Hi Joelh: My replies quoted "[Louis]"
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joel Heenan > Sent: Tuesday, 21 October 2003 08:08 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SLUG] Questions about AWStats Logs !! > > > > Issue 1: > > ======== > > First let start with Unique Visitor. From my understanding a unique > > visitor is a host that came to a web site. A unique visitor > can have > > more than one visits, and a visit can consist of more than 1 page > > viewed. Not let's say I connect to the internet using my > ISP that uses > > dynamic IP addressing. If I go to my own main url site (i.e > the base > > index.html) will AWStats count this as a Unique Visitor if the IP > > address changes from each connection despite the fact that I visted > > the site myself ? > > A unique visitor is one IP address accessing your website in > one day, I think. If you have a dynamic IP and you visit your > website you will be counted as one visitor for that day, > unless you IP address is reallocated during the day and you > visit again. Most dynamic IPs I have experienced do not > change that frequently. Telstra cable - around 3 months. When > I had dyamic ADSL - around a week with the one IP. > > Also I don't know about your network setup, if you are > hosting at home its most likely all the connections would be > local connections. [Louis] I host the server in the US. > > > > > For such a visit does this unique visitor falls in the category > > "Direct address / Bookmarks" from AWStats "Connect to site from" ? > > > > If so then does "Direct address / Bookmarks" means I'm the one > > visited the site, i.e if most of the hits are from hosts > that resolves > > to my ISP domain name provider ? > > There is a HTTP field called referrer in which the browser > provides the URL of a website that has linked to your > website. If the referrer is empty then it is a "direct > address / bookmark". That means the user has typed it in or > selected a bookmark. Otherwise they have followed a link. > > If the majority of hits resolve to you, chances are you have > been the major viewer of your website yes. Direct address / > Bookmarks does not imply you though as your friends may have > bookmarked your website. > > > > > Issue 2: > > ========= > > If I connect to my site via ftp or SSH is this also logged > as Unique > > Visitor ? Does uploads and downloads counts as visits ? > > Awstats is just a program processing error_log and > access_log. This is only connected to httpd. You can set it > up to log mail and ftp but this is done separately with a > different conf file. > > > > > Issue 3: > > ========= > > AWStats has a section called "Authenticated users (Top 10)". What > > falls in the category "Other logins (and/or anonymous users)" ? > > Sorry not sure, I would guess it would be the logins that > don't make the top 10 or the anonymous log ins? > > > > > Issue 4: > > ========== > > Cron scripts that accesses web pages not via browser but > command line. > > Does AWStats count stats for this as hits and logged them as Unique > > Visitors for host that resolve to the domain name where the cron is > > executed ? > > By default they are included. There is an option called > SkipHosts which can be used to skip them. [Louis] I see. What conf file do I have to modify ? For SkipHost I just enter the full IP address of the server ????? Also can I use this SkipHost so that when I connect to the site from my dial up ISP AWStats won't log these hits ? Cheers -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
