Well put Steven. Even I got AWstats working pretty quick, and I suck at web programming, never used PHP or Perl, etc...
Google Analytics has it's place for marketing sites, perhaps. As for the speed, yeah - I can't stand sites that use it! I always wondered why some sites are slow to load even on my 15Mb connection at work. Sure enough, it I look at my progress bar, it say 'Connecting to Google.Anlyitcs.com' or something. That's why their servers are now blocked in my hosts file. My web browsing speed has dramatically increased since doing that. If you must use it, please put the code in the bottom of the page, not the top. Your users will complain less. -----Original Message----- From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google Analytics I would strongly suggest you go through the pain of learning AWStats (not that much of a pain). With Google Analytics you are doing a few things. You are adding a piece of javascript to enable the tracking - Unknown how that will affect the built in Exchange access stuff. Every page that is viewed makes a call to an off site server and that is tracked off site. ANY latency/delay/lag involved in that call will result in a lag/performance issue in the users experience. A negative user experience results in "Exchange sucks" complaints. And there are times when lag is noticeable on sites not requiring an SSL connection. I think there are page view limitations that Analytics also has. If you exceed those you have to / should discuss with Google your use. I may be remembering this part wrong. Steven Peck :: http://www.blkmtn.org On Jan 31, 2008 8:06 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I second that emotion. > > > On Jan 31, 2008 10:59 AM, Sam Cayze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What about just using a log analyzer? AWstats is my favorite, it > > can do iis logs and smtp logs too! > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:52 AM > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: Google Analytics > > > > OK, follow-up question: Why? > > > > I use Analytics for public web sites, but I don't see how this > > information would be helpful for running an Exchange server. > > > > > > On Jan 31, 2008 9:58 AM, Whitson, Garry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To see what our owa users are using to access there email. (T1, > > > DSL, Cable, etc) > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:54 AM > > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > > Subject: Re: Google Analytics > > > > > > I have to ask: For what purpose would you install this on your > > > Exhange > > server? > > > > > > On 1/31/08, Whitson, Garry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Has anyone installed Google analytics on exchange server 2007? > > > > If you have where is the best place to install it. > > > > > > > > Garry Whitson > > > > System Administrator > > > > Information & Telecommunication System Lincoln Land Community > > > > College > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > > > > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > > > > > > > > -- > > > ME2 > > > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > > > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > > > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > ME2 > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > > > > > -- > > ME2 > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
