Hi Andrew, This comes up from time to time - here is a previous thread you might find useful.
Adrian -----Original Message----- From: Dolling, Adrian CAWS:EX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 9, 2003 9:14 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [analog-help] (New user) Visits and visitors Like many other webserver statistics, you cannot analyze what has not been collected. It is possible to a) define, and b) log, a great variety of things, including the passage of a particular browser session (but not window) through a website. To do this requires user cooperation (they must enable cookies), special website coding (e.g. adding a single pixel image generated by your favourite scripting language - php, perl, asp, etc.), special logging (by the script), and then analysis. We provide this as a (no charge) service for our partner organizations - in order to obtain reasonably comparable web visitor statistics. We designed the logfiles to be easily analyzed using analog - works wonderfully. We are just aiming to count visitors - but with an additional custom log analysis step, we could evaluate the time between the first and last page request. Please contact me directly for information. Adrian Adrian Dolling, Systems Consultant Public Library Services Branch Ministry of Community, Aboriginal and Women's Services PO Box 9490 Stn Prov Govt (mailing address) Victoria BC V8W 9N7 800 Johnson St, Victoria, BC (street address) [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mcaws.gov.bc.ca/LGD/public_libraries/ Tel 250-387-4043 or 1-800-663-7051 FAX 250-953-3225 -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 8, 2003 3:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [analog-help] (New user) Visits and visitors On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Julien Biaudet wrote: > > When I say 'visits', I don't really want to know how many time a user > spend on my website ; I would like rather to know how many different > ('single', I'm not sure that's the good word) users have 'see' my > website, even if they have 'visited' it for only one second. > Yes, it's clear. The problem is that there is no way to tell if two requests were from the same user, or from different users. Sometimes it can look as if two requests were from the same user, but really they were from different users. Sometimes it can looks as if the requests were from different users, but really they were from the same user. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Potozniak, Andrew Sent: May 6, 2004 7:57 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [analog-help] Analog Report Help Unique Visits Ok....well say I had the user name in the log along with the IP...then it is possible to get some sort of a visit count that would be closer to the "session" count that I'm looking for rather than the number of requests. With that said, rules could also be made for "inactivity time" to denote time frames of inactivity to denote one session from another in the case of a user "visiting" your site from the same ip, and with those 3 things combined you could possibly get a visit or session count. > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:46 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: [analog-help] Analog Report Help Unique Visits > > > On Thu, 6 May 2004, Potozniak, Andrew wrote: > > > Is there anyway to get analog to report on unique visits? > > > > This is in the FAQ. > > -- > Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ > "The internet is a reflection of our society. If we do not > like what we see, the problem is not to fix the mirror, we > have to fix society." 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