I use awstats I think its in Woody, or you can go to awstats.sourceforge.net "Michael D. Crawford" wrote:
> I'd like a recommendation for a web server logfile analyzer. My web hosting > service uses apache. > > I've used analog on Windows (where it's pretty hard to use) but I understand > it > runs on Linux too so maybe you can tell me how to do what I want with it. > Analog is complex to configure and some expertise seems to be needed to get > the > most meaningful results from it. > > What I need to do is find the number of unique views of each of my pages that > wasn't referred from within my site. By unique, if a page gets viewed twice > by > the same ip address or hostname, it would only show up once in my count. I > want > to count only the referrals that come from somewhere else on the web. > > Mostly I check my log file using, for example: > > grep "GET / " access_log | wc > > but that will show both the hits I get from offsite as well as the referrals > from other pages within my site. > > On the other hand, it would also be helpful to see the number of referrals > that > do come from within my site. So if someone comes to a particular page I write > to attract traffic, and then goes to the pages where I talk about my services, > that would be helpful to keep track of. > > Finally, some people find my pages with the search engines. The search terms > they user are often encoded in the URL of the referring page. The syntax for > the URL would be different depending on the search engine. I would like to > know > what the search terms are that people are finding me with. > > I don't believe in spamming the search engines, but I do believe it is very > worthwhile, and the right thing to do, to set out content that is useful to > people in hopes of driving traffic to my site. But I have a limited amount of > time to do that and want to be more intelligent about how I do it. > > Thanks in advance. > > Michael D. Crawford > GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting > http://www.goingware.com/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
