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Advanced features of tracking software?

any program doing these things?

         

hairycoo

10:53 am on Oct 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I have tried trials and demos of stats/log analysis packages but I've yet to find one that offers (even in reports):

  • Traffic calendar for every keyword
  • Traffic calendar for every keyword from each major SE (wishful thinking?)
  • Clear separate stats for humans and SE (I don't want my visitor numbers distorted by bots)
  • Being able to see up close and personal the path each visitor took through the site (my current php stats program does this but lacks heavily in other areas)
  • Stickiest pages (most time spent)
  • Daily traffic per each search engine

Any affordable software out there offering these things, at least? Sticky me if you can't mention the name.

Larryhat

11:11 am on Oct 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hello Hairycoo:

Sorry I can't help, I'm using a piece of freeware, but would like the same things. I hope whoever codes these applications reads your post.

I want to add another suggestion, one that should be a piece of cake to code: Possible Hot Linked Images.
A separate table of .gif, .jpg etc. images which are NOT called by your own pages, but rather directly linked from outside pages. Some of those may be by permission, but it would be super easy to see which are not.

Here's another suggestion: A Garbage Stripping algorithm that cuts access_log files to half their size or less by removing junk like Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; .NET CLR 1.2.3.4.. Windows 98; FunWebProducts 1.2.3; AOL 9.0 Macintosh Opera Gecko you name it.

I don't need to see HTTP/1.1 a thousand times.
123.34.345 - - [03/OCT/2004;11:35:19 could be cut down to say
123.34.345 - 03OCT04 11:35:19 which is more readable anyway.

Am I alone in this? Any such feature should be optional of course.

Best - Larry

theposter

11:47 am on Oct 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi,

I had a made a post in the Supporters Forum regarding the fact that I was going to create an Open Source Tracking Application. Do drop in more such feature requests.

thePoster.

PS: Sticky me for more details.

dcrombie

1:33 pm on Oct 5, 2004 (gmt 0)



If you rely on other people to write the programs then they're never going to have everything that you want/need.
I suggest looking at ways of analysing your own logs.

eg. who's hot-linking your images and not already blocked?

awk -F\" '($3 !~ / 403 / && $2 ~ /^GET.*(jpg¦gif)/){print $4}' combined_log \ 
¦ sort ¦ uniq -c ¦ sort