On Tuesday, January 31, 2006 6:55 AM [EDT], Jo Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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? If the number of page requests dropped dramatically, you'd want to know why. Server performance might be one factor, but that would usually be something you'd be aware of (or someone would be aware of - whether you're on the list of people they'd tell is another question!). If the problem occurred because your site suddenly got blacklisted by a firewall vendor, for example, the pattern of lost traffic might give some indication. If the problem was caused by network routing problems, again you might notice that most of the lost traffic was coming from particular domains. > What you be more tempted to set targets for > individual pages each month rather than the site as a whole? That doesn't make a great deal of sense to me. A target suggests that there is an obvious consequence when you either reach or don't reach the target. But what you do if you only get 90 hits when the target was 100 depends on why you only got 90. Your reaction might be the same if you actually got 110, if the logs show that the 110 came from a segment of the audience that only generated 50 hits last month. Analog can tell you what happened. By asking the right follow-up questions, it can help you figure out why it happened. But it can't tell you what to do about it. Aengus +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | 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 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
