I understand that part of the concept - it's just that with huge log files, I don't know the quickest way to find the "start" of each session, or the quickest way to walk thru a whole slew of page requests to determine the end of the session (basically, each request will need to be compared to the request that came immediately before it and see if the time is greater than the time limit). Just use some sort of recursive loop to compare files?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of James Linden Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 04:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [analog-help] session length, pages per session visit Generally speaking: A) Find the start of the session - usually the first "hit" from a given IP. B) Find the end of the session for that IP - the last hit when the session time limit is up C) Get all the log entries between entry A and entry B for that IP D) Analyze the resulting Log entries as desired. James Linden [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://analog.lindensys.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Ax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:56 AM Subject: [analog-help] session length, pages per session visit | Programs like Webtrends and funnelweb can compute items like average | session length in time, as well as number of requests per session, based | on some preset session length you specify, such as 20 minutes, or 40 | minutes, or whatever. They also allow clickstream reports that allow you | to see how a user moved "thru" your site during a session. I don't see | that analog can do this type of thing, nor did I find that AWStats can | (awstats.sourceforge.net). Neither can an Active Server Page based | version. | | This type of information is critical to what we collect. Does someone at | least know the algorithms used to create these types of measures, so I | can recreate them as necessary? Any type of references to how different | web statistics algorithms are calculated would be really helpful, as I | don't have the ability to spend $2500 for the advanced FunnelWeb that | can do this, and I also need to add in some additional customizations | that they can't seem to do. | | Any help or references appreciated. | | Sincerely, | | Bryan Ax | Developer | AMC Cancer Research Center | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------- - | | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | | mailing list, go to | | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | | | List archives are available at | | http://www.mail-archive.com/analog-help@lists.isite.net/ | | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------- - +----------------------------------------------------------------------- - | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/analog-help@lists.isite.net/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +----------------------------------------------------------------------- - +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/analog-help@lists.isite.net/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
