Analog: pages/user?

Anyway to find how many pages in average a user look every day?

[freitasm]

Curious to know two things:

- how many times a user comes back to my site
- how many pages a day in average are visited by user

Can I have this with Analog, which I'm currently using?

Thanks!

[PeterD]

For how many times a user is visiting your site, there's not really a good way to tell. Analog doesn't attempt to track "sessions," so there's no way to tell how many times a particular visitor has come to your site.

If you want to know how many pages the average visitor looks at in a day, you could approximate it by setting the time ranges to look at only one day, then divide "Successful requests for pages" by "Distinct hosts served." This assumes a 1:1 relation between host IPs and users, which isn't exactly right, but probably close enough to give you an idea.

The reason you can't really do these things is Analog's ultra-agnostic philosophy: it doesn't attempt to make make any guesses (for example, about sessions or users). It just reports what the server is actually doing. Personally, I prefer this.

If you really want to track users reliably, you probably would have to go to cookies.

Hope this helps,

Pete

[freitasm]

Thanks. I think the same, but I need some information like how many pages a user sees in each visit to the site.

I understand is hard from logs to check this, since there's no session info. But it could be an average, as you suggest.

Will have a look in other packages too.

Thanks!