Hi, Aengus,
I trided the first step that you suggested. I uses ROBOTINCLUDE list to
include more robots and re-ran one of my log. I thought I should see more
"Known robots" numbers and less "OS unknown" number, but suprisedly in
opposite; please see the following datas for details. Can you explain
this?
Old:
#reqs: #pages: OS
-----: ------: --
3410: 403: Windows
2782: 307: Windows XP
303: 60: Windows 2000
232: 19: Windows 98
41: 10: Windows Server 2003
9: 2: Unknown Windows
16: 2: Windows ME
25: 2: Windows NT
2: 1: Windows 95
18607: 396: OS unknown
613: 128: Unix
602: 124: Linux
10: 3: SunOS
1: 1: BSD
426: 50: Macintosh
2859: 26: Known robots
New:
#reqs: #pages: OS
-----: ------: --
3410: 403: Windows
2782: 307: Windows XP
303: 60: Windows 2000
232: 19: Windows 98
41: 10: Windows Server 2003
9: 2: Unknown Windows
16: 2: Windows ME
25: 2: Windows NT
2: 1: Windows 95
21462: 396: OS unknown
613: 128: Unix
602: 124: Linux
10: 3: SunOS
1: 1: BSD
426: 50: Macintosh
4: 26: Known robots
Grace
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Aengus wrote:
> On Friday, July 21, 2006 7:50 AM [EDT],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Our group have been using Analog since Apr. 2002 to see how often
> > people
> > access our website. In our reports, the average monthly #reqs under
> > "OS unknown" in "Operating System Report" is as following:
> >
> > Year #reqs
> > ------------------------
> > 2002 1600
> > 2003 2400
> > 2004 4500
> > 2005 8300
> > 2006 19000
> >
> > You can see that the number is increasing each year. It seems not
> > reasonable to count those #reqs as people "actually" using our
> > websites. How can I determine if these OS unknown includes robots
> > or search engines?
>
> You can find a fairly comprehensive list of known Robots, nicely confgured as
> a ROBOTINCLUDE list at:
> http://www.wadsack.com/robot-list.html
>
> > How can I decrease the OS unknown numbers?
>
> Browser strings usually indicate the OS that the browser is running on. If you
> do a full Browser Report (BROWSERREP ON) you should be able to pick out
> browsers that don't specify an OS. You can make this easier by specifying
-> commands like
> BROWREPEXCLUDE *Windows*
> etc to exclude the known ones.
>
> Once you get a list of Browser Strings that aren't recognized as Robots (with
> ROBOTINCUDE commands) and that don't include OS strings, you can use BROWALIAS
> commands to assign an Operating System.
>
> Here's an example that changes a Browser from "OS Unknown" to "Windows XP":
> BROWALIAS Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600
> "Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 (Windows NT 5.1)"
>
> Aengus
>
>
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