On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:55:54AM +1100, Craig Small wrote:
> > Maybe it's just that www.d.o Apache logs don't track referrers...
>
> Yeah, we got a crappy common format log instead of combined. This is an
> example of combined:
> 1.2.3.4 - - [17/Dec/2001:07:37:42 +1100] "GET /itools/nslookup.php HTTP/1.1"
> 200 5419 "http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=nslookup+web";
> "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0)"
>
> This guy searched from google for "nslookup web" on Google and he got my
> nslookup page. Combined is so much better because you can tune stuff
> for search strings and you can see entry and exit pages. Entry page is
> a page that has a referred that isn't your site and an exit page is a
> page that is not mentioned elsewhere as a referrer.
Webalizer seems to figure out entry and exit pages without this, though...
I don't know if changing the log format would have too much negative impact
on the server performance and disk space consumption.
> What we want is their paths and that's where apache2dot comes in. You
> can get pretty pictures showing where people go. Not of course that has
> to be tempered with Jay's comments about WHY people age going to the
> website.
>
> You know, we could just ask people...
With a poll?
> > > Are more than 5% of people going to the mirrors? Are they worth having?
> >
> > % zgrep redirect.pl access.log access.log.0 access.log.?.gz | wc -l
> > 7513
> >
> > That's also since Dec 4th.
> >
> > Bear in mind that once you change to the mirror you don't invoke the script
> > anymore (because the in-site links are meant to stay within the site), so
> > this only counts those people who switch from one mirror to another.
>
> I personally don';t use the mirrors because they often are awful. I get
> apt to use it for my downloads though. So Jay, are we goign to remove
> mirrors? Can I have my pgsql-run vendors list now? :)
Hahaha. :)
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