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Getting Statistical Reports of Your Web Site Traffic
No doubt, you are at least curious about the traffic that your web site attracts.
More likely, your business depends on obtaining detailed information about your web
site traffic, and adapting to that information. Our Virtual Server system
allows you to easily obtain all the statistical information you need to
know about usage of your web site.
Log File Analysis Programs
The actual data logged in your Virtual Server
Web Server Log Files is arcane, to say
the least. To make any sense of it, you need a log file analysis program to
process and analyze it for you. Fortunately there are numerous programs that
will do just that.
- WebTrends
WebTrends is a web server log analyzing software package that produces attractive
graphical reports of your web site traffic. It is easy to use since it runs on
your own Windows PC. Simply configure it to download your Virtual server log
files to your PC automatically and create predefined statistical reports. Those
reports can remain on your PC, or be automatically uploaded back to your Virtual
Server.
- Unix Software
There are a number of web server log file analyzing programs available that can be
installed directly on a Virtual Server. Most of these programs will
analyze your web server log files in-place and then create HTML, text, or even
e-mail reports of your Virtual web server traffic. Our Web Development
Team has made several of these available on all Virtual Server host machines. They
are pre-configured for easy installation, and best of all, they are completely free
of charge.
Scheduling Analysis Programs to Run Regularly
You will probably want your web server statistical reports to be created
regularly. For example, you may want a regular weekly report of activity
at your site, or perhaps an e-mail report delivered daily. The Unix
Cron utility can be used to automatically run such
scheduled processes.
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