help with this.
Thanks,
Shal
Thanks,
Shal
On 5/16/06, Aengus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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).
Aengus
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