Readme for analog2.90beta1

What's new in this version?

2.90beta1 (27-Mar-98)

This version is a completely rewritten version. Every single line of code is new. The whole code is shorter despite considerable improvements in functionality. The most important new features are:

• Eleven new reports (Quarter-Hour, Five-Minute, Redirection, Failure, File Size, Referring Site, Redirected Referrer, Failed Referrer, Virtual Host, User, User Failure).
• Reads logfiles in user-customisable format.
• Analyses user and virtual host data, and failed requests.
• Hierarchical reports list subdirectories under directories, and allow analysis of browser version numbers.
• Faster sorting of long reports.
• Floor and sort method made independent.
• "Last date" column in reports, and can floor and sort by date.
• Busiest time period at bottom of time reports.
• "Not listed" line at bottom of other report.
• Knows HTTP/1.1 status codes.
• General Summary can go anywhere in the report.
• General Summary and "Go To"s can now be turned on and off independently.
• Status Code Report can be sorted in different ways.
• Time offset commands.
• Much better checking of invalid configuration options and invalid logfile lines.
• Only reads logfiles it might need.
• Improvements in DNS functionality: can now read the DNS file without further lookups: also, separate recheck intervals for successful and failed lookups.
• Hash sizes now chosen automatically.
• More flexible language support.
• Mac version reads gzipped logfiles.
• Mac version supports drag-and-drop onto program icon.
• Readme files completely re-written. Broken into lots of files, and new sections on Starting to use analog and What the results mean, as well as an index.

The following features have been abolished.

• No Error Report. The error log was always intended for humans rather than computers to read. Moreover, its format varied from server to server, and even between different versions of the same server. The place of the Error Report has largely been taken by the new reports, particularly the Failure Report.
• The approximate host counting has been abolished for the time being. I can put it back if there is a significant demand for it.
• Only one * can now appear on the left-hand side of aliases. This is to avoid ambiguities.
• For changes in the names and syntax of configuration options and command line arguments, see the page about updating.

What was new in version 2?

What was new in version 1?

[ Top | Up | Prev | Next | Map | Index ]