Programs like Webtrends and funnelweb can compute items like average
session length in time, as well as number of requests per session, based
on some preset session length you specify, such as 20 minutes, or 40
minutes, or whatever. They also allow clickstream reports that allow you
to see how a
Generally speaking:
A) Find the start of the session - usually the first hit from a given IP.
B) Find the end of the session for that IP - the last hit when the session
time limit is up
C) Get all the log entries between entry A and entry B for that IP
D) Analyze the resulting Log entries as
I understand that part of the concept - it's just that with huge log
files, I don't know the quickest way to find the start of each
session, or the quickest way to walk thru a whole slew of page requests
to determine the end of the session (basically, each request will need
to be compared to the
