RE: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-21 Thread Iain Hunneybell
That's a very good idea :-) Many thanks Aengus -Original Message- From: analog-help-boun...@lists.meer.net [mailto:analog-help-boun...@lists.meer.net] On Behalf Of Aengus Sent: 21 February 2009 18:45 To: Support for analog web log analyzer Subject: Re: [analog-help] Problem with

RE: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-21 Thread Iain Hunneybell
lto:analog-help-boun...@lists.meer.net] On Behalf Of Stephen Turner Sent: 21 February 2009 19:15 To: Support for analog web log analyzer Subject: Re: [analog-help] Problem with page counts 2009/2/21 Iain Hunneybell : > > Re browser activiy and caching, with '304ISSUCCESS ON' I presu

Re: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-21 Thread Stephen Turner
2009/2/21 Iain Hunneybell : > > Re browser activiy and caching, with '304ISSUCCESS ON' I presume a GET > request with a 304 will be counted as a page read? Of course, if the browser > (or an intermediate proxy) doesn't return the request to the server...) > Yes, with 304ISSUCCESS, it will be treat

Re: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-21 Thread Aengus
On 2/21/2009 1:27 PM, Iain Hunneybell wrote: As for page counts, my best rationalisation is that the high overnight count is spiders and so analog is correctly showing page requests that aren't being recorded by the page view 'bug'. Then over day proxies are causing the page bug to record higher

RE: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-21 Thread Iain Hunneybell
o:analog-help-boun...@lists.meer.net] On Behalf Of Stephen Turner Sent: 21 February 2009 17:17 To: Support for analog web log analyzer Subject: Re: [analog-help] Problem with page counts OK, there are lots of things here, but the first important thing to say is that logfile analysis and page tagging

RE: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-21 Thread Iain Hunneybell
orrupt and they do indeed seem to be truncated and account for about 5% of the log lines which seems high. Now to understand why the servers would be doing this! .../Iain -Original Message- Sent: 21 February 2009 14:03 To: 'Support for analog web log analyzer' Subject: RE: [anal

Re: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-21 Thread Stephen Turner
OK, there are lots of things here, but the first important thing to say is that logfile analysis and page tagging will never match up. They use fundamentally different techniques, and each makes errors that the other is not susceptible to. For page views you would normally expect to see the logfile

Re: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-21 Thread Hungerburg
Iain Hunneybell schrieb: One thing which is odd is that analog is reporting quite high usage of Netscape 4 which seemed odd and so caused me to look further. maybe it helps to turn on browser reporting and compare numbers, which will display a list of (50) found browser identification strings

RE: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-21 Thread Iain Hunneybell
on] and [directory] figures exceed my page view data, whether I may be missing lots of pages in corrupt log lines etc. Thx.../Iain -Original Message- From: analog-help-boun...@lists.meer.net [mailto:analog-help-boun...@lists.meer.net] On Behalf Of Stephen Turner Sent: 20 February 2009 1

RE: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-21 Thread Iain Hunneybell
web log analyzer Subject: Re: [analog-help] Problem with page counts 2009/2/20 Iain Hunneybell : > > Sadly I have no UNIX host to hand and these are Gig files and so I > can't head/tail/grep easily. Windows grep dies... I'll write something > to parse the files so I can

RE: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-20 Thread Iain Hunneybell
-help-boun...@lists.meer.net [mailto:analog-help-boun...@lists.meer.net] On Behalf Of Stephen Turner Sent: 20 February 2009 20:53 To: Support for analog web log analyzer Subject: Re: [analog-help] Problem with page counts 2009/2/20 Iain Hunneybell : > > Sadly I have no UNIX host to hand a

Re: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-20 Thread Stephen Turner
2009/2/20 Iain Hunneybell : > > Sadly I have no UNIX host to hand and these are Gig files and so I can't > head/tail/grep easily. Windows grep dies... I'll write something to parse > the files so I can have a real look at the records... > Can you install Cygwin? -- Stephen Turner +--

RE: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-20 Thread Iain Hunneybell
-- From: analog-help-boun...@lists.meer.net [mailto:analog-help-boun...@lists.meer.net] On Behalf Of Stephen Turner Sent: 20 February 2009 19:47 To: analog-help Subject: Re: [analog-help] Problem with page counts 2009/2/20 Iain Hunneybell : > I am trying to analyse pages from a large 'portal&#x

Re: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-20 Thread Stephen Turner
2009/2/20 Iain Hunneybell : > I am trying to analyse pages from a large 'portal' site and am having real > problems with page counts and all attempts with PAGEINCLUDE, TYPE and > FILEALIAS and other experiements fail. > > The site generates URLs similar to: > /bdotg/action/home?r.l1=1078549133&r.lc

[analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-20 Thread Iain Hunneybell
I am trying to analyse pages from a large 'portal' site and am having real problems with page counts and all attempts with PAGEINCLUDE, TYPE and FILEALIAS and other experiements fail. The site generates URLs similar to: /bdotg/action/home?r.l1=1078549133&r.lc=en&r.s=m It seems to be the period i