Reading Access Logs

[brian 2468]

I use.. Analog 5.1a to read my access logs. which one of these stats shows how many actual pageviews

Successful requests: 1,285
Average successful requests per day: 1,800
Successful requests for pages: 256
Average successful requests for pages per day: 357
Failed requests: 59
Distinct files requested: 355
Distinct hosts served: 57
Data transferred: 10.566 Mbytes
Average data transferred per day: 14.815 Mbytes

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[esccanada]

<SCTV> OK eh. Like I'll give this a try, eh. ;) </SCTV>

Successful requests for pages: 256
This shows the number of page views (literally what you asked for). This could, however, contain a count of the same page. I doubt there is a discrimination of individual pages. For example, if page index.html was viewed 10 times and page hello.html was viewed 4 times, this line may read 14 instead of 2.

Distinct hosts served: 57
This shows how many visitors. It says Distinct so I assume that means it weeds out multiple visits from the same IP address.

Hope that helps.

Cheers.

[brian 2468]

esccanada.....thanks....yes it does.......

Average successful requests per day: 1,800 ....... could this be search engine related

[esccanada]

Each request would be for an image, page, etc.

The way HTTP works, each image and page requires a separate request.

If you have a lot of images, external scripts, pages, etc. then there will be a substantial number of requests.

i.e.

If you have a page with 6 images (that's all, pretty simple page) then you will be subject to 7 requests (6 for the images and 1 for the page).

Technically that's a pointless stat in my opinion. But then my opinion is usually wrong ;)

Hope that is clear.

[brian 2468]

esccanada.........Okay now I understand thanks for taking the time out the explain it.....:)