In that sense then; If the amount of pages requested were to drop dramaticaly from one month to the next, would you not take this as a measure of the website's performance? What you be more tempted to set targets for individual pages each month rather than the site as a whole? JO
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Wright Sent: 31 January 2006 11:40 To: Support for analog web log analyzer Subject: RE: [analog-help] Referring Site Report, and reporting only ondirectories/pages Jo, Is it possible to tailor the reports in Analog such that you are given statistics for: >- unique visitors >- how long each unique visit is You can't. The web is stateless so you can't define a 'unique visit' with any measure of accuracy. http://www.analog.cx/docs/webworks.html >The help option in Analog describes how calculating unique visits is >unreliabel due to problems like cacheing etc... > >How do you generally set your website targets/ test that the site is >performing to standard from month to month... by page request instead? Personally I don't, the statistics are useful so I can prove how much the site is being used, where the most used pages are etc. The standard I ensure is not so much page requests but from performance of the site as a whole - uptime, page load time etc (which is not got from analog). The stats are more useful to me by showing the demographics of where the accesses come from, how people have found the site (search words report). The stats are useful, but they are not a bible - more of a guidance. Rgds Alan Wright IT Support Technician Centre for Psychological Research in Human Behaviour School of Education, Health & Sciences University of Derby Western Road, Mickleover, DE3 9GX http://ibs.derby.ac.uk/psychology +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general +------------------------------------------------------------------------ +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general +------------------------------------------------------------------------
