Query: Investigating web-usage

[Ulrich Babiak]

 On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, ISN wrote:
> I am looking for a software tool to analyze log-files of an O'Reilly's
> Website. We would like to know more about the number of users of our web,
> possibly differentiated by the demanded page/service, their domain of
> provenience etc.

Let's face it - if you can't shell out some 3-digit-amount for
a "professional" package you probably have to use several smaller
packages, each one serving different needs and having different 
features.

As your platform is windows, I would recommend to look at AnaLog
(free) and wusage (Shareware, cheap but good). Check out
my statistics page at http://www.stbib-koeln.de/noindex/ausage.htm to
compare the results. Both of them are highly customizable
(and AnaLog has a german output option!)

The URLs for the software:
www.boutell.com (wusage)
http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/analog/ (AnaLog)
http://www.blpes.lse.ac.uk/misc/musage.htm (musage - if you have perl)



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