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
