Roxen CMS 5.4 - LogView Module Manual
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1. o o o 11 12 12 12 13 14 15 15 15 15 16 16 16 17 17 if 18 18 18 18 19 19 19 19 1 4 0 1 6 lf 1 8 1 9 1 10 7 11 12 1 13 8 1 8 2 8 3 8 4 10 10 1 10 2 10 2 1 10 2 2 10 2 3 10 3 10 4 10 5 10 6 10 7 10 8 10 9 11 TLA Visitor Origins Authentications Popular Contents Visitor Sessions Visitor Profiles Pathways Search Download Maintenance Extensions Administrating LogView Internal and External Logs Statistics Groups Databases Updates Installing Configuration Update Logs Log to configure Status and Log name Miscellaneous attributes Statistics Groups Example Import Logs Delete Logs Rebuild Delete Statistics Group Report Maker Delete Report Troubleshooting The Installation of LogView Failed 20 20 20 20 21 21 21 22 22 22 23 23 23 23 23 24 25 25 25 25 26 26 26 21 21 28 28 28 28 29 29 1 LogView Module LogView is an integrated log analysis tools can report which pages that are most frequently accessed by whom where from and how Roxen CMS can generate graphs for easy overviewing of a number of different statistics measurements and all data is updated hourly It imports Common Log Format CLF files and also supports log aggregation from several servers into the same report The design allows for more than 1 GB of log data added each day Specifications e Statistics available on activity2. Roxen CMS 5 4 If Roxen Internet Software AB 2011 Roxen Internet Software AB All rights reserved Under the copyright laws this document may not be copied in whole or in part without the written consent of Roxen Internet Software Roxen Internet Software Box 449 SE 581 05 Link ping Sweden www roxen com Your rights to the software are governed by the accompanying software license agreement Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this document is accurate Roxen Internet Software is not responsible for printing or clerical errors Other company and product names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies Roxen Internet Software assumes no responsibility with regard to the performance or use of these products Contents 4 1 4 2 4 3 4 4 6 1 6 2 6 3 6 4 6 5 6 6 6 6 1 6 6 2 6 7 6 7 1 6 7 2 6 7 3 6 7 4 6 7 5 6 8 6 8 1 6 8 2 6 8 3 T A 1 2 1 3 LogView Module Using LogView Logging Sites Statistics Selecting Statistics Group Selecting Period of Time Selecting Kind of Statistics Selecting Format Reports Advanced Selecting Group Selecting Report Selecting Presentation Selecting From and To Values Selecting Display Tables HTML table ASCII table Charts Line chart Bar chart Sum bars chart 2D pie chart 3D pie chart Miscellaneous Map Export Tag Terms and Functions Terms Functions Site Activity o
3. or which are the most popular features on the site The information gathered in the log files can as all statistics information be made to fool those not as attentive or those who do not have any knowledge about the area the statistics is covering Here is a screen shot that there is obviously something fishy about san 0 a s Q i v 2 ro gt A Month Lie W Unique hosts Figure 1 It is easy to fool those who are not paying attention To make the best use of statistics information it is important to know what all functions and special terms concerning LogView means Hence a compilation of all the important terms and functions in LogView can be found in the Terms and Functions page 4 1 4 2 4 3 Statistics The statistics page provides an easily overviewed and almost self explanatory way of looking at statistics gathered by all the functions that are enabled on the current Statistics group Selecting Statistics Group In the field labeled Group the current statistics group is shown If several groups are defined the user can select one of them in a list box By default only one group is defined It takes its data from the log of the Roxen virtual server that LogView is installed on and the name of this group is the same as the name of the server If no hits have been received since the creating of the selected statistics group this is shown by the message No items are logged This should be remedied
4. origins popular content profiles links search engines and more e Handles more than 1 GB of new log data each day e Analyze HTTP FTP and proxy logs e Import and integrate older logs e Aggregate logs from several servers e Group different server logs e Store logs in internal database e Analyze data on any scale yearly to hourly e Compliant with CLF Using LogView LogView lets the user view the gathered statistics in an ordinary web browser If LogView has been installed on the Roxen virtual server with the URL mere hostname intrance The default URL to the LogView configurations page is http hostname intranet logview However the administrator may choose another location within the virtual file system If the administrator has specified that access to the LogView pages should be password protected the user will get a pop up dialog where he has to log in before he can access the LogView page On the top of all the LogView pages there is a button menu which helps the user to navigate between the three pages Report Statistics and Advanced These pages provide different ways of looking at the gathered statistics The main difference between the Statistics Reports and Advanced pages lies in what possibilities the user has to affect the presentation The Reports page contains a number of reports that has been prepared by the administrator and is therefore the most static one all the user needs to do is to select which
5. installed on This log has the same name as the server More logs can be added using the option Import logs below 10 2 2 10 2 3 10 3 Status and Log name Status States whether the information from this log should be updated or not Internal logs are Active or Disabled external are Imported or Disabled Log Name The name used to refer to the log for example when configuring statistics groups Miscellaneous attributes Some of the attributes use Pike regular expressions Download files Served files with names matching this regexp will be counted in the statistics over downloaded files Page regexp Served files with names matching this regexp will be counted in the statistics over served pages Query filter regexp This regexp is used for filtering the query part of a request in the popular pages with queries function Only the query variables that matches the regexp will be displayed Server alias This regexp is used for separating internal links from external when keeping track of the visitor s moves using the Pathways functions Server domain name This value is used when importing Common log files which does not always specify the domain of the server Server URL This URL is used when creating links in tables for example links to the pages in a table over popular pages Statistics Groups The statistics group are configured in another wizard 1 Select the group to configure A new group can be ad
6. up to this point has to be recalculated Selecting Delete will delete the group as well as the data Report Maker A report is a page containing LogView tags tailored by the LogView administrator Here such pages can be created 1 Select the report to edit 2 Edit the RXML code and add LogView tags to create the desired kind of diagrams or tables Here the Advanced page in the LogView interface can be of great help first try out different parameters to get the right look of the diagram or table and then press the Tag button and copy and paste the LogView tag into the report If the report should also be delivered by email select this in the Report by email box 3 If report by email is chosen some additional information has to be specified Fill in the email address and edit the From and Subject fields if necessary Also select how often and if once a week on what week day the report should be sent in the Frequency box 4 Confirm the values as usual and also choose whether a test mail should be sent right away Delete Report In the Delete report wizard the administrator can select a report and delete it 11 11 1 Troubleshooting The first thing to do in case of a problem is to check LogView s error log files and failing that the main Roxen server s error log files Both LogView and Roxen try to generate comprehensible reports on errors that occur Specific problems The Installation of LogView Failed
7. 187 197726 215280 127993 Figure 16 Hits at www roxen com w 05 2001 through w 09 2001 Settings Hits as Weeks per Month Append 6 6 2 ASCII table Year Month Week Domain Pages Hits 1 2001 Jan 05 unknown 1380 12778 2 2001 Feb 06 unknown 7173 104718 3 2001 Feb 06 telia com 700 10445 4 2001 Feb 06 liu se 491 7132 5 2001 Feb 06 aol com 684 6934 6 2001 Feb 06 t dialin net 400 4912 7 2001 Feb 06 home com 355 4893 8 2001 Feb 06 uu net 193 2946 9 2001 Feb 06 rr com 180 2245 10 2001 Feb 06 co uk 175 2155 11 2001 Feb 06 airmail net 486 1678 12 2001 Feb 06 swipnet se 107 1523 13 2001 Feb 06 inktomi com 285 1320 14 2001 Feb 06 bredbandsbolaget se 109 1269 15 2001 Feb 06 mediaone net 81 1107 16 2001 Feb 06 pacbell net 65 1071 17 2001 Feb 06 mebone net 76 1030 18 2001 Feb 06 telocity com 74 1019 19 2001 Feb 06 ne jp 97 1015 20 2001 Feb 06 btinternet com 95 1009 Figure 17 Most active domains at www roxen com w 05 2001 through w 06 2001 Settings Most active domains as Week per Month Sum 6 Charts 6 7 1 Line chart Figure 18 Unique hosts at www roxen com January 2001 through February 2001 Unique hosts 8k 6k 4k 2k 5 S Year Month Week 2001 Jan 05 2001 Feb 06 Z Uniq ue hosts Setting Unique hosts as Week per Month Append 6 7 2 Bar chart Year Month Week Search engine Yahoo Lycos Excite Hotbot 5 i gt a lt S O i N Writs Figure 19 Search e
8. 6 4 Hits Search engine Altavista Yahoo Lycos Excite Hotbot Waits Figure 13 Sum Another scenario is when the user has set the report to days per week and the time period is three weeks where Append will present it as three weeks in a row Sum will instead present it as one week where each weekday is the sum of that weekday in all three weeks Due to lack of Space no screen shots of this scenario is possible in the manual There is also a possibility to set the maximum number of rows to be shown The term rows seem to imply the use of a table but the limitation works on all kinds of diagrams as well and then limits the number of bars pie slices or other corresponding items Selecting From and To Values Year Month Day From 2001 January 1 o To 2001 amp February 310 Figure 14 Select time period The user can specify the exact time period for which statistics should be shown by selecting the years months and days for the beginning and end of the period 6 5 Selecting Display Display Table Line chart Bar chart Sum bars 2D pie 3D pie Map asi CE Tag Figure 15 Select display type When the user has specified all of the above she can start the display process by pressing one of the display buttons in the row at the bottom of the page These are divided into categories by their form of presentation 6 6 Tables 6 6 1 HTML table 12778 259
9. Access Control Search Engine LogView Configuration Report Statistics Advanced Event log Configure Update Update logs and groups manually Logs View log status and change log configuration Reset log Delete only the contents of the log Delete log Delete the log and forget it altogether Statistics groups If LogView is run as a part of CMS Advanced the administration interface will be found on the LogView tab under the Plugins tab in the Content Editor The administrator of the Roxen WebServer can also reach the configuration interface at the URL pointing at the subdirectory admin under the LogView directory itself http virtual server name logview admin The password used here is the same as for the configuration interface of Roxen WebServer In this page a number of aspects of LogView s behavior can be configured All of these aspects have a section below Update Here the administrator can manually force an instant update of the statistics gathering which otherwise takes place once an hour This can be used for presenting really fresh statistics or for testing purposes Update status shows whether the update process is already running at the moment and if so its process number Logs A wizard guides the administrator through the steps needed to configure the logs Log to configure By default LogView is configured with one log the log of the virtual server that LogView is
10. Authentications Gives information about user logins Authenticated users Gives a summary of the number of hits time period and authenticated user Authenticated hosts amp users Gives a summary of the number of hits time period host name and the authenticated user Popular Contents This group of function monitors what has been requested on the site Popular pages Gives a summary of hits time period and page Popular non pages Gives a summary of hits time period and non page where non pages are all files which are not pages e g a zip file or a pdf document Popular directories Gives a summary of hits time period and directory Visitor Sessions This group of functions gives information about visitors coherent sessions Average hits amp pages per session This function calculates the average number of hits and the average number of pages per time period and session 1 8 ee pans Average session length This function calculates the average session length in minutes per time unit Most frequent entry pages Sums the number of hits per time period and page where the page is the first page accessed in a session Most frequent exit pages Sums the number of hits per time period and page where the page is the last page accessed in a session Visitor Profiles This group of functions gives miscellaneous information about the users Most common OS Sums the number of hits per operating system and ti
11. Authentications Authenticated users Download Authenticated hosts amp users Download hits Popular files Popular contents Popular pages Maintenance Popular pages with queries Return code summary Popular non pages Error code specification Popular directories Extensions Visitor sessions Unique hosts Average hits amp pages per session Average session length Most frequent entry pages Most frequent exit pages Visitor profiles Most common OS Most common browser Most common browser amp version Most common browser version amp OS Figure 3 Select statistics function Selecting Format Once the user has selected the kind of statistics to show a report is displayed at the bottom of the page This report is in a default format that is dependent of the kind of Statistics that was selected If the user is not pleased with this format she can choose another one in the list box in the title of the report Below is a selection of Statistics reports for www roxen com during week 6 2001 These reports selected by first choosing the www roxen com group then clicking on 2001 Feb and last week 6 roxen com Download hits Week 6 2001 as imechart Select roxen com Download hits Week 6 2001 Download hits 200 Year Week Day Tu We Thu Fr Sa Su 2001 06 Mon Z Download hits Figure 4 Download hits line chart This report is selected by clicking on the function Download hits and then choosing line cha
12. This is typically due to one of the following things e The server may not have write permission in the log files directory or may lack permission to read some of the files in the LogView distribution The main server s error log files will contain information about which file accesses has failed e LogView was instructed to store its logs and groups files in a directory other than the default logview data and this directory did not exist Such directories must be created manually
13. dated each hour rather than once every day Update nice value The nice value of the update process If set to a higher value the update process will not be as efficient at getting system resources as other processes running on the computer Often it is more important that the actual web server gets system resources than the update process and in that case it makes sense to give ita high nice value Minimize load If set to Yes LogView will try not to run updates concurrently even if it is used in several virtual servers Log path Specifies the directory where LogView will put its own logs The default value is logs new logview data Note Please use different directories for every LogView installation Otherwise the state of the internal LogView files will become unclear and LogView will fail to operate correctly Enable lt logview gt tag If disabled the LogView tag will only work inside the LogView user interface pages If enabled the tag can be used on any page on the virtual server as described in the section Putting reports on other pages in the User s manual The default value is No 10 10 1 10 2 10 2 1 Configuration As mentioned earlier LogView is installed with a default configuration If this configuration needs to be changed this is done via the LogView administration interface This is a part of the LogView user interface that can only be accessed by the administrator Files
14. ded by choosing that option and filling in the name 2 Specify the logs to include in this group These logs are divided into e Logs from the current virtual server either the server s own log or imported logs e Logs from remote virtual servers on which LogView is also installed In the list check the logs that should be included 3 Choose the kind of statistics to collect Just select the function groups that are of interest 10 4 10 5 4 Fill in some parameters e Max table size This restricts the amount of data to be stored in the database for each of the functions enabled on this statistics group to save disk space and computational time e Ignore hosts Here a regular expression matching hosts that are to be ignored in the Statistics can be specified e Ignore pages A regular expression matching pages that are to be ignored in the Statistics This is useful in intranets where statistics are wanted from all hosts excluding certain pages i e LogView s e Include pages If you specify a regular expression here the page must match this expression to be included in the statistics If you leave this setting empty all pages are included unless they match the Ignore pages expression Example The sites Keio rR ne nals Com aeea a halpoO Oremus om are located at the sister companies Ceros and Potamus The administrators of the sites only want statistics of hits from outside these two companies T
15. earch engine and the phrase a search string Search engines Sums the number of hits per search engine where the previous page was a search engine Download This group of functions monitors which downloads have been made Download hits Sums the number of hits per time period where the filename matches the user variable Download files i e total number of downloads Popular files Sums the number of hits per time period and filename where the filename matches the user variable Download files i e sorted by files Maintenance This group of functions gives information necessary for troubleshooting Return code summary Sums the number of returned status codes Error code specification Sums the number of returned status codes per time period and filename where the status code is an error code i e separated from 200 and the interval 300 399 Extensions This function monitors the number of unique hosts who have accessed the site Unique hosts Sums the number of hits per time period and unique host where a host can be represented by a hostname or an IP number It should be noted that both hostname and IP number can represent the same host which implies that they will be counted as two different hosts This is a known bug 8 1 8 2 8 3 8 4 Administrating LogView This is the administrator s part of the LogView manual This part contains information of how to install and configure LogView but to inc
16. get the information needed to calculate the statistics from the database Updates Once a day once an hour or when the administrator uses the Update command LogView performs an update operation This has effects on both logs and databases All imported external logs are checked and the last hour s hits are appended to a corresponding internal LogView log The logs created by LogView itself are not affected since they are updated automatically after every access to their virtual server The databases of the statistics groups are updated with the data gathered during the last hour making the new data visible in the statistics Installing For Roxen Platform LogView is installed automatically when you enable a SiteBuilder virtual server When the module is enabled the next step is usually to go to LogView configuration interface It is found under LogView in the Plugins tab However it is a good idea to check if the default values need any modification This is done by selecting the LogView option that has now appeared in the list of installed modules In the following sections the different options under the LogView module configuration are explained Mount path Specifies the place in the virtual file system of the server where the LogView user interface can be accessed The default value is logview Update hour Which hour LogView should update the statistics groups Can be set to Every hour if the statistics should be up
17. his is done by setting Ignore hosts to the value ceros comS potamus comS Import Logs Using this wizard the administrator can specify existing logs in the Common log format to be imported into LogView Common Log Format file name Specify the full path to the log file Log name Specify a unique name for this log Fill in values for a number of log attributes Follow the same procedure as in the Logs section above Select a statistics group to contain the new log A new Statistics group can be added by selecting that option and specifying the name Configure the statistics group This is done as described in the section Statistics groups above 10 6 10 7 10 8 10 9 Delete Logs After selecting the log that is to be deleted the administrator has the choice of keeping or deleting the log configuration Selecting to keep will only delete the contents of the log and LogView will continue to extract statistics from the log in the future Selecting to delete will make LogView forget about the log altogether as well as delete the log file Rebuild Delete Statistics Group After selecting the appropriate group the administrator has the choice of only deleting the gathered data or the entire group just as was the case with the logs in the previous section Selecting Rebuild will only delete the data and then rebuild it from the logs This could be used when a new log is added to the group and the statistics for the past
18. it s own bar and the label Year Week Day e g 2001 25 Tue the user can select the report to be shown as day per week A report that is as day per month has the label Year Month Day e g 2001 Jun 19 on its bars instead Trying to set the as value larger than the per value gives the following error message LogView Error unit cannot be greater than per Setting both values equal has an interesting effect when using the Sum feature as we will see in the next section Selecting Presentation Presentation Append max 100 rows Figure 11 Select presentation In the first list box the user can choose between Append or Sum Append is the default and gives sums for each day week month or year Using the Sum feature changes this behavior somewhat instead of summing the data inside each day month or year the data for several such units can be summed to answer questions like how many hits were processed in total between 2000 10 02 and 2000 11 11 However to use this feature we have to use the trick to set the as and per time periods the same The two pictures below show the difference in Append and Sum when the setting is week per week The report is Search engines and the time period is between 2001 02 05 and 2001 02 18 Hits 250 200 150 100 50 0 8 8 gg 6 2 3 6 n amp 8 S Year Week Search engine 28 gt 5 2S FS 7 Ts lt lt 2 9 S S N Ty Wits Figure 12 Append
19. me period Most common browser Sums the number of hits per browser and time period Most common browser amp version Sums the number of hits per unique browser version and time period Most common browser version amp OS Sums the number of hits per unique browser version its operating system and time period Pathways This group of functions monitors links that point towards the site Internal links pages Sums the number of hits to the linked page the To page where the link page the From page was an internal page Pages that match the user variables Server Domain Name or Server Alias are counted as internal pages e g all pages on your site com are internal pages External links pages Sums the number of hits to the linked page where the link page was an external page External links non pages Calculates the number of hits to files which are not pages e g zip files and pdf documents Search This group of functions gives information about visitors who have found the site using search engines Search hits Sums the number of hits where the previous page was a search engine 11 oe TLS Search words Sums the number of words in the search string per time period where the previous page was a search engine The stop words and or not the an a is and are are not counted Search phrases Sums the number of phrases per time period where the previous page was a s
20. n control all of LogView s capabilities for viewing statistics Display Group roxen com _t select fae Line chart l Report Hits Bar chart Sum bars 2D pie Day o Pa Day oj 3D pie l Map l Presentation Append max 100 rows Ascii Export Year Month Day Tag From 2001 January 1 o To 2001 December 31 Figure 8 The advanced statistics page Selecting Group Group roxen com Select Figure 9 Select statistics group As was the case on the Statistics page the statistics group if more than one is available can be selected in a list box Selecting Report Report search engines as Month per Month Figure 10 Select type of report The user can select the kind of report from all the kinds that are available for the selected statistics group in the first list box on the row The list box after as default labeled Day is used to specify the granularity of the diagram or table If days is selected here a resulting bar chart will have one bar for each day for which data is available and a table will accordingly have one row for each day If instead month is selected the bar chart will have one bar for each month with a height that is the the sum of the all the values of the days of this month 6 3 The list box labeled per selects what should be printed for example as labels on the bars of a bar chart To get a chart where each day has
21. ngines at www roxen com w 06 2001 Settings Search engines as Week per Month Append 6 7 3 Sum bars chart Pages Hits 250k 200k 150k 100k 50k 0 T x ke ny z 5 5 g x E Country e D D a z 5 E D k 2 5 D 3 E Z z D 8 2 lt Wa BilPages Writs Figure 20 Most active countries at www roxen com January 2001 through February 2001 Settings Most active countries as Week per Week Sum max 7 rows 6 7 4 2D pie chart Wattavista Wiycos Wrotbot w Yahoo WExcite Figure 21 Search engines at www roxen com January 2001 through February 2001 Settings Search engines as Week per Week Sum 6 7 5 3D pie chart Woo W2001 06 Wo7 Mos Figure 22 Hits at www roxen com January 2001 through February 2001 6 8 6 8 1 6 8 2 6 8 3 Settings Hits as Week per Week Append Miscellaneous Map A world map nice for displaying statistics over Most active countries Not available in any other case Below is a slightly cut version of the map made for this manual Figure 23 Most active countries at www roxen com January 2001 through February 2001 Settings Most active countries as Week per Month Append Export Exports the table in a tab newline separated format suitable for MS Excel Tag Displays the LogView RXML tag with all the parameters that generates the created report Great for cut and paste lt logview group wwy roxen com report Most ac
22. rease the understanding of these subjects we start out with a deeper survey over the LogView system Internal and External Logs LogView handles two types of logs logs that LogView collects itself one for each virtual server it is installed to and log files in Common log format that are created in other ways and imported to LogView The first kind contains the most information and can therefore be used to create more complex statistics All logs that LogView creates are compressed to save disk Space Statistics Groups A statistics group consists of one or more logs as well as a configuration of statistics functions Statistics groups makes it possible to view statistics from several log files for example if the web site is handled by several web servers It is also possible to configure exactly what statistics should be calculated by choosing which statistics functions to enable Databases LogView keeps a database for each function enabled on each statistics group In these databases LogView stores information that has been extracted from the logs by the functions For example if the function Most common browser is enabled on a group a database is created to store the number of hits per used browser type Inside the databases the data is divided into different tables per a time unit most often per day or hour In this way when the user requests a specific kind of statistics for a specific group and time interval LogView can easily
23. report he wishes to see The Statistics page is an easy way to create reports and provides basic possibilities to control what statistics to see and in which form and in the Advanced page the user has even more freedom to control the details These three levels of control possibilities makes it possible to provide quick and easy access for the users who either do not need full control or can have the administrator or site creator tailor a report for them while the users that really need full control over the details can still get it Logging Sites When someone retrieves a page from a web site all the actions this person does are saved to a file in a special log format Every action from downloading files fetching HTML pages with pictures to what web browser or operating system the user has is saved as plain text in this file This file can later be analyzed to find out various behaviors the site s users have The process of building a log file works something like this the user s browser sends requests to your Web server for various resources These resources may include HTML graphics audio and whatever other types of files there are on the site Upon receiving the request from a browser your Web server accesses the file and sends it back to the client browser A lot of useful information is buried in this file With this information it is possible to find out for example where bottlenecks and errors occur in the server or on the site
24. rt from the pull down menu roxen com Download hits Week 6 2001 as barchat 4 Select roxen com Download hits Week 6 2001 Download hits 200 Cc F Year Week Day Tue Thu Fri Sat Wed 2001 06 Mon Wi Download hits Figure 5 Download hits bar chart This report is selected by clicking on the function Download hits and then choosing bar chart from the pull down menu roxen com External links pages Week 6 2001 as t Select Rows1 100 of 500 last 100 next 100 all 1 httpv www roxen com products index xml 528 2 http wwew roxen com products products webserver index xml 368 3 http www roxen com findex zml 249 4 http wwew roxen com froxen index zml 233 Figure 6 External links pages table This report is selected by clicking on the function External links pages and then choosing table from the pull down menu roxen com Return code summary Week 6 2001 as sDpie chart Select roxen com Return code summary Week 6 2001 W200 ox 206 302 Temporary relocation 9304 Not modified Bi401 Access denied W404 No such file or directory Figure 7 Return code summary 3D pie chart This report is selected by clicking on the function Return code summary and then choosing 3d pie chart from the pull down menu 5 Reports The report page is used for viewing reports that have been prepared by the LogView administrator 6 6 1 6 2 Advanced In this page the user ca
25. t name where the hits have occurred up to 20 minutes between each other Period of time time period In LogView reports can be created to show the data between two points of time What is in between those two points of time is the period of time User variable Variables which the administrator or the privileged user can set in one of the LogView wizards found in the configurations interface Some of the functions makes use of these variables when monitoring the log files This term is only used when describing some of the functions below Functions This part describes all the functions used to present data about the site in LogView Site Activity This group of functions monitors the overall activity on the site Hits Gives a Summary of the number of hits during the period of time 1 4 es 1 6 lal Page load Sums the number of hits per time period and page Bandwidth Calculates the average number of sent bits per second and time period Visitor Origins This group of functions monitors where hits originate from Most active countries This function describes which countries are generating the most hits Most active domains This function tells which internet domains are responsible for generating most hits A domain can be roxen com foobar net etc Most active hosts This term gives a summary of each host s hits The most active host is the one who has the most hits A host can be e g an IP number
26. tive countries unit month per year op sum max from year 1998 from month 3 from day 1 to year 1999 nth to day 31 display world map gt Figure 24 Most active countries at www roxen com September 1998 through July 1999 Settings UTSL Use the source Luke or read the tag code and find out the right settings 1 tae 1 3 Terms and Functions Terms This part describes the difficult words and terms in LogView These words are either web analysis terms or used by LogView to describe its functions Bandwidth In a general sense this term describes information carrying capacity In LogView this applies to how much data in bits per second that has been transferred from the server Hit A hit is a request from a browser to the server Every element of a requested page text pictures and interactive items is counted as one hit to the server A normal web page contains an average of at least six elements i e six hits Hits is not the preferred way of measuring traffic on a site as the number of hits often varies widely Page load Page load page views or page deliveries gives the number of times a web page has been requested Page load not hits are the preferred counting method site traffic estimates and measurement Search engine The search functions can identify the following search engines AOL Netfind Alta Vista Excite Infoseek Hotbot Lycos and Yahoo Session A session is tied to a hos
27. within one hour after the site has been accessed Group download roxen com Select Period of time March 2001 Year Month Week Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 2001 Mar 10 Figure 2 Select group and period of time Selecting Period of Time In the Period of time box the period of time for which to show statistics can be specified The currently selected period of time is displayed within parentheses right next to the label on the top of the box The highlighted periods inside the box are the ones for which logged data is available and clicking one of them simply selects that period of time By default only years and months are shown but once a month is selected the box is expanded to also contain weeks and days On the Statistics page statistics can only be shown for a single year month week or day To specify a more exact time interval the user has to go to the Advanced page Selecting Kind of Statistics Below the Period of time box a number of available functions are listed in groups To see statistics of a certain kind the user just has to select the corresponding function in the list An overview over the functions can be found in the Terms and Functions page 4 4 Site activity Pathways Hits Internal links pages Page load External links pages Bandwidth External links non pages Visitor origins Search Most active countries Search hits Most active domains Search words Most active hosts search phrases search engines
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