Log File Size

How much is the size of your log files

[sdani]

I am working on a proposal for an online web analysis service. Would anyone be willing to help me by sharing the size of the log files per day and number of visitors per day.

I am seeing 150 MB log file for 30K visitors.

Thanks
sdani

[Reid]

21k for 100 visitors (hope this helps)

[helleborine]

6500 KB/day for a forum.

[netguy]

Just checked a site over the past 14 days:
37MB avr/day - 5,200 Uniques/7,300 impressions per day.

[Woz]

Logfile size depends on a number of factors.

One factor is how much the server is actually recording in the logfiles. Some host set up full reporting, some partial, some minimal. The more complete the recordsin the larger the logfile.

It is also dependant on the type of site being recorded. If the site is graphic heavy, bu which I mean using a lot of graphics in the design, regardless of size, rather than using large graphics, then there will be many server calls per page to pick up all the graphics, all of which will be recorded in the logfiles. On the other hand, if the site is text/css heavy then the number of calls will be less and so will result in recuced logfiles.

Onya
Woz

[sdani]

Thanks guys to everyone who has responded so far. This info is really helpful.

sdani

[larryhatch]

I typically see 800K to 1.1Mbyte and I download access_log files daily.
This works out to about 2000 - 2800 page views, and 700 - 1100 visitors.
Figures come from Weblog Expert Lite (sugar free) statistics. -Larry

[McElvoy]

150-900 MB per day, includes image files, shrinks to 14% of that if only pages are logged. Anywhere from 20K to 100K visitors.

[sandyeggo]

log is between 2-3 GB per day
I have to rotate log files often :-)

6000+ uniques and 40,000+ page views / day
its a shopping site - lots of images

[Matt Probert]

Our Apache server, with "out-of-the-box" standard logging, is generating an average of 115mB of access log file per day, while dealing with a daily average of about 55,000 page requests, and a daily average of 413,000 file requests.

Taking Alexa's data of average page views per visitor, and applying this to the number of page requests, we get an (very) approximation of unique daily visitiors of about 39,000.

Matt

[Reid]

WOT wrote:

Logfile size depends on a number of factors.

I agree with this.

even # of visitors depends on what logfile reader you are using, this figute could vary considerably.

Even what type of logfile and what is being recorded etc etc.
Maybe more accurate would be
logfile size/mb served

or logfile size/#of hits(requests)

even that is misleading depending on server/which logs are enabled/logfile extension (type)

[sdani]

Most of the pricing that I have seen so far is page views based....
Here is an example pricing schedule from a vendor:

0 to 50,000 $49.00
50,000 to 100,000 $69.00
100,000 to 200,000 $99.00

.. and so on.

So, I am trying to detrmine an optimal number for these page views in terms of bandwidth usgae and disk space to host these logs. I think these prices are insance and if I can crack the puzzle of right bandwidth and disk space, I can propose my client to price the solution at very affordable rates.

Thanks for all those who have responded so far.

sdani