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Logging sites

When someone retrieves a page from a web site, all the actions this person does is saved to a file in a special log format. Every action from downloading files, fetching HTML-pages with pictures to what web-browser or operating system the user has is saved as plain text in this file. This file can later be analyzed to find out various behaviors the site's users have.

The process of building a log file works something like this: the users browser sends requests to your Web server for various resources. These resources may include HTML, graphics, audio, and whatever other types of files are on the site. Upon receiving the request from a browser, your Web server accesses the file and sends it back to the client browser.

A lot of useful information is buried in this file. Information about where bottlenecks and errors occur in the server or on the site or where the most popular features on the site are.

The information gathered in the log files can as all statistics information be made to fool those not as attentive or those who don't have any knowledge about the area the statistics is for. Here is a screen-shot that there is obviously something fishy about.


It is easy too fool those not paying attention

To make the best use of statistics information it is important to know what all functions and special terms concerning LogView means. Hence, a compilation of all the important terms and functions in LogView can be found in the Terms and functions page.