Thanks very much for all your responses.
I've another question about log analysis. One of the graphs produced by webtrends is a breakdown of visit figures by number of pages viewed. For our sites, around 40% of the visitors view 0 pages ie. 40% of visits download files without visiting a HTML web page. Presumably this is requests for images on our server, embedded on other sites, or people downloading pdfs directly via a link on google, say. We get a lot of requests for images from myspace pages and discussion boards. There's also a small number of subscribers to RSS feeds who don't visit the site directly.
Should we subtract that figure when counting the number of visitors to our site? It does include people who are using our content, just not in the traditional manner of visiting the site and reading a web page. Perhaps we need to look at separate services, like feedburner, to keep track of those?
Interesting to note by the way, that if we subtract webtrends' visits from spiders, and visits that view 0 pages, from the total visits figure then the number you get isn't far off the number reported by google analytics for the same period.
Jim
Jim O'Donnell
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