Log Analysis - Mach5 Analyzer

I have multiple sites on same hosting plan.

[kevin_m]

I have multiple sites on the same hosting plan and was wondering if Mach5 Analyzer a good solution to run locally on my machine and extract the log information for each directory on the server? I know there is a bunch of posts I just didn't see anything specific to Mach5. Also if there are any suggestions in the same price range they would greatly appreciated.

[Reflect]

Hi,

I've been using this on multiple sites also. I just create seperate reports as each site has different needs and different information that I want from them.

I hear web trends is very nice but out of the low budget range that I am in.

Just an aside but thought it was worth throwing out. I now put all log files and reports on a RW CD for safe keeping. I lost around a years worth of log files and never felt sooooo helpless after the fact (tape backup was bad).

Brian

[kevin_m]

Thanks Reflect,
Webtrends is way out of my budget as well.

This sounds like a good solution. Quick question though, with your sites do you have to run a redirect on the root to point to the correct domain and folder,and if you do, do you know if it affects the spiders like google?

I am trying to make sense of all this. Right now I have a seperate folder for each site and a seperate hompage file in the main root, with all links pointing to the correct folder. But to run these reports effectively I would have to stick the homepage in the correct site folder to get accurate reports.

[tedster]

The Mach5 log analyzer is also known as FastStats - you can find some other threads if you use that name for a search.

[Reflect]

Sorry Kevin, can't help there.

My sites are all on different domains. Guess I should get some new glasses.

Brian

[JamesR]

>But to run these reports effectively I would have to stick the homepage in the correct site folder to get accurate reports.

Wouldn't it depend on where your log files are located on your hosting account? Or are you referring to trying to get the tree view and site retrieval features in FastStats?

[topr8]

if you have different log files for each site then no problem

if you have only one log file for all the sites then it is problematic, on one win2k host we run 5 different websites using server.transfer on the index page directing to different folders,

using the filters on fast stats we can analyse each sites internal pages unfortunately it cannot tell the difference between the index pages as it considers them all the same,

one solution is to import the log file into access (or any other database program) run queries that seperates out each of the different domains and then save the each query result in a delimited text file format that faststats can interpret.

[kevin_m]

topr8, my situation is similar to that. I have an index.asp page that redirects to the appropriate folder. My thinking was if I stick the homepage for each site in the folder, when I run the filter for that directory I would get and accurate log for that folder/site, since the index automatically redirects to the homepage.

However, I am curious if this could effect my placement with the spiders.