interpreting analog’s log analysis output

I can’t understand it!

[trismegisto]

Hi everybody.

I have just discovered my logs in my site, i downloaded them, and used analog to interpret them, however, I’m very confused about the meaning of the graphs, i thought that the analog output would be something like:

127.0.0.1 - frank [10/Oct/2000:13:55:36 -0700] "GET /apache_pb.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 2326 "http://www.example.com/start.html" "Mozilla/4.08 [en] (Win98; I ;Nav)"

But i just get a series of graphics and very “general” data, like in the domain report: (unresolved numerical addresses); or in the host report, in which i get just numerical values like 200.58.102.5, also, at the end of this report, i can read: (not listed 337 hosts) 47.37%, why does this happen? Is it my server configuration? Is it analog’s configuration?

Also, i’ve read that other members use the log file information to track keyword usage in the search engines, how do they do that? Where does analog puts this information?

In my logs i’ve also found that, in the file report, the most requested files are .gif’s and .jpg’s, why does this happen? I think i read that other members here use an .htaccess to prevent the images to be so requested. Is that a good alternative, or is a must?

I think those are many questions!, so, to put it more general, i would like to have more detailed information about my visitors, how can i accomplish this with just my log files and a free program like analog?

Thanks in advance for the answers.

[ukgimp]

you need to have a delve into the configuration file

[analog.cx...]

There are loads of settings. It does assume that you are recording the information however. If you dont log it you wont be able to se it.

Cheers

[trismegisto]

i think that will fix it, thanks ukgimp.

[MotherE]

trismegisto,

I use analog. You can spend a day exploring all the different settings. I use just a little of what it does. I don't bother with the graphs. I've got a lot of other stuff turned off too. It basically tells me where people come from and what they searched for.

Here is my configuration file.

REFERRER On
REFEXCLUDE [your-domain[...]
REFEXCLUDE [[i]your-domain[...]
REFLINKINCLUDE *
REFFLOOR 1r

REQLINKINCLUDE pages
REQFLOOR 1r
FAILURE ON
FAILREF ON
FAILREFLINKINCLUDE *

SEARCHQUERY On
SEARCHQUERYFLOOR 1r

REFSITE On
REFSITEFLOOR 1r

DOMAIN Off
ORGANISATION Off
OSREP Off
MONTHLY off
DAILYSUM off
WEEKLY OFF
HOURLYSUM off
FILETYPE off
SIZE OFF
BROWSERSUM OFF
BROWSERREP OFF
DESCRIPTIONS OFF
ALLCHART OFF

[trismegisto]

Thanks for sharing that information MotherE.

I’ll definitely read more carefully about analog’s config file.