> : Web Tracker is an interactive, graphical web server logfile analyzer.
> :
> : Web Tracker features rapid drill-down, geographic displays and
> : sophisticated trending. Web Tracker supports advanced statistical
> : sampling as a way to interactively analyze very large log files.
> :
> : Version 1.1 adds support for Combined Logfiles (incorporating
> : Agent and Referrer information). Find out which browsers and
> : operating systems people are using. See how effectively your
> : site is being promoted by identifying where visitors found
> : your link.
> :
> : A free 7 day evaluation is available from
> : http://www.cqminc.com/webtrack/webtrack.htm
> : --
> : Peter Phaal
> : Cambridge Quality Management, Inc.
> : URL: http://www.CQMInc.com/
> And is the worst log analysis tool I've seen so far. It is not even able
to
> cope with a 100 MB log file. Instead it recommends statistical sampling,
> i.e. use only every 6th or whatever log entry for analysis.
> dave
> --
> David-Michael Lincke
> Research Assistant
> Institute for Information Management IWI-HSG, University of St. Gallen
> URL: http://www-iwi.unisg.ch/about/team/dal.html
If you are looking for a REPORTING tool that slowly goes through
your entire log file and produces a fixed set of reports each day,
then Web Tracker probably is not what you are looking for. There
are plenty of REPORTING tools that will perform this function and
there didn't seem any point in writing yet another.
Reporting tools leave a big gap. What do you do if a report shows
and interesting increase in activity or and increase in errors?
You need to go back to the logs and run a second more detailed
report to examine the issue. This can take many tens of minutes.
This report may answer some of you questions, but raise further
issues. Time for another report (and a coffee break!).
Web Tracker is designed for fast interactive response so that you
can very quickly analyze access patterns. It works just as well on
1 Megabyte as it does on 100 Gigabytes. It does so by using
statistical sampling (the same technique used to compute TV ratings,
test the quality of products off a production line etc). It trades
off a small amount of accuracy (typically < 1%) to give very fast
reponse times.
Make up your own mind about Web Tracker. You can download a free
seven day evaluation from http://www.CQMInc.com/webtrack/webtrack.htm
and you may want to also check out the sampling scripts at
http://www.CQMInc.com/wtuser/wtsample.htm.
--
Peter Phaal
Cambridge Quality Management, Inc.
URL: http://www.CQMInc.com/
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