Tracking users

Need help on how to track down where the user exits my site

[SIRokai]

I am trying to find a way to look up pages where my users exit and track down their browsing habits... sort of session tracking. I need ideas as I'm pretty new to this.

thanks
J

[engine]

Do you have access to your raw site logs?
Your webhost will be able to advise if they are available to you.
Once you've got the raw logs, it's possible to analyse the data.
Alternatively, you could install a log analysis program. [dmoz.org]

[SIRokai]

I have access to the raw txt file...I see the users IP, OS, Browser, page they hit on entry.

I dont see where they exit though. how can I analize the data?

J

[akkseo]

I'm not an expert at this, but from comparing data from different types of log files, I've gotten fairly good at reading them. If yours are anything like ours, the IP of your user should show up at each page they hit, which is usually corollated with a date & time. The latest entry for that IP would be the last page they visited, i.e. the exit page.

However, I strongly suggest using an analyzer of some sort. You can go batty reading raw logs. :)