On 5/16/06, Aengus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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