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Sophisticated log analyser?

Looking for an advanced free tool

         

Scooter24

10:00 am on Oct 18, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I'd like to get a (daily) statistic of how many pages visitors of my site view, something like

1 page: # or % visitors
2-4 pages: ...
5-10: ....
10-40: ....
50+: ....

All this based on the access log file.

I also need a statistic over the duration of each session, a session being defined as a sequence of requests from one IP address with max 1-2 minutes between individual requests.

And to top it all I'd also like to extract the search terms from the search engine referrers (get a complete list of search items).

Need all this to better understand why people visit my site and what they do.

Webalizer won't give you this kind of detail. I also can't pay lots of money on a commercial product, as I don't get revenue from my site.

I think all this could be done with a PHP script which scans the lines of the access log file and generates a report. I could write such a tool myself, but maybe somebody has already thought about this issue and written a tool.

Nick_W

10:25 am on Oct 18, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I'm a recent convert to Sawmill. It's really detailed I think it would suit you just fine.

You'll have to search though as I don't hve the url to hand...

Nick

mnorton

12:35 pm on Oct 21, 2002 (gmt 0)

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[sawmill.net...]

However that tool is not free if you are looking for a free tool try analog [analog.cx...] or check this out for a list of many of the available tools

[dmoz.org...]

:)

cornwall

1:50 pm on Oct 21, 2002 (gmt 0)

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[dmoz.org ]

Interesting that this category in DMOZ does not feature Webtrends !

Mikkel Svendsen

5:43 pm on Oct 21, 2002 (gmt 0)

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> Interesting that this category in DMOZ does not feature Webtrends !

No, WebTrends never had a real interest in, or understanding of search engines or SEM :)