Analog 4.15: Analog's reports

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The figures in parentheses represent the seven days given at the top of this report: it's the seven days before the TO time if there was a TO command, or if not the seven days before the report was run.

You can't find out the number of visitors or visits you've had, and don't believe any program which tells you that you can. See the section on How the web works for a discussion of this.

You can turn this report on or off with the GENERAL command. You can include or exclude the figures for the last seven days with the LASTSEVEN command. You may get slightly different lines to those above, depending on other options you have set.

Monthly, Weekly, Daily, Hourly, Quarter-Hour and Five-Minute Reports

week beg.: #reqs: pages: 
---------: -----: -----: 
13/Sep/98: 69614: 25277: 
20/Sep/98: 10032:  5861: 

You can control whether each report is included or not with the appropriate ON or OFF command. You can control which columns are listed by the COLS commands. You can control which measurement to use for the bar charts and the "busiest" line by the GRAPH commands. You can determine how many rows are displayed with the ROWS commands. You can display the lines backwards or forwards in time by the BACK commands. You can change the graphic used for the bar charts with the BARSTYLE command.

Daily and Hourly Summaries

day: #reqs: pages: 
---: -----: -----: 
Sun:  2031:  1193: 
Mon:  8001:  4668: 
Tue:     0:     0: 
Wed: 13934:  5915: 
[etc.]

You can control whether each report is included or not with the appropriate ON or OFF command. You can control which columns are listed by the COLS commands. You can control which measurement to use for the bar charts by the GRAPH commands. You can change the graphic used for the bar charts with the BARSTYLE command.

Other reports

#reqs: %bytes:       last date: file
-----: ------: ---------------: ----
 4123:  2.29%: 21/Sep/98 01:57: /~sret1/analog/
 3064:  0.15%: 21/Sep/98 01:54: /~sret1/analog/analogo.gif
 1737:  0.01%: 21/Sep/98 01:53: /~sret1/images/bar1.gif
 1692:  0.01%: 21/Sep/98 01:53: /~sret1/images/bar16.gif
 1685:  0.01%: 21/Sep/98 01:53: /~sret1/images/bar8.gif
67345: 97.54%: 21/Sep/98 02:04: [not listed: 8,175 files]

• The Host Report lists all computers which downloaded files from you.
• The Domain Report lists which countries those computers came from. (If you only get "unresolved numerical addresses", see the FAQ.)
• The Organisation Report attempts to list the organisations (companies, institutions, ISPs etc.) which the computer was registered under.
• The Request Report (the example above) lists which files were downloaded.
• The Directory Report lists which directories those files came from.
• The File Type Report lists the file types (actually, extensions) of those files.
• The File Size Report breaks them down by size.
• The Processing Time Report shows the time taken to serve each file.
• The Redirection Report lists the filenames which resulted in redirections: mainly directories without the final slash, and "click-thru"'s.
• The Failure Report lists the filenames which caused errors.
• The Referrer Report lists which pages linked to your files.
• The Referring Site Report lists the servers those referrers were on.
• The Search Query Report and the Search Word Report lists which search terms people used to find your site (provided you've used the appropriate SEARCHENGINE commands).
• The Redirected Referrer Report lists the referrers which led to redirections.
• The Failed Referrer Report is essentially a broken link report.
• The Browser Report lists the detailed versions of browsers used, and the Browser Summary collects them by vendor.
• The Operating System Report lists the operating systems of the visitors whose browser types you know (as far as possible: it's not always possible to distinguish between Windows NT & Windows 2000, for example).
• The Virtual Host Report lists the activity of your various servers.
• The User Report lists your visitors if your server requires authentication, or perhaps the visitors' cookies.
• The Failed User Report lists the users who caused errors.
• The Status Code Report lists the number of each HTTP status code that you had.

As usual, you can control whether each report is included or not with the appropriate ON or OFF command. You can control which columns are listed by the COLS commands. You can change how the reports are sorted by the SORTBY commands. You can control how many items are listed by the FLOOR commands. You can include or exclude individual items with the output INCLUDE and EXCLUDE commands. You can change the names of items in the reports with the OUTPUTALIAS commands.

The "not listed" line at the bottom counts those items which didn't get enough traffic to get above the FLOOR for the report, and those which were explicitly EXCLUDEd.

Most of these reports have a hierarchical structure, like this example for the Domain Report:

no.: #reqs: %bytes: domain
---: -----: ------: ------
  1: 13243: 16.23%: .com (Commercial)
   :  1262:  1.26%:   aol.com
  2: 11783: 25.64%: .jp (Japan)
   :  9592: 22.19%:   ad.jp
   :  1043:  1.97%:   co.jp
  3: 10073: 11.62%: .net (Network)
   :  1926:  1.71%:   uu.net
  4:  9657: 13.31%: [unresolved numerical addresses]
  5:  7388:  8.04%: .uk (United Kingdom)
   :  5792:  5.74%:   ac.uk
   :  1510:  1.99%:   co.uk
   : 18502: 25.16%: [not listed: 82 domains]

Which files are linked to in the Request Report is controlled by the LINKINCLUDE and LINKEXCLUDE commands, and which files are linked to in the various referrer reports is controlled by the REFLINKINCLUDE and REFLINKEXCLUDE commands. The links in the Request Report are also affected by the BASEURL command.

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