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1. 3 1 User Interface Home screen On program startup you ll see a Home screen that helps you to quickly and easily choose a task that you want to accomplish You can also invoke it by choose Help Home screen from the main menu or use toolbar icon Home Ki Open Existing File 1 Last 30 days wls 2 Year for HTML files wls 3 All files not found wls Press and hold Shift key while openning project to see other options Start New Project Load Sample Data La e Gel See On line Demos Read User Manual Open Existing File Start New Project Load Sample Data See On line Demos Choose this option to open an existing project wls file from a local disk Recently used projects are listed below this option and you will be able to open them directly by clicking on the file name Normally when the project is opened the software displays the Open project tasks 324 window If this option is turned off you can force the window to be displayed by holding the Shift key Create new project file Open the sample project and log files included in the installation Logs are randomly generated by us and they are not based on any real life data Watch on line demos on the web 2003 2015 Dataland Software User Interface Read User Manual Open help file See also Open project tasks window 32 Project properties 257 21 2003 2015 Dataland Software 22
2. Based on IP and timeout IP Based on IP only All Human EE Spiders JavaScript Only Split Panes H NM D Options 35 Find 405 Find Next 2 Refresh If this option is selected reports are based on time limited sessions If selected reports are based on time unlimited sessions That means that all hits from same IP address will be included in one session Use this option to easily see reports based on visitors instead on time limited sessions View all visitors View only visitors identified as human View only visitors identified as spiders bots crawlers View only visitors with JavaScript enabled Requires Hybrid analysis 16 Pro Split Reports and Parameters panes especially useful for wide screens and multiple monitors setup Program options Search current report for text Find next occurrence of searched text Recalculate current report See also Page tagging for hybrid analysis 167 Options 354 Spiders editor 454 Find 405 3 2 4 Tools menu This menu contains various tools Host Resolving 4 Edit Goals 33 gt Parsing Problems 47 gt Folders gt Operating Systems Ai Browsers 44 Search Engines 445 Status and Errors Ai Spider User Agents 45 gt Spider Domains 45 Host resolving tool find domain name from IP Pro Edit goals Pro See parsing problems Easily locate settings and error log files Edit operating systems identification list
3. Bars represent average or total data size transferred in date time range Red line represents a cumulative average an average of all previous values For example the first value is same as the first bar value second is an average of first and second bar value and so forth Blue line is a moving average an average of last 10 configurable 804 bar values See also Trend parameters 80 Parameters 744 4 2 4 Bps trend This report shows transfer speed between the start and end dates Click on any bar to see list of sessions from a particular day or range depending on grouping options 80 2003 2015 Dataland Software 54 Web Log Storming This report requires a Time taken value in log files By default Apache Combined log file format doesn t contain this value Bars represent average transfer speed in date time range Red line represents a cumulative average an average of all previous values For example the first value is same as the first bar value second is an average of first and second bar value and so forth Blue line is a moving average an average of last 10 configurable 804 bar values See also Trend parameters 80 Parameters 74 2003 2015 Dataland Software Reports 55 4 3 Top files and queries 4 3 1 All files This report shows all files accessed by visitors regardless of type Count is the number of sessions that accessed a file at le
4. MaxComponents Auto update component http www maxcomponents net Icons http www icons icons com http www famfamfam com http www dsbglobal com rn O 2003 2015 Dataland Software 86 Web Log Storming 6 3 Contact Company page http www datalandsoftware com Product page http www weblogstorming com Tech support support datalandsoftware com General office datalandsoftware com Dataland Software Milovana Glisica 7 21000 Novi Sad Serbia www E mail Physical address 2003 2015 Dataland Software Index 87 Index operator 82 operator 82 zm operator 82 4 404 report 69 Ns advantages 4 all files report 55 analyze 15 auto check for updates 35 B bandwidth 5 bandwidth trend report 53 bookmarks 72 bookmarks menu 22 bps 5 bpw trend report 53 browsers configuration 44 Browsers editor 44 browsers report 67 browsing 15 buy 84 caching 35 cities report 66 clipboard linestocopy 35 company hompage 86 compare editions 6 contact 86 cookie ids 66 countries report 66 Credits 85 custom ip resolving 42 D date parameters 75 default report settings 35 define project 25 differences 4 directories report 58 domains report 67 download log files 29 duration 65 Ez edit project 25 errors report 69 examples wildcards 82 export lines to export 35 extensions report 57 F file form
5. Parsing problems 477 option and send us a sample for further analysis O 2003 2015 Dataland Software 4 Web Log Storming 1 3 Differences Web Log Storming is a web log analyzer that clearly stands out from the crowd with its unique features Compared to JavaScript web analytics Compared to other log analyzers Code editing cookies or scripts not required but optional for hybrid analysis Uses existing log files even from the past and you are free to switch from or to another software without losing information Full control data is kept on your computer and or server it s not collected or used by third parties No foreign scripts In addition to privacy concerns every script hosted on another domain slows your website down and or there s a risk they won t load or that are blocked by browser Shows any file type visits you see stats for other files not just pages images videos PDFs EXE ZIP Shows access errors you can investigate any error such are missing files internal server errors access to forbidden areas etc Spiders bots easily include or exclude spider visits from reports with just one click Bandwidth control see if anyone is wasting your bandwidth by repeatedly downloading large files embedding images to their pages etc Code editing cookies or scripts optional for hybrid analysis but not required Flexible and interactive reports don t jus
6. Part 10 Web Log Storming Getting started First time users may need an assistance to start using Web Log Storming To understand why Web Log Storming is different from other web log analyzers please read the Overview 24 and Differences from other web log analyzers 44 pages Also if you are not familiar with log analysis you might need explanations about the terminology 54 we use in the software and this document Once you are ready continue with one of following topics 1 Choose log files to process 114 2 See statistics 154 a Browse through statistics 154 b Use parameters 154 3 Improving performance 174 2003 2015 Dataland Software Getting started 11 2 1 Choose log files Web Log Storming is project based software It uses its own file format WLS that defines essentials like log file locations basic configuration and global filters To quickly analyze your log raw files without any pre configuration simply drag them from the Windows Explorer to the Web Log Storming main window However although convenient this method is not suitable for more serious log analysis Step 0 Locate raw log files Web Log Storming doesn t require you to embed any code into web pages Instead it uses raw log files to create stats and you ll need to locate them before using Web Log Storming Log files are originally located on your web server and you can usually download them usin
7. Web Log Storming 3 2 3 2 1 3 2 2 3 2 3 Main Menu File menu This menu contains basic file and print operations New Project 255 Open Project Ctrl 0 H Dit Save Project Ctrl S Save Project As Recent Properties 254 F10 Export DER Send by E mail Print Selected Report Ctrl P w Ai Ctrl C D Copy to Clipboard Exit Alt F4 See also Project Properties 254 Log File Locations editor 34 Bookmarks menu Professionall 64 edition only This menu contains bookmark options Add Current Report to Ctrl D Bookmarks 7 Update Bookmark Rename Bookmark Delete Bookmark See also Bookmarks 7A View menu This menu allows you to change viewing options Style Create new project file wls Open existing project file wls Save project to disk Save project under another name List of recently used projects Edit project properties 254 Export all reports to HTML pages Pro Send selected report by e mail opens E mail client Pro Print selected report Pro Copy the contents of the selected report to clipboard Pro Close application Adds currently visible report to bookmarks If currently visible report is a bookmark use this option to remember parameter changes Change the selected bookmark s name Delete the currently selected bookmark Change visual style of user interface 2003 2015 Dataland Software User Interface 23
8. Edit browsers identification list Edit search engines identification list Edit status and errors descriptions Edit User Agents used by spiders bots crawlers Edit IP and domain names used by spiders bots crawlers See also Host Resolving 41 Goals 334 Parsing problems 474 Advanced Editors Ai 2003 2015 Dataland Software 24 Web Log Storming 2003 2015 Dataland Software User Interface 25 3 3 Project Properties Essential data including log file locations 2 date limits and other settings are defined in the Project properties window These options are separated into two tabs General and Global Filters General r Project properties General Global Filters Replace file names Log files ftp myserver com logs gz Dates Read all not recommended for large number of log files Read last 10 days Read between Your domains comma or semicolon separated acme com Default index file index html Time zone correction 2 hours 0 minutes Convert URLs to lowercase F Multiple sites in one log file Consider queries as part of filename E Automatically resolve IPs save en Help Log files You can choose one or more log file sets locations Logs will be combined they don t need to originate from the same website and they can be even written in different f
9. In addition to standard web log analyzer features Web Log Storming allows you to a Track individual visitors with or without cookies including previous visits and paths through the web site Easily improve your ROI stop wasting money and bandwidth with low quality traffic Extensive on the fly filtering and complete interactivity lets you to create new reports in seconds Hybrid analysis optionally include self hosted script to collect additional information Check if visitors behave as you expect Determine if your links are prominent enough Practically unlimited number of interactive reports and graphs Your web logs are kept in fast computer memory allowing you to view filtered results immediately Keep your log files compressed to save disk space it uncompresses zip gz and tar files automatically Cache previously read log files for faster analysis Connect to FTP or HTTP server and download updated log files automatically Export reports to HTML files send them by e mail or copy them to the clipboard OOO O OOOO OO See also Getting started 105 User interface 205 Reports 504 Parameters 744 Other information 845 2003 2015 Dataland Software Introduction 3 1 2 Log file formats Currently Web Log Storming supports a Apache Combined log file format a NGINX Combined log file format a IIS W3C Extended log file format If you have problems with your log file format you can use Tools
10. TC 85 N OT Te CT SE 86 Index 87 2003 2015 Dataland Software Introduction Part Web Log Storming 1 1 Introduction Overview You won t believe how much additional information you can get from your web logs Web Log Storming is an interactive desktop based Web Log Analyzer for Windows The whole new concept of log analysis makes it clearly different from any other web log analyzer 44 8 en ny et rotos La am ze um A wee Dee Zen DL Biter mem gt HA Kenn ps mem ep ag Yie ee SR eer e etereres Orbea tetec eu as eas San ts Web Log Storming does far more than just generate common reports it displays detailed web site statistics with interactive graphs and reports Very complete detailed log analysis of activity from every visitor to your web site is only a mouse click away It s easy to track sessions hits page views downloads or whatever metric is most important to each user You can look at referring pages and see which search engines and keywords were used to bring visitors to the site Web site behavior from the top entry and exit pages to the paths that users follow can be analyzed You can learn which countries and cities Pro your visitors came from and which operating systems and browsers they use You ll learn how your bandwidth is being used and how much time users spend on your site You can tell how popular your files images directories and queries are
11. can switch between different reports for easy comparison You can choose from pre defined basic reports and configure them to get an unlimited number of different reports In this chapter you will learn about each one of these pre defined basic reports and the use of parameters 744 and bookmarks 72 Pro features to create additional customizable reports O 2003 2015 Dataland Software Reports 51 4 1 Overview Overview report gives you the summary information about the web log data currently loaded into the memory Dates covered Start date Date and time of the first hit End date Date and time of the last hit Total time Difference between the start and end dates Sessions and Hits Total sessions Total number of sessions Average session per day Average number of sessions per day 24 hours Calculation is based on Total time value not on the number of days covered For example Total time 12 hours Total sessions 1000 Average 2000 Total hits Total number of hits Average hits per day Average number of hits per day 24 hours also based on Total time value Average hits per session Average number of hits in one session Page views and Downloads Total different pages viewed Number of pages viewed at least once in a session Three hits on the same page in one session is considered as one page view Average different pages viewed per session Average number of different page views per s
12. 2015 Dataland Software 62 Web Log Storming 4 4 3 Search Engines This report shows search engines that visitors came from It is similar to the Referrer Groups 61 report except it contains only search engines recognition list is configurable in Search Engines 62 gt editor Referrer Group Search engine group name Count Number of sessions initiated by search engine Percent Share of total referrals Bw Sess Average data transferred per session that was initiated by a specific search engine Percent Bounce rate in percents Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Search Engines editor 444 Goals 334 Parameters 745 4 4 4 Search Engine Phrases This report shows search phrases used by visitors Phrase Phrase text Pages Originating search result page number or range Count Number of sessions initiated by specific search phrase Percent Share of total referrals Bw Sess Average data transferred per session that was initiated by a specific phrase Percent Bounce rate in percents Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Search Engines editor 444 Goals 334 Parameters 745 2003 2015 Dataland Software Reports 4 45 Search Engine Words This report shows search engine words used by visitors Word Word text Count Number of sessions initiated by specific
13. Software 32 Web Log Storming 3 5 Open project tasks When you open a project file you will be able to choose an action r Open project Please choose an action EE gt Skip download gt Open for editing first Y Don t ask me again As If you turn this window off in the future press and hold Shift key while opening project to see it again Download if needed and Opens project file downloads the log files if needed and analyzes them analyze This is the default action Skip download If project contains a FTP or HTTP location 2 Web Log Storming will not download log files Instead it will only analyze logs previously downloaded Open for editing first If you want to change project options or global filters 25 before an analysis use this action Don t ask me again Check this box to avoid showing this window every time you open a project file and the software will perform the default action Just analyze You ll still be able to choose a different task by holding Shift key while the project is opened See also Project Properties 284 Log File Location editor 29 2003 2015 Dataland Software User Interface 33 3 6 Edit Goals Professional 6 edition only We believe every webmaster should optimize their web site to accomplish their goals Examples of user defined goals include getting the visitor through the web site to the order or subsc
14. also Path parameters 804 Goals 334 Parameters 744 Paths This report shows list of paths through website By adjusting Path parameters 804 you can control the way paths will be grouped By default this report is not grouped Path Sequence of pages files Count Number of sessions used specific sequence 2003 2015 Dataland Software Reports 65 Percent Share of total visits Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Path parameters 80 Goals 334 Parameters 745 4 5 4 Time Spent This report shows visit durations per groups If you don t use Hybrid analysis 16 this information can only be extracted from log files meaning that only the time of the hit will be taken in the consideration there is no way to know how much time visitor spent reading the last page he visits However if you do use Hybrid analysis 16 it will be more accurate as the script will periodically make artificial hits as long visitor moves a mouse over the page at least a bit Time Spent Group of visit duration Count Number of sessions that belong to specific group Percent Share of total visits Bandwidth Total data transferred by sessions from this group Percent Share of total bandwidth Bw Sess Average data transferred per session that belong to this group Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also
15. click on any item to see all sessions related to the item For example in the Countries 68 report click on the pie slice that represents Canada and you will see all sessions 70 gt from Canada note that the Country parameter value is automatically changed Furthermore in the Sessions 704 report click on a specific session to see its details and hits 70 IP address referrer user agent etc This way you can identify individual visitors and examine their behavior You can also right click on items for more options Web Log Storming has features common to web browsers O Use the Back and Forward buttons to see previously selected reports a Press and hold Ctrl to open a report in new tab O Use the Bookmarks 72 menu to easily see same report in the future An additional tool for browsing is the Keep parameters and select option right click the Reports tree and choose this option to view any report while keeping same parameters ad hoc parameters See also Reports 504 Bookmarks 724 Use parameters An unique feature of Web Log Storming lets you browse with on the fly parameters 744 This lets you easily focus on specific segments without re reading log files When you click report items parameters are automatically set However you will often need to set them manually in the Parameters panel for example if you want to use wildcards segment data by more than one constraint or fine tune them Parameters are grouped b
16. to limit resulting statistics Because of the large number of items you can only select Region and City after you choose Country Operating System Select operating system from the list to limit resulting statistics Browser Select browser from the list to limit resulting statistics Screen Resolutions Select screen resolution Hybrid analysis 16 required Raw User Agent text Enter wildcard 824 for raw user agent Use this when you need advanced filtering i e when Operating System and Browser parameters don t suffice Authenticated user Show results depending on user HTTP Basic Authentication Total session bandwidth Show results depending on total session bandwidth Examples gt 100 KB lt 1 KB See also Advanced Editors 445 2003 2015 Dataland Software 80 Web Log Storming 5 2 5 2 1 5 2 2 Report specific Trend parameters Details for trend type reports are configured here Default values are configured in the Options 37 window Value type When the trend report is grouped by period instead of day it can show average or total numbers Default is average Note that changing this value will not affect the general shape of report but numbers on the left axis could be different If report is grouped by day average and total values are the same and you won t notice any difference Group By When you are analyzing a large time period bars could become too thin to click T
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18. 015 Dataland Software 38 Web Log Storming Network F Options A User interface Y Report defaults SJ ENT E Cache Use proxy server Proxy server Proxy port Username and Password Custom IP resolving URL Check even if already resolved Use proxy server Custom IP resolving URL Check even if already resolved For details about how to use this feature and for example please see User Manual If your connection requires using of proxy server turn this option on Enter proxy server name Enter proxy server port Enter username and password if required Professional e edition only URL to check IP before regular resolving Always check even if domain is already resolved It could significantly slow down the process O 2003 2015 Dataland Software User Interface Cache Options Cache log files Maximum cache size Keep files compressed Size on disk Clear Cache See also Parameters 74 Custom IP resolving 424 Log file cache Cache log files Maximum cache size in MB 0 no limit Keep files compressed Size on disk O B Save parsed log files for faster analyzing next time Delete old cache when total size exceeds designated size Slightly slows down reading but significantly reduces disk space Current cache size on disk Delete all cache files 39 O 2003 2015 Dataland Soft
19. Goals 337 2003 2015 Dataland Software 60 Web Log Storming See also Goals 335 Parameters 74 2003 2015 Dataland Software Reports 4 4 4 4 1 4 4 2 61 Referrers Referrer Pages This report shows web pages that visitors came from Referrer Referrer page URL Count Number of sessions initiated by referrer page Percent Share of total referrals Bw Sess Average data transferred per session that was initiated by a specific referrer page Bounces Number of bounces not visited another page and not downloaded a file Percent Bounce rate in percents Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Goals 334 Parameters 744 Referrer Groups This report shows referrer groups that visitors came from Referrer group is the text that remains after removing www page and top level domain parts of URL For example www google com www google co uk and www google co ca all belong to the same group google Referrer Group Referrer group name Count Number of sessions initiated by referrers from the group Percent Share of total referrals Bw Sess Average data transferred per session that was initiated by referrers from a specific group Percent Bounce rate in percents Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Goals 334 Parameters 744 2003
20. P address wildcards to include or exclude from results 2003 2015 Dataland Software 28 Web Log Storming Query Query wildcards to include or exclude from results Referrer Referrer wildcards to include or exclude from results Status Enter status error code to include or exclude from results oa zero bandwidth Check this option to remove all hits with O bytes bandwidth its Replace file names If you wish to replace web server file names during analyzing you can do that here This way any accessed file that matches left column wildcard in reports will be replaced by right column text Examples images anyimage jpg Grouping all hits to images directory as a single imaginary file anyimage jpg gif notimportant css notimportant Grouping all gif and css hits as single imaginary file notimportant See also Log File Location editor 294 Wildcards 824 2003 2015 Dataland Software User Interface 29 3 4 Log File Location In this dialog you can define location of raw log files Web Log Storming supports three types of locations Local FTP and HTTP Available options depend on this location selection Add prefix Any text entered here will be added to file names found in these log files This way you can easily analyze logs from several websites into combined stats and distinguish them by this prefix A prefix behaves like a directory Examples websitel for one
21. Page tagging for hybrid analysis 187 Goals 334 Parametere 744 2003 2015 Dataland Software 66 Web Log Storming 4 6 4 6 1 4 6 2 4 6 3 4 6 4 Visitor info Countries This report shows top countries your visitors originate from based on IP address By clicking a pie slice you can view a list of sessions from a specific country See also Pie parameters 81 Parameters 74 Regions Professional 6 edition only This report shows top regions your visitors originate from based on IP address By clicking a pie slice you can view a list of sessions from a specific region See also Pie parameters 8 Parameters 744 Cities Professional 6 edition only This report shows top cities your visitors originate from based on IP address By clicking a pie slice you can see list of sessions from a specific city See also Pie parameters 81 Parameters 74 Cookie IDs Professional 6 edition only This report shows visitor cookie IDs assigned to each visitor provided JavaScript is enabled It is required to include short script code on your pages for this to work see more information 16 Cookie ID Random Cookie ID assigned to each visitor on first visit Count Number of sessions with specific Cookie ID Bandwidth Total data transferred Percent Share of total bandwidth Bw Sess O 2003 2015 Dataland Software Reports 67 Average data transferre
22. Q Small number of individual lines are corrupted due to server logging error strange requests from robots etc In this case you will see stats as usual but they won t contain these hits in most cases it s safe to ignore these sporadic errors a There s a slight difference from expected log file format for example different date format Your stats will lack of significant amount of data or more likely you will get No data results a Log file format is not supported at all In second or third case please use the Send for analysis button so we can inspect what could be wrong and release a fix if possible See also Log file formats supported 34 2003 2015 Dataland Software Reports 50 Web Log Storming Reports One of main advantages of Web Log Storming is its unique capability to easily change report results browse by clicking on items and drill down into details that other web statistics packages don t provide Each report has both chart and table representation Charts are nicer but tables are more complete and useful especially if you wish to copy data to a spreadsheet for example Just like web browsers Web Log Storming keeps a history of visited reports in the memory allowing you to use Back and Forward buttons for convenient browsing Also starting with version 2 0 Web Log Storming supports a tabbed interface You can open any report in a new tab by holding the Ctrl button This way you
23. Web Log Storming 2003 2015 Dataland Software Web Log Storming User Manual by Dataland Software Thank you for choosing Web Log Storming We are certain that you won t be dissapointed with its abilities to analyze your web stats We hope that this manual will serve you well as an additional guide Contents I Table of Contents Part a fF OND a Part Il Part Ill OO JO OB Go 10 11 12 Part IV 1 2 Introduction 2 ef ES 2 Log file formats narnnsanennnansanannnnnunnannannannannannannannannunnannnnnunaannnnnnnannannannannannannannannannannannannannannnn 3 Differences EE 4 Terminology rre 5 Compare editions e 6 Getting started 10 Choose log files coocoomnnncnacnconannannnnnnnan cnn cnc 11 Analyze statistics economica 15 Browse through Statistics mocooncocccnnnonnnnannnancnsnnan cn cnan rca rca 15 Use Parameter coononcnccninnonicninnninnn rn 15 Page tagging for hybrid analysis OT 16 Improving performance deeg See CCRT CET CCC REECE EEC ECE TOE TTT 17 User Interface 20 Home SCAN A A einen 20 Malin MON a A ccassssvaieccseansovsenescbcnasenscucsuecnscnsssnecuteecsntssvesnnetssauavnesuecsaususuuosseeusncesninececsanesses 22 File menu eSSPPRRIRRRERREERPERRFELFEREREEREEEREERFEERFERFEERFEEREEEREERFERREERFEERFEERFERFEERFEUREEREERFERREEEFEERFELFEERREUEEERREERFEEREELFEERFEUREERREERFEERFEREERR 22 Bookmarks menu sssssssssssscesseeecenseesseessusseessesseeeseusaeeseu
24. an additional tool particularly useful for improving performance If you use global filters to exclude hits that you don t need in your reports you will save a considerable amount of memory which will considerably improve the processing speed For example your pages probably contain logos background buttons divider images stylesheets scripts etc etc Each of these collateral types of files will cause the server to write another hit line in the log file Let s say that you have 10 links to those files on each of your pages and you could easily have more That means that every page view will be recorded as 1 10 11 lines in log file Now if you exclude collateral files by defining global filters in this particular example you will reduce memory consumption by 90 And that means that you will be able to analyze 10 times more data without losing performance or useful information As we have stated Web Log Storming is different than other log analyzers Generating static reports is an easy task Other analyzers can free the memory after creating predefined reports Other analyzers ignore hits visitors that don t meet their filter criteria Other analyzers ignore report items that are not significant enough i e ignoring or grouping rare referrers as Others From the beginning we thought about the idea of live or on the fly filters It means that the software doesn t want to know in advance what reports the user will want It doe
25. ast once not the total number of hits File File name Count Number of sessions accessed file at least once Percent Share of total file visits Bandwidth Total data transferred while retrieving this file Percent Share of total bandwidth Bw Sess Average data transferred per session for the specific file Bounces Number of bounces not visited another page and not downloaded a file Percent Bounce rate in percents Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Goals 334 Parameters 744 4 3 2 Pages This report shows pages accessed by visitors Count is the number of sessions that accessed a page at least once not the total number of hits File Page name Count Number of sessions accessed page at least once Percent Share of total page visits Bandwidth Total data transferred while retrieving this page Percent 2003 2015 Dataland Software 56 Web Log Storming Share of total bandwidth Bw Sess Average data transferred per session for the specific page Bounces Number of bounces not visited another page and not downloaded a file Percent Bounce rate in percents Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Goals 335 Parameters 745 Options 354 4 3 3 Files This report shows files downloaded by visitors Count is the number of sessions that accessed a file at least on
26. ats 3 file menu 22 file parameters 75 file types report 57 file wildcards configuration 35 files report 56 find in report 40 FTP 29 G getting started 10 global filters 25 goals 33 groupby 80 grouping paths 80 2003 2015 Dataland Software 88 Web Log Storming H ht 5 hit colors 35 hits list 70 hits report 70 hits trend reports 53 home screen 20 host resolving 41 42 hosts report 67 howto 11 15 16 17 HTTP 29 hybrid analysis 16 image wildcards configuration 35 images report 57 include unknown parameter 81 include unknown default 35 introduction 2 ipaddress report 67 IP resolving 41 42 aJa javascript 16 L locations editor 29 log file format unsupported 47 log file formats 3 log file locations 29 log files choose 11 moving average 53 80 moving average default 35 N no data report 47 O on the fly filters 74 open project tasks 32 operating systems configuration 44 Operating Systems editor 44 operating systems report 67 Operators 82 options 35 order 84 overview 2 overview report 51 P page not found report 69 page tagging 16 page wildcards configuration 35 pages report 55 parameters 74 parsing problems 47 path 5 path parameters 80 paths report 64 percent limit 81 percent limit default 35 performance 17 pie parameters 81 print lines to print 35 Professional 35 professional edition 6 project properties 25 proxy
27. be separated nn with semicolon or comma Supported operators are without Soft include include if either one of specified conditions is operator fulfilled non Exclude nan Hard include all specified conditions must be fulfilled only makes sense for file parameters 75 mye Except Examples conditionl Session hit qualifies if condition1 is true conditionl Qualifies only if condition1 is false conditionl condition2 Qualifies if condition1 is true and condition2 is false conditionl condition2 Qualifies if either one of conditions is true conditionl condition2 Qualifies if both of conditions are true conditionl condition2 condition3 Qualifies if condition1 is true and either one of remaining conditions is true When there is only one condition without any operator engine behaves same as if you put a operator in front of it For example soft include of single condition means that it must be fulfilled Similarly condition1 condition2 condition3 is same aS conditionl condition2 condition3 In both examples conditions 1 and 2 must be true because of operator but one of remaining soft conditions must also be true and there s only one conditionl condition2 Qualifies if condition1 is true and condition2 is false conditionl condition2 Qualifies only if condition1 is false except when condition2 is true conditionl condition2 Qualifies only if condition1 is t
28. ce not the total number of hits File File name Count Number of sessions accessed file at least once Percent Share of total file downloads Bandwidth Total data transferred while downloading this file Percent Share of total bandwidth Bw Sess Average data transferred per session for the specific file Bounces Number of bounces not visited another page and not downloaded a file Percent Bounce rate in percents Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Goals 335 Parameters 745 Options 354 2003 2015 Dataland Software Reports 57 4 3 4 4 3 5 Images This report shows images accessed by visitors Count is the number of sessions that accessed an image at least once not the total number of hits File Image name Count Number of sessions accessed image at least once Percent Share of total image visits Bandwidth Total data transferred while retrieving this image Percent Share of total bandwidth Bw Sess Average data transferred per session for the specific image Bounces Number of bounces not visited another page and not downloaded a file Percent Bounce rate in percents Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Goals 334 Parameters 745 Options 354 File types This report shows file types extensions accessed by visitors Count is the number of s
29. configuration 35 purchase 84 Q queries 59 queries report 59 query 5 query parts report 59 R raw log files 5 raw user agents report 71 2003 2015 Dataland Software Index 89 referrer 5 referrer groups report 61 referrer pages report 61 referrer parameters 77 regions report 66 register 84 report defaults 35 reports 50 request 5 resolution 16 resolutions 68 SS screen resolutions 68 script 16 search engine phrases report 62 search engine words report 63 search engines configuration 44 Search Engines editor 44 search engines report 62 search phrases and words parameters 77 search report 40 session 5 session details 70 session list 70 session timeout configuration 35 session timeout value 5 sessions report 70 slow processing 17 spiders configuration 44 Spiders editor 45 standard edition 6 start screen 20 status and error configuration 44 status and errors report 69 Status Error descriptions editor 44 strengths 4 support 86 TE terminology 5 time on website 65 time spent 65 tools menu 23 top entry pages report 64 top exit pages report 64 trend parameters 80 trend reports 53 U use parameters 15 user agents report 71 userid 16 users report 68 ae viewmenu 22 visit duration 65 visitor 5 visitor id 16 visitor parameters 78 visitor tracking 66 visitors trend report 53 W where to start 10 wildcards 82 window size 68 O 2
30. cript code on your pages for this to work see more information 18 Screen Resolution Screen resolution detected via script Count Number of sessions with specific resolution Percent Share of total bandwidth Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Page tagging for hybrid analysis 187 Goals 334 Parameters 744 4 6 9 Users Professional 6 edition only This report shows authenticated users that accessed a website User Visitor s user name Count Number of sessions from specific user Percent Share of total sessions Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Goals 335 Parameters 745 2003 2015 Dataland Software Reports 4 7 4 7 1 4 7 2 Status Errors Status Errors This report shows plain status and error codes generated by your web server Status Status code Description Description of status error code Count Number of hits resulted with specific status code See also Status editor Ai Parametere 744 Page not found 404 This report shows attempts to access files that don t exist 404 error code File File name Count Number of sessions attempted to access a non existing file at least once Percent Share of total visits with 404 status code Bandwidth Total data transferred while downloading this file Percent Share of total bandwidth Bw Sess Avera
31. d per session with this Cookie ID Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Page tagging for hybrid analysis 16 Goals 334 Parameters 745 4 6 5 Domains This report shows visitor s IP addresses and or host names Domain Visitor s IP address or host name Count Number of sessions from specific domain Bandwidth Total data transferred from specific domain Percent Share of total bandwidth Bw Sess Average data transferred per session from this domain Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Host Resolving 41 Goals 3 Parameters 74 4 6 6 Operating Systems This report shows top operating systems that website visitors use By clicking a pie slice you can view a list of sessions using specific operating systems See also Operating Systems editor Ai Pie parameters 814 Parameters 744 4 6 7 Browsers This report shows top browsers download manager or other type of client applications that website visitors use By clicking a pie slice you can view a list of sessions using a specific client application See also Browsers editor 444 2003 2015 Dataland Software 68 Web Log Storming Pie parameters 814 Parameters 744 4 6 8 Screen Resolutions Professional 64 edition only This report shows visitor s screen resolutions provided JavaScript is enabled It is required to include short s
32. domain com resolveip php cmd get amp ip 1 2 3 4 or http mydomain com resolveip php cmd set amp ip 1 2 3 4 amp domain John Return values For get command the script should just return domain name and nothing else If not found it should return empty text For set command the script should write ip domain pair into database or whatever means you decide to use and return OK if successful Example Here is a simple example in php lt php first we get cmd and ip from parameters cmd _GET cmd ip _GET ip then we check cmd if cmd get for get command we find ip in database by using custom find_ip function domain find_ip ip and write the result to output echo domain elseif cmd set for set command we find read domain parameter domain _GET ip 2003 2015 Dataland Software User Interface and call a function to write a pair into database if write_ip ip domain echo OK else KE echo Error 43 2003 2015 Dataland Software 44 Web Log Storming 3 11 Advanced Editors Use advanced editors to customize operating system browser search engine status error descriptions and spider identification lists You can also edit these lists manually with any text editor To find files use Tools Folders All User Settings option from the main men
33. enter lower and upper limit Examples 1 minutes 30 minutes 1 hour 3 days Path Limit results to sessions with specified page sequence Syntax is similar to File wildcards except it doesn t support operators and delimited values are handled differently as a sequence Examples index html dir To qualify session must start with index html then directly access any file from dir directory The rest of the hits don t affect results index html dir Note the difference in sequence is moved between other two parts Here session must start with index html and exit from any files from dir directory What happens in between doesn t matter index html Session must exit from index html page What happens before doesn t matter Show only files matching If entered the report will only show matching files File wildcard parameter above filters sessions while this parameter filters the result list It only applicable for file based reports Examples pdf Report list will only PDF files See also Wildcards 824 Goals 335 5 1 3 Referrer parameters Referrer parameters limit resulting statistics by referrers and search engine phrases words There are two parts of this page that can be combined together U Referrer and Referrer Group Q Search Phrase and Search Word 2003 2015 Dataland Software 78 Web Log Storming 5 1 4 Combine them by choosing AND or OR o
34. es Examples pagel html Session must contain hit to page1 html file pdf Session must contain any of pdf files pagel html page2 html dir To qualify session most contain both page1 html and page2 html files and mustn t contain any file from dir directory pagel html page2 html dir Without signs session must contain at least one of two specified files and still mustn t contain any file from dir directory gif spec gif Excludes all sessions that accessed any of gif files except spec gif gif spec gif Includes only sessions that accessed any of gif files except spec gif Same effect can be accomplished with gif spec gif Query Enter query text or wildcards 827 to limit report results to whole or part of the queries Example version 1 0 version 1 1 Query part Similar to previous but only looks through part of queries divided by amp Wildcards 824 supported Example version 1 0 version 1 1 Status Limit results to specified status Wildcards and operators are not supported here Examples 200 404 Method Use this drop down list to select which access methods will be shown in results O 2003 2015 Dataland Software Parameters 77 Examples All GET POST Hit bandwidth Show results depending on bandwidth of single hit Examples gt 100 KB lt 1 KB Total time spent Show results depending on visit duration You can
35. ession Total different files downloaded Total number of different files downloaded at least once in a session Average different files downloaded per session Average number of different files downloaded per session Bounces exactly one at least one page Number of bounces compared to total number of visitors It s not considered as a bounce if visitor hits more than one page or downloads a file 2003 2015 Dataland Software 52 Web Log Storming Visitors Total visitor IP addresses Number of different IP addresses unique visitors Average session per IP address Average number of sessions per IP address returning visitors metric Average visitors at one moment Average number of visitors browsing a website simultaneously Bandwidth Total bandwidth Total data size transferred from your website Average bandwidth per second Average transfer speed Note that Time spent value must exist in your log files it s usually not available with the Apache Combined log file format Average bandwidth per session Average data size transferred per session Average bandwidth per hit Average data size transferred per hit Time spent Total time spent Total time spent on your website by all visitors Average time spent per session Average time spent per session Goals Pro Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Parameters 74 2003 2015 Dataland Software Repor
36. essions that accessed a file of a specific type at least once not the total number of hits File File type extension Count Number of sessions accessed file of this type at least once Percent Share of total file type visits Bandwidth Total data transferred while retrieving this file type Percent Share of total bandwidth 2003 2015 Dataland Software 58 Web Log Storming 4 3 6 Bw Sess Average data transferred per session for the specific file type Bounces Number of bounces not visited another page and not downloaded a file Percent Bounce rate in percents Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Goals 335 Parameters 74 gt Directories This report shows directories accessed by visitors Additionally if you defined custom prefix in the Log File Location 294 window the prefix is included in this report Count is the number of sessions that accessed a directory at least once not the total number of hits File Directory name Count Number of sessions accessed directory at least once Percent Share of total directory visits Bandwidth Total data transferred while retrieving files from this directory Percent Share of total bandwidth Bw Sess Average data transferred per session for files from specific directory Bounces Number of bounces not visited another page and not downloaded a file Percent Bo
37. g FTP Please contact your hosting provider for further instructions Once you locate them you can retrieve them manually with any FTP client or you can configure Web Log Storming to do this automatically Step 1 Create a new Web Log Storming project Q Select File New from the main menu Q Select New project file icon from the toolbar O Use Start New Project from the Home screen 20 You should see the Project Properties 257 window O 2003 2015 Dataland Software 12 Web Log Storming r Project properties General Global Filters Replace file names Log files ftp myserver com logs gz Dates Read all not recommended for large number of log files 9 Read last 10 days Read between Your domains comma or semicolon separated acme com Default index file index html Time zone correction 2 hours 0 minutes Convert URLs to lowercase F Multiple sites in one log file Consider queries as part of filename Automatically resolve IPs save es analyze 1 Geng Heb Step 2 Choose log file locations You can choose one or more log file sets locations Logs will be combined they don t need to originate from the same website and they can be even written in different formats You can distinguish statistics from different websites by entering a prefix that will be added to file requests Wildcards a
38. ge data transferred per session for the specific file Bounces Number of bounces not visited another page and not downloaded a file Percent Bounce rate in percents Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Parameters 744 69 2003 2015 Dataland Software 70 Web Log Storming 4 8 Raw data 4 8 1 Sessions This report shows a raw session list Date and time Session start date and time Host Visitor s host IP address or name if available see Host Resolving 415 Cookie ID Visitor s Cookie ID if available see Hybrid analysis 18 gt Hits Number of total hits in session Pages Number of different pages viewed in this session Bandwidth Data size transferred in this session Country Visitor s country Referrer Referrer page that session was initiated from Goals Shows if user defined Goals 33 are fulfilled in this session See also Host Resolving 4 Goals 334 Parametere 744 4 8 2 Hits This report shows a raw hit list Each hit type is represented by different color see Options 35 You can temporarily hide specific types by using checkboxes at the bottom of the screen Date and time Hit date and time Client host Visitor s host IP address or name if available see Host Resolving 415 File File name Query Query if it exists Status Status code generated by server Bandwidth Data size transferred for this h
39. ile again Note that resuming is not always possible depending on server configuration Enter the path on FTP server where log files are located Enter username and password needed to login on the FTP server Enter the local path where downloaded files will be saved If you leave this field empty log files will be saved in the default folder Application Data Web Log Storming Cache If this option is checked software will automatically delete remote log files that match wildcard above and that are older than specified number of days 2003 2015 Dataland Software User Interface 31 HTTP r Select log file location EEE URL to log file Username myaccount C MyLogs http www myserver com 2822 logs todayslog gz Local path to store downloaded log file Leave empty for default path Ea Password MRK URL to log file Username and Password Local path to store downloaded log files See also Project Properties 25 gt Type the exact URL to the log file wildcards are not supported due to nature of HTTP server Enter the username and password needed to login on the HTTP server If your server doesn t require login leave these two fields empty Enter the local path where downloaded files will be saved If you leave this field empty log files will be saved in the default folder Application Data Web Log Storming Cache 2003 2015 Dataland
40. ion timeout minutes Auto check for updates Report default options Wildcards Hit colors Session timeout minutes Auto check for updates Page file and images wildcards Customizable colors for particular types of hits Session timeout to use when analyzing sessions Log files should be re read before an analysis if you change this option If selected Web Log Storming will automatically check for new versions of software 2003 2015 Dataland Software 36 Web Log Storming User interface Options 5 General H User interface Y Report defaults P Network E Cache Show report info by default Split Reports and Parameters panes At startup show Max lines copied to clipboard Ask for action on project open Automatically load last file on startup Report Font Show report info by default Split Reports and Parameters panes At startup show Reports tab Max lines copied to dipboard Ask for action on project open Automatically load last file on startup Report Font Tahoma Turns on or off short report information at the bottom of the screen Split Reports and Parameters panes especially useful for wide screens Choose tab to be shown at startup Available options Reports tab and Parameters tab Useful only if previous option is turned off Limit the number of lines when copying rep
41. it 2003 2015 Dataland Software Reports 71 Method Method used to access file GET POST HEAD Referrer Referrer page that hit was initiated from See also Host Resolving 4 Goals 334 Parameters 74 Options 354 4 8 3 Raw User Agents This report shows raw user agent texts sent by visitor s client application It is also used for Operating Systems and Browsers 444 and Spiders 457 identification User Agent Raw user agent text Count Number of sessions used specific user agent Percent Share of total sessions Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Advanced Editors 444 Operating Systems report 674 Browsers report 674 Goals 335 Parameters 745 2003 2015 Dataland Software 72 Web Log Storming 4 9 Bookmarks Professional 6 edition only While using browsing 154 features and tweaking parameters 15 you will occasionally find a report that you ll want to be able to view again Use options from the Bookmark menu 224 or press Ctrl D to add the current report to the list of favorites r Bookmark Name E Global for all projects L J cae When adding or editing a bookmark you can change its name or mark it as Global Global bookmarks are visible in all projects while non global can be selected only if you are currently analyzing the associated project file Non global book
42. k it to root of your server so file paths are wls_log wis_log js and wls_log wls_log gif Step 2 Include this one line in your pages that you want to track template header file all static html files whatever matches your system lt script src wls_log wls_log js gt lt script gt lt script gt wlsInit lt script gt Wait a bit to collect some data and that s it No additional configuration of Web Log Storming is needed if it finds additional information it will use it Otherwise it will simply work like before Note that putting this line into HEAD tag is preferable but not mandatory See also Cookies IDs report Screen Resolutions report Time Spent report O 2003 2015 Dataland Software Getting started 17 2 4 Improving performance The size of your web site your log files the speed of your Internet connection the computer s speed and memory all affect how fast Web Log Storming can analyze your files Every site has files that don t affect stat results logos buttons stylesheets etc Almost as a rule these files receive the most hits and thus require the most processing time Global filters can be used to filter out the hits that you are not interested in Using global filters allows Web Log Storming to be more efficient All web log analyzers support the well known concept of global filters While this is the only type of filter other analyzers recognize for Web Log Storming it s just
43. le if visitor points his browser to http www myserver com depending on configuration the server will actually send a http www myserver com index html page In this case enter index html here and all request will be replaced with index html in the reports 2003 2015 Dataland Software 14 Web Log Storming Examples index html index htm index php default asp Time zone correction If your web server doesn t log time for your time zone you can enter the time difference here Other options and Global filters Please view the Project Properties 25 page for descriptions and other options Step 4 Analyze When you are finished with these settings click the Analyze or Save buttons See also Project Properties 254 Log File Locations 294 Terminology 54 O 2003 2015 Dataland Software Getting started 15 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 Analyze statistics Once your log files are processed use the Reports 504 tree on the left to select which predefined reports to view These predefined reports are commonly used by most log analyzers However one of main advantages of Web Log Storming is its unique capability to arbitrary change reports by clicking on items to browse and being able to drill down into details that other web statistic packages don t provide See also Reports 504 Browse through statistics In Web Log Storming reports are click sensitive This means you can
44. log file location website2 for second log file location All files from the first website will be represented as website1 and from the second as website2 Local Le Select log file location Select location type Select local log files to indude in analysis C MyLogs zip y You can select multiple files or enter wildcards e g D MyLogFiles og Select folder where you keep your log files Examples C Log Files log C Log Files 2004 zip 2003 2015 Dataland Software 30 Web Log Storming FTP r Select log file location OEA FTP server address ftp ftp myserver com FTP path to log files Aogs gz Username myaccount C MyLogs Local path to store downloaded log files Leave empty for default path F Delete files from the FTP server older than 30 Passive 21 Resume if possible Wildcards are allowed e g Mogs gz ba Add prefix FTP server address and Port Passive Resume if possible FTP path to log files Username and Password Local path to store downloaded log files Delete files from the FTP server older than 1 ox JI Ce Enter the FTP server address and port Turn on if you need to connect to the FTP server in passive mode If this option is turned on Web Log Storming will try to resume downloading a log file instead of downloading the whole f
45. marks are written to the wls file so make sure you save the wls file to avoid losing changes See also Bookmarks menu 224 2003 2015 Dataland Software Parameters Part 74 Web Log Storming Parameters Parameters are unique feature and main advantage of Web Log Storming compared to other web log analyzers They are basically on the fly filters used to easily segment results allowing you to quickly analyze various aspects of web statistics Technology used here is essential for the browsing capabilities 15 of Web Log Storming Parameters are grouped by several pages Each individual page values can be locked by clicking on the 4 button so they don t change when you switch to another report To keep all parameter values intact press and hold the Shift key or use the Keep parameters and select report tree context menu option Some of pages are available for all reports Datel 737 File 754 Referrer 774 Visitor 787 Oooo Other parameter pages are applicable for specific report types only O Trend at for trend reports a Path 804 for path based reports O Pie parameters 8 for pie reports 2003 2015 Dataland Software Parameters 75 5 1 General 5 1 1 Date parameters Date parameters limit resulting statistics by date and or time All Base statistics on all available dates Range Base statistics on range of dates Relative Base statistics on relati
46. nd archive types are also allowed Three types of log file locations are supported Local FTP and HTTP If you select either FTP or HTTP types only changed files will be automatically downloaded before the analysis Examples C Log Files log C Log Files 2004 zip ftp myserver com logs gz See also Log File Location editor 29 O 2003 2015 Dataland Software Getting started 13 r Select local log files to indude in analysis C MyLogs zip You can select multiple files or enter wildcards e g D MyLogFiles og Select log file location Step 3 Set other options Dates Limit dates that you want to examine Web Log Storming remembers which dates are contained in specific log files so it doesn t need to re read all of the log files every analysis Read all All selected log files are read and analyzed Depending on size of log files this could be time consuming and it s not recommended Read last Reads last X days only This option is recommended for regular analysis Read between Define exact start and end date to read and analyze Use it when you want to analyze a specific time period Your domains Domains added here separated by comma or semicolon will be excluded from referrer reports Examples mydomain net acme com otheracme com Default index file All web servers send a default page when a visitor accesses a directory without a filename For examp
47. not all spiders behave properly and that they sometimes introduce themselves as legitimate web browsers In that case you should define IP address wildcards by using Tools Spider Domains O 2003 2015 Dataland Software 46 Web Log Storming If found Part of User Agent text that identifies spiders In addition to this method Web Log Storming also considers all visitors that access the robots txt file as a spider 2003 2015 Dataland Software User Interface 47 3 12 Parsing problems Sometimes Web Log Storming can t read some log file lines You can see error details in this window by choosing Tools Parsing problems r Parsing problems u aa Web Log Storming failed to parse some of log lines It s possible that some of them are not important and that these errors can be ignored server logging error strange requests from robots etc or that this is not server log file at all Please investigate and if needed send this list to us for further analysis Error message Log line Error in Apache Combined Request 81 29 202 118 13 May 2009 22 21 33 04 Send for analysis by e mail When Web Log Storming detects an obvious format problem i e when number of errors exceeds 5 of total lines reading will be automatically canceled to avoid wasting time dealing with an unreadable file Reasons for errors could be different
48. o avoid this or if you simply want to see differently presented graph group results by custom time range Available options Default Day Day of week Week Month Month of year Hour PODODDODO If you choose Default the report will be grouped according to default configured in the Options 374 window Moving average count Enter number of values to use when calculating moving average See also Options 37 Path parameters Configure how path based reports will be grouped All All path items are presented separately and will contain an unlimited number of pages files Group first Group last Group path items by first or last X pages files Example Group first 1 Shows list of entry pages files same as Top Entry pages ei report Group last 2 Shows list of paths grouped by pairs of two last exit pages files 2003 2015 Dataland Software Parameters 81 5 2 3 Pie parameters Configure pie type reports appearance Include unknown If checked Unknown items will be included in the report for example unknown countries or cities Percent limit If this value is not zero Web Log Storming will cut off less popular items that sum to the maximum of specified value and group them in the Other slice O 2003 2015 Dataland Software 82 Web Log Storming 5 3 Wildcards Most of the text based parameters support wildcards with multiple parts and operators Parts can
49. o o 65 SR ET A d GE 66 NO 66 Regions 66 Cities 66 Go kie lDS A ged 66 DOMAINS A bi ao anni 67 Operating SMS sse ear a aea a ea Aa e aae Aa arare eaaa eaaet Oraa AE AEA ANE EAA adnan diaaa AN aada aaia 67 Browsers nesse un 67 Screen Resolutions iii Added 68 Users 7 Status Errors Status Errors ci aia 69 Paje not found 404 iocicesicncccveatsetiedceniasiacvedanteedsudeddeutevcesiesiercenusasespuatesiastievsaisucsesdetediesvetdestebcetdvsdsidesinrsnsuduberseaus 69 SB Raw Ro EN CEET 70 SESSIONS A A EEE E E A E A E E T 70 Hits O o eeavesecicesessgedsepsavsoesteavcaseetcnstensionvesuswessestsuansdevastetecsvebyeeiespsedesVectiekceideavessethssiessendeusensusersdeseeseeissverpertesns 70 Raw User aea E A ia 71 9 Bookmarks enee RER KEREN ER ER ENER nana ENEE na nena nnmnnn 72 Part V Parameters 74 TIVE CTT 75 Date parameters sesipatan lion e nai pacdai 75 File parameters EEN 75 Referrer E NN 77 Visitor parameters aw 78 2 Report specific e mecooomncncnncnacnnanannan cnn 80 Trend parameters aeniea endoa naana ae aaa a a eaaa Naa a raana aaaeei a aa aa enaA A AEE an Ane naa A adane n ni eiaa AANE kna nananana 80 Path parameters T E EA 80 PIG ParaMeCters sicciesicscteccetievseevecavesecdenncsesdevevaseavianseuacedsdrsusuabacrsecuserncvncsecsaccieuceusdabereteseddvsrecedspesebersdisandesinaendsdocrceeue 81 3 Wildcards 2003 2015 Dataland Software Contents II Part VI Other information 84 1 CTT EC EE 84 wl ei CH
50. ormat You can distinguish statistics from different websites by entering a prefix that will be added to file requests Wildcards and archive types are also allowed Three types of log file locations are supported Local FTP and HTTP In case you select FTP or HTTP type only changed files will be automatically downloaded before the analysis Examples C Log Files log C Log Files 2004 zip ftp myserver com logs gz Use Log File Location editor 2 to define sets 2003 2015 Dataland Software 26 Web Log Storming Dates Limit dates that you want to examine Web Log Storming remembers which dates are contained in specific log files so it doesn t need to re read all of the log files every analysis Read all All selected log files are read and analyzed Depending on size of log files this could be time consuming and it s not recommended Read last Reads last X days only This option is recommended for regular analysis Read between Define exact start and end date to read and analyze Use it when you want to analyze a specific time period Your domains Domains added here separated by comma or semicolon will be excluded from referrer reports Examples mydomain net acme com otheracme com Default index file All web servers send a default page when a visitor accesses a directory without a filename For example if visitor points his browser to http www myserver com depending on configu
51. ort content to the clipboard Same limitation apply to Print and Export options Perl eh Professionall 64 edition only If this option is checked you will be able to choose what you want to do before analysis i e edit project or skip download If you turn this option on every time you start Web Log Storming it will automatically load last analyzed file Choose font name and font size for report lists and report tree 2003 2015 Dataland Software User Interface 37 Report defaults amp Report defaults P Network E Cache Trend reports Default value to show Default Group by Country Region City reports Operating Systems User Agents reports Trend reports Default value to show Daily averages Default Group by Smart Moving average count Country Region City reports Indude unknown Percent limit Operating Systems User Agents report Indude unknown Percent limit Default options for Trend parameters 804 Value that will be shown if report is not grouped by day Available options Daily averages and Totals Controls how trend reports will be grouped Available options Smart automatically determine for best visibility and Day force grouping by day regardless of number of bars Sets defaults for country region and city Pie parameters 814 Sets defaults for operating system and user agents Pie parameters 814 O 2003 2
52. p option 1 amp type some A query is used to send data to web scripts Session One session contains hits from a single visitor in a predefined timeframe It s impossible to tell exactly which hits belong to each session but our goal is to achieve the best guess To determine which hits belong to each session Web Log Storming uses the visitor s IP address and a session timeout value Es Visitor Visitor is a guess of one physical person or robot who visited the web site at least once one or more sessions As with sessions it s impossible to tell exactly what one visitor is Some of reasons for this possible inaccuracy are One visitor can use more than one IP address For example he can use more computers i e home and work or Internet connection with dynamically assigned IP address More people can use same computer or connects through same network local networks with shared Internet access Some visitors use proxy servers and they will all have the same IP address Some visitors are not actually people i e search engine spiders or other robots It s clear that log files do not provide sufficient information to achieve 100 of accuracy However Web Log Storming allows you to browse statistics into details and you will be able to manually identify spiders and robots and add them to Spiders list 445 Bandwidth The amount of data transferred from the server to client visitor s computer Bps bandwidth pe
53. ption Two values of the same part are related referrer group text is already contained in referrer page URL and search word is contained in search phrase text Therefore there is no sense to enter both values from the same part changing clears the other one Examples Referrer Group google AND Search Phrase my search phrase Sessions referred by Google with my search phrase search Referrer Group google OR Search Phrase my search phrase Sessions referred by Google with any phrase or searching for my search phrase with any search engine As in other text based parameters wildcards 8 are supported See also Wildcards 824 Search Engines editor 444 Visitor parameters Visitor parameters limit resulting statistics by visitor and session based information Visitor s IP address Enter IP address or a wildcard 8 Example 111 222 Includes session from specified IP range only Visitor s host name Filter by visitor s host name or a wildcard 827 Example provider net other org Includes session from either one of specified host names Cookie ID Filter by visitor s Cookie ID if it s available Example 150303 Includes sessions with first visit on 2015 03 03 Country Select country from the list to limit resulting statistics Region 2003 2015 Dataland Software Parameters 79 Select region from the list to limit resulting statistics City Select city from the list
54. r currently O 2003 2015 Dataland Software User Interface 27 loaded domains Global Filters When a large number of log files needs to be read and analyzed you would be strongly advised to use global filters to save system resources Using global filters will slightly slow down reading because of additional comparisons but speed will be remarkably improved later during multiple analyses as the result of reduced memory consumption All fields support wildcards see separate topic 824 for details and you can use the include and exclude editor by clicking on the pencil button Note that due to technical limitations these filters apply to hits not sessions In other words if you define Referrer global filter reports will include only the first direct hit originating from it If you want to see complete sessions use parameters 74 instead r Project properties General Global Filters Replace file names Although you can narrow your data with live filters parameters later it is advisable to use these as well By filtering out unnecessary hits your log files will load faster and application will be more responsive Click here to add usual file types vr Remove zero bandwidth hits File wildcards File wildcards to include or exclude from results Use Click here to add usual file types option for a quick start Host IP Host name or I
55. r second In our case it s a number of kilobytes that was transferred in one second This information is not always available to calculate it Web Log Storming needs a Time taken value which is for example not a standard part of Apache combined log files On the other hand the default IIS log file configuration does contain this value Referrer It s a web site or web page that sends visitors to your site For example if visitor finds your site through the Google search engine the referrer will be a Google Path It s a sequence of pages and files identification wildcards are configurable in Options window 384 your visitor accessed in one session 2003 2015 Dataland Software 6 Web Log Storming 1 5 Compare editions Please use this table to compare features for Standard and Professional editions of Web Log Storming E CECR EECH Parameters on the fly dynamic filters el e un folo en mo en mm 6 0 e CIN recognition texts Se 0 EECH ECH EECH Authenticated Users report GE Number of Entry Exit pages to group in Path reports IP to host name resolving reverse DNS lookup Unlimited 2003 2015 Dataland Software Introduction 7 Custom IP resolving for shared access from any web server le Copy reports to clipboard and transfer them to another application such is Excel spreadsheet 2003 2015 Dataland Software Getting started
56. ration the server will actually send a http www myserver com index html page In this case enter index html here and all request will be replaced with index html in the reports Examples index html index htm index php default asp Time zone correction If your web server doesn t log time for your time zone you can enter the time difference here Convert URLs to lowercase Apache servers are case sensitive IIS is not If you are using the Apache server page html Page html and PAGE HTML are all different pages IIS treats those URLs as the same page Check this box to convert all URLs to lowercase Multiple sites in one log file Sometimes web servers log requests from several different websites are placed in the same file When you are only interested in one or few of them check this option Web Log Storming uses Your domains setting see above to filter out logs that should be ignored Consider queries as part of file name Sometimes websites use queries to determine which content to send while there is just one physical file that s requested This is very common with some Content Management Systems For example index php page_id 1 and index php page_id 2 could be completely different pages If this is the case with your website check this option and those two URLs will be treated as two different pages Automatically resolve IPs If this options is checked IP to host name resolving will be automatically executed fo
57. ription form or to download a file etc We also believe it s very important to measure these goals and Web Log Storming offers an easy way to do it Similar to using File parameters 75 you define a list of goals that you are trying to accomplish After your goals are defined almost all reports will contain new fields to show your goal conversion totals and percentages Pi Goals Goals Purchase V Global goal 7 Same hit match File wildcards purchase Query Method All Hit bandwidth gt w OKB Total time spent All Path When adding or editing goals you can change their name reorder them or mark them as Global Global goals are visible in all projects while non global can be selected only if you are currently analyzing the associated project file wls Non global goals are written to the wls file so make sure you save the file to avoid losing changes For details how to fill the goal form see File parameters 757 topic See also File parameters 755 2003 2015 Dataland Software 34 Web Log Storming 2003 2015 Dataland Software User Interface 35 3 7 Options Program options are set here General Options xm Wildcards Pages html htm asp aspx php ze Files exe ap cgi dll pdf rar Images jpeg jpg gif png Hit colors Pages E ne E mses D Sess
58. rst 10 If found Search Query begins with Result page nr begins with Page number divided with Part of referrer text that identifies a search engine It s also used in reports as a human readable name Value name from referrer query that represents search text For example Google and MSN use q q search text and Yahoo uses p p search text Optional Value name from referrer query that represents result page number For Google it s start amp start 20 Optional Depending on the search engine the page number value can represent the index of first visible result instead of the real page number For example if Google sends start 20 in referrer text it s actually 3rd and not 20th page To correct this enter 10 into this column In other words here you should enter default number of results on one page used by the search engine Note that Google decided not to share search keyword information anymore so there is no way for you to learn which Google search terms visitors use to find your website by using Web Log Storming or any other web analytics solution We have hoped that this policy will be changed but apparently it won t happen You can still see keywords from Yahoo Bing and other search engines Spider User Agents and Domains In these windows you can enter parts of User Agents that identify them as a spider bot crawler and their IP addresses or domains Note that
59. rue except if condition2 is true See also Parameters 744 2003 2015 Dataland Software Other information Part 84 Web Log Storming 6 1 Other information Purchase We offer a free trial for Web Log Storming so you can investigate its benefits in detail before your final decision For any further assistance please contact us 86 Fully functional and unlimited version 30 day money back guarantee Free updates for two years regardless of version a discount afterwards Maximum priority technical support Order via secure servers Various payment options including credit card PayPal wire transfer purchase orders etc Instant key delivering in rare cases within 24 hours at most UUUUUUU Buy now http www weblogstorming com purchase html 2003 2015 Dataland Software Other information 85 6 2 Credits We would like to use this page to thank to developers who made their products and libraries available CodeGear Delphi Main development environment http www codegear com IP Location Tools GeolIP database http www iplocationtools com TMS Component Pack Various components http www tmssoftware com SpTBXLib Menus toolbars and custom themes skins http www silverpointdevelopment com sptbxlib TurboPower Abbrevia Compression libraries http tpabbrevia sourceforge net JEDI components Various components http www delphi jedi org
60. sanesaesseessessaesseeaaeesauseesaesseessesuaesseusaeesaesnaessesaaensaesaneeaenaaes 22 View menu BeSSRFRRRIERPERREERPERREEUREERREERFEUREELFERREERREEREEURFERREEREEREELFEEREEREEUREEEFEEREERFEERFEUREEREERFERREERFEEREELFEEEEEREERREEEFEEEFERREEREEREERRRER 22 Tools UI 23 Project Properties econ 25 Log File Location ronsannansannannansannannunannannunnnnnnnnannannnnnannannannannannannannannannannannannannannansannannannannnn 29 Open project tasks lt mmcommna ene 32 Edit Go ls 2 2 A died 33 Options NN 35 Ein ek a Fa o e e a e ne EE 40 Host Resolving A OO 41 Custom IP resolving ET 42 Advanced Editors 3 A een ee N Eileen 44 Parsing problems coomsnccnnncanncccnrccn rr c rn crcnn 47 Reports 50 OvarvieW sa a aaa EA ee rr re reer rere try errr errr rrr err rer 51 Traffic EE 53 Visitors trend TTT 53 Hits CL NEE 53 Bandwidth trend TEE 53 Bp trem DEE 53 2003 2015 Dataland Software Web Log Storming 3 Top files and queries economica cnc 55 All files 55 Pages 55 Files 56 Images 57 File types 57 Directories 58 Queries 59 Query Parts 59 A Referrers A A A i es il et 61 Referrer Pages A O EeEegEE EES Ee iaai 61 Referrer Groups u 61 Search UNE 62 Search D UNENEE 62 Search Engine Word kraana ea RARAS no iii 63 5 Visitor behavior nennen enee ee REENEN ENEE ENEE RE ER EE RE EE ER ER ER EEE EE ER ER ENEE nr anar ENEE Ee 64 d E pages sra 64 STOP E colinas 64 Pas A iio 64 MN A o
61. search word Percent Share of total referrals Bw Sess Average data transferred per session that was initiated by a specific word Percent Bounce rate in percents Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 33 See also Search Engines editor 444 Goals 334 Parameters 745 63 2003 2015 Dataland Software 64 Web Log Storming 4 5 4 5 1 4 5 2 4 5 3 Visitor behavior Top Entry pages This report shows list of entry pages or files By adjusting Path parameters 80 you can control the way paths will be grouped By default this report is grouped by first page file only and you can change this value to the first two pages or more Path Sequence of pages files Count Number of sessions used specific sequence Percent Share of total visits Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Path parameters 804 Goals 334 Parameters 744 Top Exit pages This report shows list of exit pages or files By adjusting Path parameters 804 you can control the way paths will be grouped By default this report is grouped by last page file only and you can change this value to the last two pages or more Path Sequence of pages files Count Number of sessions used specific sequence Percent Share of total visits Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See
62. sl 189 156 10 160 dyn 10 05 2009 189 156 12 152 del 189 156 12 152 dvn 10 05 2009 Use the top part of the window to resolve choose which IP addresses will be resolved and the bottom part and its right click menu to select and resolve individual addresses Unresolved Resolve only unresolved IPs including Unknown Resolved Resolve resolved IPs again All Resolve all resolved and unresolved IPs Last resolve try Limit resolving according to last resolve attempt Available options Never Older than X days and Newer than X days When you set appropriate options click Start to start resolving See also Custom IP resolving 424 2003 2015 Dataland Software 42 Web Log Storming 3 10 Custom IP resolving Professional 6 edition only In Options 357 window on Network page you can define custom URL that will be checked prior to regular IP to domain name resolving It can be used by team members who want to share manually edited host names with each other The script on your web server should comply to precise but simple rules To the URL you define in Options 354 window Web Log Storming will add parameters that your script should respond to cmd Command that should be execute Possible values get or set ip IP address domain Domain name only if command is set In other words if you define this as URL http mydomain com resolveip php It will be used as http my
63. sn t know what filters will be applied to inspect different cross reports Furthermore nothing is insignificant for the Web Log Storming unless the user explicitly says so If user decides to get Countries report for visitors that saw a least popular page he can get it with just few clicks without the need of re reading log files with different filter settings To accomplish this kind of full interactivity we needed to keep all relevant log data in the memory Although our team spent a substantial amount of time developing a highly optimized memory model some users might experience a major slowdown when analyzing log files Our main goal was to find a meaningful compromise between processing searching and sorting speed on one side and memory consumption on other side In our opinion results are more than satisfactory especially if the user keeps in mind these facts and makes a few tweaks to achieve the best results How exactly you define global filter depends on your web site structure One example can look like this css gif script forum Sign in front of wildcards means exclude and wildcards can be delimited with or Of course if you eventually wish to inspect some of excluded files later you always can make another project file with a global filter that will include all or only files that you wish to analyze 2003 2015 Dataland Software User Interface Part 20 Web Log Storming
64. t accept developer s assumptions about what you are interested to see create your own reports Track individual visitors see any visitor s detail available in log files including previous visits hit details accessed pages etc Change filters ad hoc adjust filters parameters on the fly and immediately see specific reports you need Goal conversions define goals that you want to track and check how they relate to any segment Bookmarks save custom reports so you can easily run them again later Every detail counts analyze every bit of information grouping less popular items under the Other label optional Optimized memory model most other log analyzers use slow database systems to process data which limits possibilities O 2003 2015 Dataland Software Introduction 5 1 4 Terminology Understanding the words and phrases we use with the Web Log Storming software and documentation will make the software easier to use and you will be more productive Raw log files Files created by web servers that contain information about every hit requested by visitors Each time a visitor s browser requests a file whether it s a page image stylesheet or script file the web server adds a line to the raw log file Hit A hit is a single retrieval request for any file on the web server one line from the raw log file Request Same as Hit Query It s part of URL after mark i e page ph
65. ts 53 4 2 Traffic 4 2 1 Visitors trend This report shows the number of sessions between the start and end dates Click on any bar to see list of sessions from a particular day or range depending on grouping options 80 Bars represent average or total number of sessions in date time range Red line represents a cumulative average an average of all previous values For example the first value is same as the first bar value second is an average of first and second bar value and so forth Blue line is a moving average an average of last 10 configurable 804 bar values See also Trend parameters 80 Parameters 744 4 2 2 Hitstrend This report shows the number of hits between the start and end dates Click on any bar to see list of hits from a particular day or range depending on grouping options 80 gt Bars represent average or total number of hits in date time range Red line represents a cumulative average an average of all previous values For example the first value is same as the first bar value second is an average of first and second bar value and so forth Blue line is a moving average an average of last 10 configurable 804 bar values See also Trend parameters 80 Parameters 745 4 2 3 Bandwidth trend This report shows transferred data between the start and end dates Click on any bar to see list of sessions from a particular day or range depending on grouping options 80
66. u Editors for all three lists are similar Operating Systems Browsers and Status Errors e Operating Systems Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows NT 4 0 Windows NT 5 0 Windows NT 5 1 Windows NT 5 1 SV1 Windows ME Windows XP Windows NT 5 2 Windows NT 6 0 WOW64 Windows NT 6 0 Windows NT 6 1 WOW64 Windows NT 6 1 Windows NT 6 2 WOW64 If found Consider it as Search Engines Consider it as Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows NT 4 0 Windows Me Windows XP Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows NT 4 0 Windows 2000 Windows XP or SP3 Windows XP SP2 Windows Me Windows XP Windows 2003 Server Windows Vista 64 bit Windows Vista Windows 7 64 bit Windows 7 Windows 8 64 bit L a Jee IL Hep Part of User Agent text that identifies item Human readable description This editor is used to define how Web Log Storming recognizes search engines and search texts Compared to the editors previously described this editor is slightly different it contains four columns 2003 2015 Dataland Software User Interface 45 Search Engines ES If found Search Query begins with Result page nr begins with Page number divided with search yahoo p n 10 google yahoo p b 20 google q start 10 altavista q stq 10 search msn q web ask com q page 1 search netscape query start 10 aolsearch aol query page 1 alltheweb q o 10 excite gkw top 1 lycos query first 11 zdnet search com q start 10 bing q fi
67. unce rate in percents Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Goals 335 Parameters 745 2003 2015 Dataland Software Reports 59 4 3 7 Queries This report shows queries text after mark in URL used when accessing pages files Count is the number of sessions that used a query at least once not the total number of hits Query Query text Count Number of sessions used a query at least once Percent Share of total query uses Bandwidth Total data transferred while using this query Percent Share of total bandwidth Bw Sess Average data transferred per session for the specific query Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined Goals 334 See also Goals 335 Parameters 745 4 3 8 Query Parts Similar to Queries 5 this report shows query parts text after mark in URL divided by amp and counted separately used when accessing pages files Count is the number of sessions that used a query at least once not the total number of hits Query Part Query part text Count Number of sessions used a query part at least once Percent Share of total query part uses Bandwidth Total data transferred while using this query part Percent Share of total bandwidth Bw Sess Average data transferred per session for the specific query part Goals and Conversions totals and percentages for user defined
68. ve date range Available options Today Yesterday Last 7 days Last 30 days This week Last week This month Last month This year Last year OOOOCOOOOCOD From hour To hour Limit results to a specific time of the day range Day of the week Limit results to a specific day of the week Month of the year Limit results to a specific month of the year 5 1 2 File parameters File parameters limit resulting statistics by files queries status bandwidth and path This parameter page is also used by the Goals 29 editor This pane is also used to Edit Goals 334 and it includes few shortcuts at the bottom Same hit match If this checkbox is checked Wildcards Query Status and Bandwidth filters must all match a single hit If you leave this option unchecked filters will be matched to any hit in the session Example Wildcard pagel html Query GoogleAdword Session1 pagel html page2 html GoogleAdword 2003 2015 Dataland Software 76 Web Log Storming Session2 pagel html GoogleAdword page2 html If Same hit match is checked only Session2 will be included in stats because both constraints are fulfilled in the first hit If not checked both sessions will be included in stats because both constraints are fulfilled in different hits File wildcards Enter file names or file wildcards 82 to limit statistics You can separate them by comma or semicolon and use operators see exampl
69. ware Web Log Storming Find By choosing View Find or pressing Ctrl F the search panel will appear at the bottom of the report While you type any item that contains the specified text will be automatically marked incremental search Use Next button or press F3 to jump to a next match x Find google Next F3 2003 2015 Dataland Software User Interface 41 3 9 Host Resolving Professional 6 edition only In case your server doesn t resolve IP addresses to host names automatically you can use this tool Note that Web Log Storming must have access to the Internet while resolving Resolved IP addresses Last resolve try 9 Never Older than 15 days Newer than 1 days Host Last resolve try 189 155 23 158 dsl 189 155 23 158 dyn 10 05 2009 189 155 41 241 dsl 189 155 41 241 dyn 10 05 2009 189 155 60 46 dsl 189 155 60 46 dyn pr 10 05 2009 189 155 104 116 dsl 189 155 104 116 dyn 10 05 2009 189 155 111 149 dsl 189 155 111 149 dyn 10 05 2009 189 155 112 197 dsl 189 155 112 197 dyn 10 05 2009 189 155 142 15 dsl 189 155 142 15 dyn 10 05 2009 189 155 149 9 dsl 189 155 149 9 dyn pr 10 05 2009 189 155 155 214 dsl 189 155 155 214 dyn 10 05 2009 189 155 210 14 dsl 189 155 210 14 dyn 10 05 2009 189 155 224 151 dsl 189 155 224 151 dyn 10 05 2009 189 155 252 134 dsl 189 155 252 134 dyn 10 05 2009 189 156 10 160 d
70. y type Date 754 File 75 Referrer 774 Visitor 78and report specific parameters 744 and you can see detailed description on separate pages When you click report items the parameters are automatically set However if you want fine tune the parameters for example use wildcards or segment data by more than one constraint they can be set manually on the Parameters panel See also Reports 504 Parameters 74 2003 2015 Dataland Software 16 Web Log Storming 2 3 Page tagging for hybrid analysis Professional 6 edition only To eliminate limitations of log file compared to script based web analytics such are better visitor spider identification and more information you can consider using page tagging with Web Log Storming It works similarly to various widely known web analytics with one of important differences that data stays on your server This way Web Log Storming combines best features of two web analytics worlds Page tagging is required if you wish to see Cookie IDs or Screen Resolutions reports or if you wish better detection of previous visits spiders and time spent on page How to use it Page tagging feature uses a small JavaScript that hosted on your server no third party involvement and additional information will be written directly to regular log files no databases or additional files which you already analyze in Web Log Storming Step 1 Download wls_log zip arhive and unpac

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