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Terms and functions

Terms
This part describes the difficult words and terms in LogView. These words are either web analysis terms or used by LogView to describe it's functions.

Bandwidth
In a general sense, this term describes information-carrying capacity. In LogView this applies to how much data (in bits per second) that has been transferred from the server.
Hit
A hit is a request from a browser to the server. Every element of a requested page, text, pictures, and interactive items is counted as one hit to the server. A normal web page contains an average of at least six elements, i.e. six hits. Hits is not the preferred way of measuring traffic on a site as the number of hits often varies widely.
Page load
Page load aka page views or page deliveries gives the number of times a web page has been requested. Page load, not hits, are the preferred counting method site-traffic estimates and measurement.
Search engine
The search functions can identify the following search engines: AOL Netfind, Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek, Hotbot, Lycos and Yahoo.
Session
A session is tied to a hostname where the hits has occured up to 20 minutes between each other.
Period of time/time period
In LogView reports can be created to show the data between two points of time. What is in between those two points of time is the period of time.
User variable
Variables which the administrator or the privileged user can set in one of the LogView wizards found in the configurations interface. Some of the functions makes use of these variables when monitoring the log files. This term is only used when describing some of the functions below.

Functions
This part describes all the functions used to present data about the site in LogView.

Site activity
This group of functions monitors the overall activity on the site.

Hits
Gives a summary of the number of hits during the period of time.
Page load
Summaries the number of hits per time period and page.
Bandwidth
Calculates the average number of sent bits per second and time period.

Visitor origins
This group of functions monitors where hits originates from.

Most active countries
This function describes which countries are generating the most hits.
Most active domains
This function tells which internet domains are responsible for generating most hits. A domain can be roxen.com, foobar.net, etc.
Most active hosts
This term gives a summary of each hosts hits. The most active host is the one who has the most hits. A host can e.g., be an IP-number.

Authentications
Gives information about user logins.

Authenticated users
Gives a summary of the number of hits/time period and authenticated user.
Authenticated hosts & users
Gives a summary of the number of hits/time period, hostname and the authenticated user.

Popular contents
This group of function monitors what has been requested on the site.

Popular pages
Gives a summary of hits/time period and page.
Popular non-pages
Gives a summary of hits/time period and non-page, where non-pages are all files which are not pages e.g., a zip-file or a pdf-document.
Popular directories
Gives a summary of hits/time period and directory.

Visitor sessions
This group of functions gives information about visitors coherent sessions.

Average hits & pages per session
This function calculates the average number of hits and the average number of pages per time period and session.
Average session length
This functions calculates the average session length in minutes per TU.
Most frequent entry pages
Summaries the number of hits per time period and page where the page is the first page accessed in a session.
Most frequent exit pages
Summaries the number of hits per time period and page where the page is the last page accessed in a session.

Visitor profiles
This group of functions gives miscellaneous information about the users.

Most common OS
Summaries the number of hits per operating system and time period.
Most common browser
Summaries the number of hits per browser and time period.
Most common browser & version
Summaries the number of hits per unique browser version and time period.
Most common browser, version & OS
Summaries the number of hits per unique browser version, it's operating system and time period.

Pathways
This group of functions monitors links that points towards the site.

Internal links, pages
Summaries the number of hits to the linked page (the "to" page) where the link-page (the "from" page) was an internal page. Pages that match the user variables Server Domain Name or Server Alias are counted as internal pages e.g., all pages on your.site.com are internal pages.
External links, pages
Summaries the number of hits to the linked page where the link page was an external page.
External links, non-pages
Calculates the number of hits to files which are not pages e.g., zip-files, pdf documents, etc.

Search
This group of functions gives information about visitors who hahave found the site using search engines.

Search hits
Summaries the number of hits where the previous page was a search engine.
Search words
Summaries the number of words in the search string per time period where the previous page was a search engine. The stopwords 'and', 'or', 'not', 'the', 'an', 'a', 'is' and 'are' are not counted.
Search phrases
Summaries the number of phrases per time period where the previous page was a search engine and the phrase a search string.
Search engines
Summaries the number of hits per search engine where the previous page was a search engine.

Download
This group of functions monitors which downloads have been made.

Download hits
Summaries the number of hits per time period where the filename matches the uservaiable Download files i.e., total number of downloads.
Popular files
Summaries the number of hits per time period and filename, where the filename matches the user variable Download files i.e., sorted by files.

Maintenance
This group of functions gives information necassary for troubleshooting.

Return code summary
Summaries the number of returned status codes.
Error code specification
Summaries the number of returned status codes per time period and filename, where the status code is an error code i.e., separated from 200 and the interval 300-399.

Extensions
This function monitors the number of unique hosts who have accessed the site.

Unique hosts
Summaries the number of hits per time period and unique host, where a host can be represented by a hostname or an IP-number. It should be noted that both hostname and IP-number can represent the same host, which implies that they will be counted as two different hosts. This is a known bug.