Hi Steve,

Good work trying the comparisons.

Ican I assume that you are comparing apples with apples?  On the main page,
there is one page, and multiple ads. If all the pages you are counting are
structured with the same number of ads, then they should be in proportion to
each other - unless caching is getting in the way...

Personally, I would trust analog to give the right numbers.  The question is
"What are you counting?" - Ads, or pages?

Adrian

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Mallett
Sent: March 21, 2004 12:45 PM
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Subject: [analog-help] Total and utter confusion.


Hi folks,

I've been running webalizer, while running ads through doubleclick.  The 
number of 'pageviews' vs 'ads served' has never seen eye to eye at all.

Out of the box webalizer will show ~500,000 'pageviews' and doubleclick 
much much lower.

Trying to find the descrepency I ran GoogleAds for a couple of days and 
their 'ads servered' agreed with doubleclick.

That's fine, I thought that obviously webalizer was counting what it 
perhaps shouldn't be for my purposes and a friend had told me he runs 
analog.

This afternoon I set it up for one site, ran it out-of-thebox and it's 
numbers agreed with doubleclick and googleads.  Then poking around in 
analog.cfg I added "PAGEINCLUDE *.phtml" (Which is what http://OSDir.com 
pages are formatted as) then re-ran analog.  This agrees with 
webalizer's stats.  Not exact, but close enough. to make me highly 
suspect of doubleclick and googleads.

Can anyone shed some light on this situation??


-- 
Steve Mallett
http://steve.osdir.com
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