On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Ian Winship, Univ. Northumbria wrote:
> For the HyLiFe project we are looking at what information we will need to
> assess use and haven't found any transaction log analysis software that does
> what we want. We need something - for Digital Unix - that will analyse who the
> users are, particularly if there is authenticated access.
>
> Any ideas I can refer to our Unix server manager?
>
We found that any serious analysis of users will require more information
that the web server can log - even on its most verbose mode. For Internet
Archaeology we have asked users to complete an online form, the data from
which I then linked with that from the log files to supply the extra
detail.
See my paper in Issue 3 of Internet Archaeology for details of what I did:
http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue3/vince_index.html
By the way, if anyone has any suggestions about further statistical
analysis and wants a dataset to work on please contact me (once the two
datasets are related we can provide anonymous data by stripping out the IP
address etc).
In particular, we never tackled the automatic recognition of a "session"
and only had a crude stab at studying re-visits by assuming that requests
in different months were different visits.
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Alan Vince
Managing Editor, Internet Archaeology
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Phone: 01522 589992 (Lincoln) or 01904 433955 (York)
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