On Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:55 AM [EDT], Andreas Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do crawlers and robots have any influence of the request report? If so, how can I exclude the PIs crawler and robots produce?
You can use HOSTEXCLUDE or BROWEXCLUDE (http://analog.cx/docs/include.html) to exclude any robots/spiders that you identify. (There's an up to date list of browser strings used by known Robots at http://www.wadsack.com/robot-list.html)
My problem is that I am using several reporttools. Comparing the figures the analog-figures are about 50% higher than the others. Now my question is, wether the crawler are producing this difference.
They might be, but there are many reasons why different reporting methods return different answers. Analog reports on the data in your web servers log files, and you can be quite sure that it is extremely accurate. But its reports depend on the parameters that it is told to use (include/exclude certain hosts, ignore image requests, what counts as a page, etc). If you use a different method that uses different parameters, you'll get a different result.
If you don't understand the paraemeters that your different reporting methods are using, it's a waste of time comparing them. You can compare this months Analog results to last months, and learn something useful from the comparison, you won't learn anything useful by comparing an Analog report to some other report unless you understand the assumptions that both reports are based on.
Aengus
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