I would appreciate any recommendations from anyone for the most accurate
and useful server log analysis programs available, freeware, shareware, or
commercial, that will work with Apache logs.
Also, has the "proper" procedure for measuring traffic ever settled down
to any sort of a standard?
There are those who only report unique IP's once per day and call that
"number of unique visitors", even though the same IP or host can show up
multiple times for multiple users (when dynamic IP assignments are in
use), or multiple hosts / IP's can show up that actually point to the same
user (same reason).
There are those who report hits to the root directory or welcome.htm /
index.html file and count those as "hits", ignoring log entries for the
other files in a page.
And of course, there are still way too many who count every log entry as a
"hit", meaning every image file on every page that's accessed on a site is
counted as a "hit", thus enabling them to brag about getting ten to 20
times as much traffic as they're really getting.
I'd like a log analysis program that will give me the results in whatever
manner, if any, has been settled upon by the webmaster community as the
"legitimate" manner of counting hits.
Thanks for any assistance ...
. . . . . ep
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