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.
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