You wrote: By the way, if your logon information is being tracked in a cookie, then you must be checking that cookie within the page access code. I presume that code uses some sort of timeout mechanism? If so, then that's the place to count your sessions, not in an after the fact log analysis.
Aengus Do you have an example of counting the sessions in such a manner? I've done it this way before, however, I'd like to use something that's standardized. As for looking at 1000 reports - the purpose of this project is to see if different types of "users" use the site in different capacities, and how much they use it. So, eventually, SAS or some other stats package will have to look at all this data in order to determine if different types of users "used" the site more or less. How they want to determine use I don't know. I've warned them of the inaccuracies of "time spent online", however, they still may choose to use that. If so, then SAS will need to correlate all the sessions to determine if "nonsmokers", for instance, use the site more than "smokers" for accessing health-related information. Or diabetics, non-diabetics, females, males, or all types of lovely variables. Even if I setup the cookie as you describe, I still don't see any time-based reports in analog. Are they not even possible? Bryan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Aengus Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 08:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [analog-help] session length, pages per session visit "Bryan Ax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got the cookie to track my user. I didn't see in the analog > documentation where I could configure the LOGFORMAT to do the > USERINCLUDE field. I'll give that a shot and see what happens. Can you > please refer me to more information on setting that up? If your cookie field looks something like logonid=ABC123 then your LOGFORMAT would include logonid=%u Typically, you'll have more that one cookie in your cookie field, so you'll have to tweak your LOGFORMAT to ignore the rest of the cookie information. For example, if the cookie looks like logonid=ABC123;othercookie=blah then your LOGFORMAT will include logonid=%u;%j - Anlog will recognize the ";" as indicating the end of the logonID. > Unfortunately, I DO actually care about the 50,000 visitors. Except > there won't be quite that many - more like 1000. I can absolutely guarantee that if you generate 1,000 individial user reports, you will not look at all 1,000 of them, and neither will anyone else! > However, I need to be > able to track every bit of data about that user, their sessions, where > they go and when. What you'll probably find is that, once you've gathered all that data, that some bits of it are meaningless (either because the variability is too large to be useful, or because the data doesn't actually tell you anything useful). Unfortunately, you can't know that it's not all that useful until after you analyse it (at least the first time). By the way, if your logon information is being tracked in a cookie, then you must be checking that cookie within the page access code. I presume that code uses some sort of timeout mechanism? If so, then that's the place to count your sessions, not in an after the fact log analysis. Aengus +----------------------------------------------------------------------- - | 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 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
