Jeremy,
I had a discussion the other day with a potential customer. I gave him our
URL. He said that we could discuss specifics after he looked at our web.
I'd like to check the log to see if he got there yet. (I can recognize his
address.)
We get 10 - 20 people a day visiting our site. It is very, very specialized
and has no appeal to the general public. There's gold in them thar logs
that cannot be recognized by a graph or bar chart. I understand that the
limitations of web logging may prevent me from getting all the detail that I
would like, but there must be a better way to see if and when a few
importation visitors stopped by, and something about what they did while
they were here. (to whatever extent possible.)
I have a PIII 800 Mhz PC with Windows 2000 and I feel pretty good about its
capacity to process a few hundred log entries, and with good software,
produce a well formatted result. But if there is no better way to view
logs, then OK. I just thought that the folks in this group might know.
Mike Vislocky
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> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 12:33 PM
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> Subject: Re: [analog-help] Log Trace by Visitor?
>
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>
>
> Mike Vislocky wrote:
>
> > Raw log files seem to contain very interesting information.
> But the lines
> > seem very long for many of my viewers. Perhaps someone could suggest
> > programs that format that information in a more readable form?
> >
> > One improvement might be tab or comma delimited format so that
> the fields
> > could be put into columns. Or database fields.
> >
> > Maybe the columns could be sorted...
>
> Raw logs are really not that interesting unless you have a lot of time
> on your hands. Depending on your server, you might be able to change the
> format of the logs to use tab-delimited or something, but I don't think
> that will really get you anything interesting. Loading whole log files
> into a database will bring your database to it's knees really fast.
>
> The reason for employing analysis tools like Analog is to summarize the
> data in those logs and produce useful results. Analog also provides the
> ability to see more information than you can get from the raw log file
> reports (Operating System Report, Search Engine Reports, etc.)
>
>
> > If it is not possible to achieve the results described below,
> what is the
> > closest approximation that can be reasonably achieved?
>
> Several methods of approximation are used by other software programs.
> These include heuristics, cookie tracking, and URL session keys. Analog
> will not provide this information for the reasons stated in
> docs/webworks.html.
>
>
> --
>
> Jeremy Wadsack
> Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
>
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