On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 08:58  AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I  recently built webalizer on both Linux machines and FreeBSD.   
> Here's my experience:
.....
> BTW - is it just me or does webalizer rock?  I'm currently processing 
> our apache + squid logs every hour and then posting the results 
> (rsync) to one of our internal web servers - works perfectly :-)

I installed it on caves.org.au two years ago. It rocks but I have 
always wondered a bit about how to understand the statistics. Reading 
the webalizer homepage info doesnt tell me enough about understanding 
our own sites stats.
[I have changed the subject as this is a bit OT]
At http://caves.org.au/stats for say November we have
Total Hits 15645
Total Visits 1672
Total Unique Sites 1015

Further down the page under "Top 20 of 316 Total URLs" I have.....
#   Hits                    KBytes               URL
1   1107  7.08%    4722 4.54%     /kid/
2   810    5.18%    1190 1.15%     /style.css
3   466    2.98%    44 0.04%          /robots.txt
4   458    2.93%    1523 1.47%      /
5   245    1.57%         51 0.05%    /mailto_webmaster.js
(all the rest are < 1%)

yes 1107/15645 hits is 7% but the stats here suggest that the top two 
sites make up only 12% of the total hits. So the remaining 314 URLs 
(note there are 316 URLs)  are each getting < 1% each of the traffic 
and this needs to add up to 92% which is will. Its just that this seems 
a very strange skew - a flat distribution with a few spikes. I would 
have expected that several sites would be the top and add up to a high 
percentage with all the rest distributed in say the last 20%.

Anyone used to interpreting these things?

Michael Lake
Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical.
- pls ignore legal crap below :-)



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