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Statistical Analyzers for HTTP Logs?

Posted by Cliff on from the talk-about-lots-of-mining,-data dept.

krishnaD asks: "I have been using webalizer to generate access log reports for the site but lately my customers are asking for statistics like average amount of time spent by visitors on site, if a person reaches a page X, what is the probability that from here he goes to Y? From which link people exited the site etc. Basically, they are asking for a detailed flow analysis of usage patterns of visitors. Are there any tools that will do this kind of analysis? I love to know what kind of tools other sysadmins use to generate reports for their clients."

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  1. Re:WebTrends by jslag · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've used WebTrends for about a year, and couldn't be less impressed. Randomly chokes on logs that webalizer handles without trouble. Hard-to-use interface. Reports a number of things that you really can't tell from web logs.


    On the plus side, the PHBs love it.

  2. Re:Not difficult by fdragon · · Score: 5, Informative

    But you cannot tie a particular IP address to a user. You have the problems of AOL users (each request from a different IP address) and corporations (and now many homes) using NAT or PAT devices to make 1 or more users have the same IP address.

    The best way to get around this is setting a session cookie via Apache. Then you key off that.

    --
    The program isn't debugged until the last user is dead.