On Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:32 PM [EDT],
Shaleel Valsan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Aengus,
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?
If your logfiles aren't seperated in such a way that you can easily specify
the logs from a particular month (eg analog ex0604*.log), just set the TO
and FROM commands - http://analog.cx/docs/include.html#FROMTO.
e.g. analog +C"FROM 060401" +C"TO 060430" logfile.log
(or put the TO and FROM in the analog.cfg file).
Aengus
I really appreciate your help with this.
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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