RE: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-21 Thread Iain Hunneybell
on my Netscape 4 figures and so want to be certain :-) 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 20:53 To: Support for analog web log analyzer Subject: Re: [analog-help

RE: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-21 Thread Iain Hunneybell
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 19:47 To: analog-help Subject: Re: [analog-help] Problem with page counts 2009/2

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

RE: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-21 Thread Iain Hunneybell
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: [analog-help] Problem with page counts Well Cygwin is a big help

RE: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-21 Thread Iain Hunneybell
: 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 will never match up. They use fundamentally different techniques

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

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 page

Re: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-20 Thread Stephen Turner
2009/2/20 Iain Hunneybell i...@ipmarketing.co.uk: 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:

RE: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-20 Thread Iain Hunneybell
] 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...@ipmarketing.co.uk: I am trying to analyse pages from a large 'portal' site and am having real problems with page counts and all attempts

Re: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-20 Thread Stephen Turner
2009/2/20 Iain Hunneybell i...@ipmarketing.co.uk: 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

RE: [analog-help] Problem with page counts

2009-02-20 Thread Iain Hunneybell
...@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 i...@ipmarketing.co.uk: Sadly I have no UNIX host to hand