Odd Stats

Using webtrends

[brotherhood of LAN]

I asked my tech to allow ASP to be parsed on .htm pages. Since I asked him, the reported bandwidth used in a day by webtrends is below

DATES HITSPAGEVIEWS BANDWIDTHVISITS
Wed 08/07/2002 12,350 10,665 20,293 K 1,254
Thu 08/08/2002 5,539 3,825 16,634 K 1,170
Fri 08/09/2002 9,112 7,637 11,837 K 930
Sat 08/10/2002 4,353 3,331 2,024 K 961
Sun 08/11/2002 4,326 3,176 2,058 K 997
Mon 08/12/2002 6,184 4,439 3,158 K 1,277
Tue 08/13/2002 8,697 6,765 3,758 K 1,494

The change happened on Saturday. Pretty big difference. Is this a webtrends fault? I somehow doubt that file sizes can somehow shrink by 400% in the space of a few days.

What sort of thing would cause this? I'm thinking its webtrends at fault...or is it something to do with ASP...

[martin]

Do you have compression enabled for the output of ASP?

[brotherhood of LAN]

Not sure.

Is there a way for people on the board to find out without a URL?

[martin]

telnet url 80

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: url
Accept-encoding: gzip,deflate,identity

If you get clear text it isn't compressed, if it's scrambled it is.

You'd have to press Ctrl-M and Ctrl-J to send CRLF.

[martin]

OK that was pretty stupid.

Try

HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: url
Accept-encoding: gzip,deflate,identity

Then watch for the Transfer-encoding response header, otherwise you may mess your terminal/whatever.

[brotherhood of LAN]

Assuming that it is compressed...many pages on the site are between 4 and 8k

Yeah, many pages will be cached by the viewer...but maybe the K for per visitor or per view is a tad low in any event?