[WEB4LIB] FW: Web Log Analysis

Mary Pugh mpugh at orcaslibrary.org
Thu Jan 11 18:32:28 EST 2001


Charles,
  Would you be willing to share your script?


At 02:40 PM 1/11/01 -0800, Gimon, Charles A wrote:
>1. I produce and distribute a monthly report which includes:
>
>--Unique Daily Visitors for the month
>--Total Page Hits overall
>--Top Pages overall
>--Top Categories in the LIST (our web directory)
>--Top Subscription Databases by Clickthrough
>--Top Links in the LIST by Clickthrough
>--Search Queries in the LIST, and for our entire site
>--Usage by Domain
>--Usage by Browser/Platform
>--Robot Activity
>--Error logs
>--Referer logs
>
>2. I've always written this stuff from scratch in perl, and customized it
>for my needs. (I can't stand overpriced, underfeatured pre-written software
>for little tasks like this...) This sort of thing isn't rocket science; the
>only thing even possibly off-putting about it is that the files you're
>working with can get awfully large.
>
>--Charles Gimon
>   Web Coordinator
>   Minneapolis Public Library



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