Problem with Faststats Trial

[palmpal]

I just downloaded a trial version of Faststats. I don't understand what the program just reported on. I ran a report and expected to be given an input area to enter the URL of my website and in 2 seconds it had given me a record on number of users, etc. What exactly is it reporting on?

I guess I don't understand this talk of "logs." I'm creating a website and wanted a good counter/statistics package. Unfortunately my host only offers webalizer and a trimmed down version of Urchin. I would like a good tool to use and would be willing to pay for it but since I'm just starting out I don't need anything really sophisticated.

Can anyone comment on Faststats? Does anyone have any other recommendations? I also tried phlogger but read some problems of bugginess so I uninstalled it.

Thanks to all. I'd never have gotten as far along with my website without the support here.

Mona

[Reflect]

Hi,

It is the trial report from the sounds of it.

You need to go in and setup a new report. I do not have it in front of me but once in a new report you can set filters on different aspects. Takes me around one hour to setup a new sites report. Takes me a few days to get a new sites report "tweaked" the way i want it. I do the basic setup and then add to the filters as I review the results.

Brian

[martinibuster]

I used to use this at a client's office. I believe what you do is either this, or similar to this:

First, download your raw logs into a folder on your desktop. Unzip the raw logs.

Now, Open up FastStats
click "Add a report"
Click log files are stored locally
Skip the Apache files screen
Logs are stored in one file (browse to them)
Skip tracking
Skip filters
Fill in the blanks and make appropriate choices

Should be pretty straightforward afterward.

[palmpal]

OK thanks,

I did get the report set up correctly but only after my web host emailed me back with the correct URL to get to my logs. Interesting things in the report it gives you! What does it mean when a file or page are the most requested? Does this mean that someone physically typed this information in as the URL to get to these files? Or are "requests" simply the files that are brought up when a page is viewed?

Thanks for the feedback.

[martinibuster]

Just the files being delivered.