[Phpwm] Web log analyser

[Dave Holmes]

Mike,

Sounds like you have access to the server to be able to analyse the logs
so you may also be in control of apache, most of the log analysers I've
ever looked at are guff....

I'd go with Google analytics and there is a way you can do this without
getting the designers to implement your tracking code in there sub
domains or micro sites.

Firstly us apache mod_rewrite rules to pipe all page requests through a
single PHP page, which then use the request URI to show the appropriate
page from the sub site.

Secondly if you then use the output buffering in PHP you will be able to
generate the whole page and then modify from your centralised pass
through page, by modify I mean inject your google analytics tracking
code before the end of the body tag.

All sub sites then tracked through one account.

Just a though

Dave


Mike Tipping wrote:
> Yes I've used googles download tracking before but this site is actually a
> collection of sites under the same domain all done by different designers so
> getting them to add google tracking code isn't going to work.
>
> It needs to be logfile analysis.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> On 6/11/09 12:06, "Stephen Orr" <steve at stephenorr.co.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>> You can set up Google Analytics to track file downloads too - I'm
>> pretty sure there's information on how to do that in their docs.
>> Obviously, it doesn't work if you're doing direct downloads, only if
>> you're going through a page first which is serving the file (but in
>> reality, you probably should be doing that anyway, precisely to enable
>> you to gather these sorts of statistics).
>>
>> I don't know of anything better than AWstats for log file analysis -
>> I'm sure there's products out there, but it's just not something I've
>> ever needed to study.
>>
>> 2009/11/6 Mike Tipping <mike at etuna.co.uk>:
>>     
>>> I need a web stats package for a big site.
>>>
>>> Currently I use AWStats - but that only gives an overview of the top pages
>>> and Google Analytic - but that doesn't track file downloads.
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend something that works through log file analysis and
>>> gives me the access stats for everything not just the top 50 pages.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
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