Web site traffic software (ODBC with perl vs. asp)

[Dobbs, Aaron]

Perhaps my understanding of Perl is off, but I believe Perl will recognize 
and interact with ODBC objects.  My understanding is that .asp (server side 
vbscripting) is not the only way to work with Access.  Any object oriented 
language can work with ODBC objects, ie: C*, php/python, Perl(I think), VB, 
etc can be used to interface with the DB object (in your case an Access Db)

Please correct me if I have erred 
(I'm comfy enough with vb, so I use .asp)

-Aaron
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-Opus



Mark Wrote: 

                 <snip>                                            We have 
something that does this, written in perl.  I am re-writing it in ASP
(bleah!) 
to log things to an Access Database.  I am happy to share either system, 
if you are interested.


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Pecaut [mailto:pecautm at missouri.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:16 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Web site traffic software


On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:35:28AM -0700, Ellen Andes wrote:
> I just joined this listserv and it looks like there is a lot of good
> information here.  I am looking for software that will help us  get
> statistics on Web site traffic.  For instance, what sites do students
access

Web traffic on your site?  This is all in your webserver logs.  You can
use logfile analysis software to produce nice looking reports.  Two very
good free ones are webalizer 
http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/
 and analog 
http://www.analog.cx

> most?  We have some of this through our database vendors, but I am hoping
to
> see where students are looking for information when they are not working
> through our licensed databases.  Two software packages that I am aware of

If you want statistics on which web-based databases people are using 
the most, you have to count clickthroughs (ie, how many people are clicking
links on your site to other sites).  Your weblogs won't have this
information.
To capture this you have to point your links to a clickthrough counting
script
that logs what you want and sends the user where they want to go.  We have 
something that does this, written in perl.  I am re-writing it in ASP
(bleah!) 
to log things to an Access Database.  I am happy to share either system, 
if you are interested.

> are Access Watch and Counter.com. I'd appreciate suggestions from those of
> you who have used this type of software or know of a good product.

For some good information on tracking users, see 
http://www.arsdigita.com/books/panda/user-tracking

-Mark
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