excuse me, did you say WebTrends is 'real-time' that it most certainly isn't. take a site like yahoo for example. i've heard their estimates of nearly 500 million page views a day. webtrends is not even close to real-time in this situation, they'd kill their machines, and don't even consider NFS, that'd be dog-slow.
Ken Weingold wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2001, staf wagemakers wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:15:59PM -0800, Mark Koopman wrote: > > > better yet, why use a log file analyzer at all? they can't truly measure > > > web > > > surfer behaviour > > > anyways, only web server behaviour. > > > > customers ask for it :) > > EXACTLY. People love that stuff. Plus the people are companies who > do the marketing and crap like that need to show the higher-ups that > they are doing something. Something like Webtrends gives them pretty > graphs and charts and numbers and makes everyone happy. I personally > think it's nifty seeing the browsers and OS's people are using. Then > again I often look at the X-Mailer or User-Agent headers to see what > MUA's people are using. And I have seen Webalizer, but people want > Webtrends. Real-time on-the-fly reporting and all. That's it. > Honestly, it IS a really cool thing, though really expensive. But > they want it and I install it. You can see an example at > <http://www.webtrends.com/SampleReports/ERS_report/index.html>. And > if you look at the browser stats, the usage of IE is even higher and > Netscape much lower. > > Incidentally, yesterday I got a call at work from a sales person at > Webtrends asking how my trial is going with the product. I am sure > she regretted calling once she hung up. I really let her have it > about how proprietary it was towards on distribution of Linux. She > sounded really dejected by the end of the conversation. I basically > said that because of that I wouldn't use the product if I weren't told > to install it. And other stuff. > > -Ken > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ScopusFest
