counters on web pages

[Michael Squires (michael)]

Since you want not only page counts but also some sense of how people browse
your site (e.g., always start at the time or bookmark straight to a
particular branch library section) the counters you see on web pages won't do
you any good. (They are generally useless.)

Your web server software can log every page fetch from your site. You can
then process these logs to find out how many hits each page (or area) get,
and you use the logs to do "traffic analysis", where you find out things like
"most of the visitors to my site start at the top and go straight to the
branch library information and don't ever look at this month's staff
suggestions" (or whatever you learn).

Check with your webmaster, or if that's you, read the documentation for your
web server.

Good luck.

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Mia Sansen [SMTP:Mia.Sansen at bib.kuleuven.ac.be]
	Sent:	Wednesday, March 11, 1998 1:44 AM
	To:	Multiple recipients of list
	Subject:	counters on web pages

	After having checked the list archives, I have found very little of
recent 
	information and unbroken links in the former answers on that topic. I
am 
	looking for software permitting to see the number of visitors on the 
	different library webpages. The purpose is not only to count and have
the 
	figures of the number of visitors, but also to see if the branch
libraries 
	pages are accessed directly or if most of the visitors go through the
main 
	library page. That should indicate where to put the general
information all 
	visitors should know.
	Thank you for the help