On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 21:45 +0300, Vlad Dragu wrote:
> There were 2 problems. The first one was that in hackit’s config file
> it was a the wrong owa site id. The events were triggered and
> registered in owa but they were not associated with the correct site
> and that’s why they didn’t appear.

Uh, sorry for not checking that. Not sure it ended up being changed, but
this is certainly my fault.

> The second problem was a setting called delayed first hit. Owa says
> this is meant to reduce hits from robots who spoof their user agent.
> However, with this setting on, the first hit was correctly registered
> in the db (but it was not displayed because it had to be confirmed by
> subsequent hits), but subsequent hits were most of the time attributed
> to robots.

Ok, thanks! I tried to change that setting in the past, without results.
But we'll see how it goes with the current version.

> I left the “development” debug mode on for owa for now, so we can see
> better what's happening. It will result in a big log file, but we can
> always delete it when we don’t need it anymore.

Yup, sounds good. To remember to check, I've reassigned the bug to
alpha2.0, and marked it as Incomplete.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/hackit/+bug/601603 

Btw, this actually completes the list for alpha1.2. :D

> I don’t think this will result in a perfect match between owa results
> and awstats results. From what I could find, there are discrepancies
> between every 2 analytics software
> http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_faq.html#DIFFERENT_RESULTS

Yes, some differences are to be expected, definitely. What was worrying
me was more the fact that a lot of the requests coming from ads were not
logged - but you're right it may simply be a lot of people that don't do
anything after clicking on the ad.

Xavier.


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