Re: [htdig] Stats
Is there any way of generating stats of what users are searching for? I assume just the standard web logs. Does anyone suggest anything that is very good at not just stats but a clear picture of what users are doing. It's fairly trivial to either implement a wrapper that logs each search request (there's a few Perl wrappers out there so modifying one would be easy if you know some Perl) or just hack the C source to log the search term. If you're at all familiar with Perl or can dig your way through the C source it should take about 10 minutes to add file/db logging. Jim -- Jim Serio - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Producer, World of Coasters To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will receive a message to confirm this. List archives: http://www.htdig.org/mail/menu.html FAQ:http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html
Re: [htdig] Stats
Is there any way of generating stats of what users are searching for? I assume just the standard web logs. Does anyone suggest anything that is very good at not just stats but a clear picture of what users are doing. If you're not Perl/C savy, then another easy solution (since htdig uses GET for it's requests) is to use a log analyzer such as Analog to analyze your server logs. Then look at the referrers (which will also include your site and look at the longer URLs which should have the search terms). You could also run the analog's output through Report Magic (the URL escapes me but search for Report Magic) and it will pick apart the URL and search terms for you and place them in a "Search Criteria" section. Both of these probably aren't as accurate as direct logging though. Jim -- Jim Serio - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Producer, World of Coasters To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will receive a message to confirm this. List archives: http://www.htdig.org/mail/menu.html FAQ:http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html
Re: [htdig] Stats
According to htdighelp: Is there any way of generating stats of what users are searching for? I assume just the standard web logs. Does anyone suggest anything that is very good at not just stats but a clear picture of what users are doing. There are a couple techniques you can use. One is described at http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#logging which uses the syslog facility. The other is to set up your search forms to use the GET method, rather than POST, so that the query strings always appear in the web server logs. Either way, you'll get raw data for every query htsearch processes, and you can develop some scripts to summarise it any which way you want. I don't know of any canned scripts to do this for you. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW:http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax:(204)789-3930 To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You will receive a message to confirm this. List archives: http://www.htdig.org/mail/menu.html FAQ:http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html
