On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Peter J. Schoenster wrote:
> > I've got a page that I build on-the-fly that compares my web server stats
> > to other large (and, in some cases, not-so-large) numbers. ("If file
> > requests were pennies, we'd have a collection weighing ### pounds," and so
> > on.) Trouble is, I'm running out of ideas for comparisons. Has anyone
> > done anything similar, or have some super-great creative ideas they feel
> > like sharing?
>
> What interests me is who has put links to any pages on my site. I
> don't care how many hits I get in general. I am interested in how
> many hits I get from search engines/directories and other pages.
*smile*
I never claimed I considered it a *useful* page...it's more for amusement
than anything else. (Although our PR department does sneak some of those
numbers into the occasional press release...)
I do the regular logfile analysis thing as well. (In fact, until we moved
our web servers onto FreeBSD boxes, I was the official maintainer for the
DOS and Win32 ports of Analog.) All my public stats pages are linked from
http://www.letu.edu/network/stats/
> Here is my stats page:
>
> http://www.rede.com/stats/top50.html
>
> just choose one of the local domains and then choose to see the top
> 50 people sending people my way or the top 50 pages requested. This
> does a live analysis of my log files which I reset every few days.
A suggestion on the referrer analysis: one of the things I like about the
newer versions of Analog is the ability to group entries from a particular
search engine together and then list out the individual queries
underneath.
Here's an example selection...
6995: Aug/ 4/98 15:58: http://av.yahoo.com/bin/query
118: Mar/ 8/98 13:36:
http://av.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=informative+speech&hc=0&hs=0
112: Feb/10/98 17:07:
http://av.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=butterfly+knives&hc=0&hs=0
66: Jul/ 1/98 21:54:
http://av.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=trident9440&z=2&hc=0&hs=0
46: May/ 5/98 09:19: http://av.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=airesearch&hc=0&hs=0
45: Jul/ 2/98 09:52: http://av.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=john+inman&hc=0&hs=0
38: Jul/ 2/98 02:08: http://av.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=pulse+jet&hc=0&hs=1
33: May/ 6/98 04:12: http://av.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=trident9440&hc=0&hs=0
I like the way it gives me a sense of how many hits I've received overall
from Yahoo! (the first line), as well as the specific queries that brought
people my way.
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