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Advanced

In this page, the user can control all of LogView's capabilities for viewing statistics.


The advanced statistics page

Selecting group


Select statistics group

As was the case on the Statistics page, the statistics group, if more than one is available, can be selected in a list box.

Selecting report


Select type of report

The user can select the kind of report from all the kinds that are available for the selected statistics group in the first list box on the row.

The list box after as default labeled Day is used to specify the granularity of the diagram or table. If days is selected here, a resulting bar chart will have one bar for each day for which data is available, and a table will accordingly have one row for each day. If instead month is selected, the bar chart will have one bar for each month, with a height that is the the sum of the all the values of the days of this month.

The list box labeled per selects what should be printed for example as labels on the bars of a bar chart. To get a chart where each day has it's own bar and the label Year-Week-Day (e g 1998-25-Tue) the user can select the report to be shown "as day, per week". A report that is "as day, per month", has the label Year-Month-Day (e g 1998-Jun-16) on its bars instead.

Trying to set the as value larger than the per value gives the following error message:

LogView Error: unit cannot be greater than per

Setting both values equal has an interesting effect when using the Sum feature, as we will see in the next section.

Selecting presentation


Select presentation

In the first list box, the user can choose between Append or Sum. Append is the default, and gives sums for each day, week, month or year. Using the Sum feature changes this behavior somewhat - instead of summing the data inside each day, month or year the data for several such units can be summed, to answer questions like "how many hits were processed in total between the 1998-06-02 and 1998-07-11?" However, to use this feature we have to use the trick to set the as and per time periods the same.

The two pictures below shows the difference in Append and Sum when the setting is month per month. The report is Search engines and the time period is between December, 1998 and January, 1999.


Append


Sum

Another scenario is when the user has set the report to days per week, and the time period is three weeks, where Append will present it as three weeks in a row. Sum will instead present it as one week, where each weekday is the sum of that weekday in all three weeks. Due to lack of space no screen-shots of this scenario is possible in the manual.

There is also a possibility to set the maximum number of rows to be shown. The term rows seem to imply the use of a table, but the limitation works on all kinds of diagrams as well, and then limits the number of bars, pie slices or other corresponding items.

Selecting from and to values


Select time period(TU)

The user can specify the exact time period for which statistics should be shown by selecting the years, months and days for the beginning and end of the period.

Selecting display


Select display type

When the user has specified all of the above, he can start the display process by pressing one of the display buttons in the row at the bottom of the page. These are divided into categories by their form of presentation.

Tables:

  • HTML table


    Hits at www.roxen.com, September 1998 through July 1999

    Settings: Hits as Month per Year, Append

  • ASCII table


    Most active domains at www.roxen.com, September 1998 through July 1999

    Settings: Most active domains as Month per Year, Sum

Charts:

  • Line chart


    Unique hosts at www.roxen.com, September 1998 through March 1999

    Setting: Unique hosts as Month per Year, Append

  • Bar chart


    Search engines at www.roxen.com, January 1999

    Settings: Search engines as Year per Month, Append

  • Sum bars chart


    Most active countries at www.roxen.com, September 1998 through July 1999

    Settings: Most active countries as Month per Month, Sum, max 7 rows

  • 2D pie chart


    Search engines at www.roxen.com, January 1999 through July 1999

    Settings: Search engines as Month per Month, Sum

  • 3D pie chart


    Hits at www.roxen.com, September 1998 through July 1999

    Settings: Hits as Month per Month, Append.

Miscellaneous:

  • Map

    A world map, nice for displaying statistics over Most active countries. Not available in any other case. Below is a slightly cut version of the map, made for this manual.


    Most active countries at www.roxen.com, September 1998 through July 1999

    Settings: Most active countries as Month per Year, Append

  • Export

    Exports the table in a tab/newline separated format, suitable for MS Excel.

  • Tag

    Displays the LogView RXML tag with all the parameters (see appendix B) that generates the created report. Great for cut-and-paste!


    Most active countries at www.roxen.com, September 1998 through July 1999

    Settings: UTSL! (Use the source Luke!) or read the tag-code and find out the right settings.