explain CGI not much logging because typical system logs can help on UNIX systems. notthe case as much anymore now that we’ve gone GUI on XWindows and server are paired for performance. not the typical setup.
Working Draft 960323, March 23, 1996. Will get HTTP referer Will help show how often an event occurred. Will help show how ISP’s can setup caches and many users.
Downie, Stephen J. 1996. Informetrics and the World Wide Web: a case study and discussion. Paper read at Canadian Association for Information Science, June 2-3, at University of Toronto. The power of these techniques is that they can be merged to develop a detailed scenario of a user's visit(s) to the Web site and their preferences, problems and actions. When using bibliometric analysis techniques, Downie discovered via a rank-frequency table that requests conformed to a Zipfian distribution (Downie 1996) Other results confirm that poor Web server configuration and lack of access or use of full log files can hinder further results. It is also worth noting that Downie attends to ethical observation issues that many Webmasters and information system professionals don't normally consider. I hope a growing awareness of these issues continue. User based shows by domain, country, institution, and individual user. Shows us who thinks what is important to them. File based - low use means poorly indexed or linked document. Graphic files can throw this off however. Request - what users are looking at Byte is pure throughput, might show that usage is different at times of day (robots). Point to server problems. Session based can show a whole user visit with the site - Log Tools are great at examining this.