Terms and functions
Terms
This part describes the difficult words and terms in LogView. These
words are either web analysis terms or used by LogView to describe
it's functions.
- Bandwidth
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In a general sense, this term describes information-carrying capacity.
In LogView this applies to how much data (in bits per second) that has
been transferred from the server.
- Hit
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A hit is a request from a browser to the server. Every element of a
requested page, text, pictures, and interactive items is counted as
one hit to the server. A normal web page contains an average of at
least six elements, i.e. six hits. Hits is not the preferred way of
measuring traffic on a site as the number of hits often varies widely.
- Page load
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Page load aka page views or page deliveries gives the number of times
a web page has been requested. Page load, not hits, are the preferred
counting method site-traffic estimates and measurement.
- Search engine
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The search functions can identify the following search engines: AOL
Netfind, Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek, Hotbot, Lycos and Yahoo.
- Session
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A session is tied to a hostname where the hits has occured up to 20
minutes between each other.
- Period of time/time period
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In LogView reports can be created to show the data between two points
of time. What is in between those two points of time is the period of
time.
- User variable
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Variables which the administrator or the privileged user can set in
one of the LogView wizards found in the configurations interface. Some
of the functions makes use of these variables when monitoring the log
files. This term is only used when describing some of the functions
below.
Functions
This part describes all the functions used to present data about the
site in LogView.
Site activity
This group of functions monitors the overall activity on the site.
- Hits
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Gives a summary of the number of hits during the period of time.
- Page load
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Summaries the number of hits per time period and page.
- Bandwidth
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Calculates the average number of sent bits per second and time period.
Visitor origins
This group of functions monitors where hits originates from.
- Most active countries
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This function describes which countries are generating the most hits.
- Most active domains
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This function tells which internet domains are responsible for
generating most hits. A domain can be roxen.com, foobar.net, etc.
- Most active hosts
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This term gives a summary of each hosts hits. The most active host is
the one who has the most hits. A host can e.g., be an IP-number.
Authentications
Gives information about user logins.
- Authenticated users
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Gives a summary of the number of hits/time period and authenticated user.
- Authenticated hosts & users
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Gives a summary of the number of hits/time period, hostname and the
authenticated user.
Popular contents
This group of function monitors what has been requested on the site.
- Popular pages
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Gives a summary of hits/time period and page.
- Popular non-pages
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Gives a summary of hits/time period and non-page, where non-pages are all files
which are not pages e.g., a zip-file or a pdf-document.
- Popular directories
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Gives a summary of hits/time period and directory.
Visitor sessions
This group of functions gives information about visitors coherent
sessions.
- Average hits & pages per session
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This function calculates the average number of hits and the average
number of pages per time period and session.
- Average session length
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This functions calculates the average session length in minutes per TU.
- Most frequent entry pages
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Summaries the number of hits per time period and page where the page is the first
page accessed in a session.
- Most frequent exit pages
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Summaries the number of hits per time period and page where the page is the last
page accessed in a session.
Visitor profiles
This group of functions gives miscellaneous information about the
users.
- Most common OS
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Summaries the number of hits per operating system and time period.
- Most common browser
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Summaries the number of hits per browser and time period.
- Most common browser & version
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Summaries the number of hits per unique browser version and time period.
- Most common browser, version & OS
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Summaries the number of hits per unique browser version, it's operating
system and time period.
Pathways
This group of functions monitors links that points towards the site.
- Internal links, pages
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Summaries the number of hits to the linked page (the "to" page) where
the link-page (the "from" page) was an internal page. Pages that match
the user variables Server Domain Name or Server Alias
are counted as internal pages e.g., all pages on your.site.com
are internal pages.
- External links, pages
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Summaries the number of hits to the linked page where the link page
was an external page.
- External links, non-pages
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Calculates the number of hits to files which are not pages e.g.,
zip-files, pdf documents, etc.
Search
This group of functions gives information about visitors who hahave
found the site using search engines.
- Search hits
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Summaries the number of hits where the previous page was a
search engine.
- Search words
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Summaries the number of words in the search string per time period where the
previous page was a search engine. The stopwords 'and', 'or', 'not',
'the', 'an', 'a', 'is' and 'are' are not counted.
- Search phrases
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Summaries the number of phrases per time period where the previous page was a
search engine and the phrase a search string.
- Search engines
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Summaries the number of hits per search engine where the previous page
was a search engine.
Download
This group of functions monitors which downloads have been made.
- Download hits
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Summaries the number of hits per time period where the filename
matches the uservaiable Download files i.e., total number of
downloads.
- Popular files
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Summaries the number of hits per time period and filename, where the filename
matches the user variable Download files i.e., sorted by files.
Maintenance
This group of functions gives information necassary for troubleshooting.
- Return code summary
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Summaries the number of returned status codes.
- Error code specification
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Summaries the number of returned status codes per time period and
filename, where the status code is an error code i.e., separated from
200 and the interval 300-399.
Extensions
This function monitors the number of unique hosts who have accessed
the site.
- Unique hosts
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Summaries the number of hits per time period and unique host, where a host can
be represented by a hostname or an IP-number. It should be noted that
both hostname and IP-number can represent the same host, which implies
that they will be counted as two different hosts. This is a known bug.
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