RE: [analog-help] Process Time and request reports

[analog-help]

Title: Process Time and request reports

    'Lo Jo,

 

    PROCESSING TIME is not a measurement of how long it takes for the web page

    to download to the client.  PROCTIME is a measurement of how long it took

    IIS to service the request.

 

    If it is your goal to measure the webserver performance from a browser's point

    of view, --Such as Time To Last Byte (TTLB),  then I recommend a different tool.

    Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool is available at:

    http://webtool.rte.microsoft.com/ and like Analog, is completely free.

 

    Though, in consideration of this list, further discussion of should be continued

    offline.

 

    Sincerely,

 

    Micke Barnes

    [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 

   

 

 

       

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Josephine Dyer
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 1:18 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [analog-help] Process Time and request reports

Hi,

I have been asked by my company to provide a tool that will enable us to track the performance of our website daily using the data in our log files. Page download time is of particular issue and we would like to be able to make comparisons between different days / hours. I have recently downloaded version 5.24 of analog, which I believe to be an exceptionally fast and flexible tool.  I particularly like the ability to call the program via the command line and pass in configuration that is only relevant to that particular call.  (I realise I could also do this via seperate config files)

We are using IIS 5.0.  I have configured the log files to output according to the documentation provided in Configure IIS for use with Analog. I am able to display the sum / percentage of pages it takes to load in a certain amount of time by using:

PROCTIMECOLS P
PROCTIME ON
I am also able to see the most popular pages using the request report. I can report on the dailiy or hourly logs by configuring IIS or (I believe) by setting the time setting in analog.  Need to read some more here.

However this only allows a certain amount of evaluation.  I therefore wrote a batch script that calls analogue via the command line and sets 'FILEINCLUDE' via the command line to allow me to see the processing time of either the most requested files or different directories.  This allows me to compare the average download time for pages in each section / or the most popular pages.  However this does not allow me to see  which pages were particularly slow during that period. I understand that Analog will not cross reference however I am unable to retreive the required information that would allow me to cross reference.

It would be useful to be able to report on the slowest pages to be loaded.  If the request report also returned the time-taken field, I assume I could request a floor of one for this report (REQFLOOR 1r) and then REQSORTBY time taken (this does not appear to be an option)

reqs: %bytes:       last time: file
----: ------: ---------------: ----
   2: 50.82%: 29/Sep/02 23:53: </plan_your_trip/special_travel_needs/singles/special_info_std.aust>
   1:  0.42%: 29/Sep/02 23:52: </plan_your_trip/special_travel_needs/singles/compute_url.aust>
   1:  0.43%: 29/Sep/02 23:49: </plan_your_trip/special_travel_needs/compute_url.aust>
   1: 23.03%: 29/Sep/02 23:49: </plan_your_trip/special_travel_needs/gay_and_lesbian/special_info_std.aust>
   1: 25.30%: 29/Sep/02 23:38: </plan_your_trip/special_travel_needs/singles/special_info_jp_asia.aust>

I have searched through the documentation and mailing list archives for a solution and cannot find anything to help me. 

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jo

Jo Dyer
Java Developer
Australian Tourist Commission
Email: jdyer@atc.australia.com
Phone: +61 2 9361 1224  Fax: +61 2 9361 1270
Corporate Site: www.atc.australia.com
Consumer Site: www.australia.com  



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