Tracking Software review

[emiller at SMTPGWY.ISINET.COM]

     I have been using Interse (which has been bought by Microsoft and is 
     now known as Usage Analyst) for about six months now.  With that 
     program, you import the log files into a database.  You can then 
     restrict which pages, or sections or subdirectories you would like to 
     analyze.  
     
     We posted some special pages for a marketing campaign and were able to 
     go back and analyze the logs for hits, visits, length of stay, number 
     of pages retrieved and all that sort of thing (plus information based 
     on the domain from the IP addresses) for just the pages involved.
     
     I am hoping to test Web Trends as well for its capabilities in light 
     of the new version.  Once I get a chance to report, I will.
     
     
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Subject: Re: Tracking Software review
Author:  dwinells at vmsb.csd.mu.edu at INTERNET
Date:    5/7/97 4:49 PM


I saw the article in IW, as well, but haven't had time to read it yet.  Our
library doesn't have its own web server, so we have a subdirectory off the
very large campus web server.  We'd like to get more detailed stats than
the ones made available from our webmaster.  Right now we can only see how
many hits our pages receive and nothing more.  I'd like to get some log
analysis software, but don't know much about running it when you only want
to analyze one portion of the server.  Does anyone have any experience
doing this and any software recommendations?

Sheryl Dwinell
Cataloger/Database Management Librarian
Memorial Library, Marquette University
P.O. Box 3141
Milwaukee, WI 53201-3141
dwinells at vms.csd.mu.edu
414-288-3542