Nicholas Tang wrote: > P.S. Of course the best option, if it exists for you, is to not log at > all. We don't write access logs on our webservers, only error logs, and > turn on access logs occasionally when something comes up that requires > it. (It rarely ever does.) I've found few situations that really > require writing web logs, especially now that Google Analytics is out > there as a free and easy-to-use service. >
Analytics is good but has a few drawbacks: -it's yet another call from your visitor to yet another server -if your pages are very small static files, it typically slows down the loading of that page (because it has to make an extra dns + http call, when really that page was probably already cached in memory) -if the history of your page's visitors is important to you, you are now stroing that, important, data on somebody else's server with no contract, no guarantee, etc... (you get what you pay for). -- Yves. http://www.sollers.ca/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
