Hit counter vs. Webtrends

[Dave]

Hi;

I just ran a webtrends report on an intranet page and it
reported 25 hits for the entire month of November. The
hit counter on the page, however, shows over 1,200 (for
the last 3 months, which is how long it's been there), and
appears to work correctly.

The counter had been reset at the initial publish, so I
assume it's accurate. However, there's no way the other
two months could be so drastically different from November
to account for 1,200 more hits. I'm more inclined to
believe the hit counter, as 25 seems awful low for what
this page is on our site.

The Webtrends report seems to be set up properly and the
logs it's using are not suspiciously small or few.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Dave

 

[Steve Easton]

If you have a FP hit counter installed, why bother
with WebTrends.
Something to remember is that webtrends stats run on a
"third party" server and who's to say theirs is always "up."
hth

 

[Jim Buyens]

-----Original Message-----

Hi;
Howdy.

I just ran a webtrends report on an intranet page and it
reported 25 hits for the entire month of November. The
hit counter on the page, however, shows over 1,200 (for
the last 3 months, which is how long it's been there),
and appears to work correctly.

WebTrends is probably missing some log records. For
example, Web trends might be processing logs once a week,
and you're discarding logs more than a day old.

Or, perhaps the WebTrends process stopped running after
the first day.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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[Jim Cheshire]

Dave,

Are you simply using WebTrends to analyze the IIS logs? If so, that's going
to be MUCH more accurate than the FrontPage Hit Counter. For example, if I
go to your page and hit refresh in my browser 20 times, that counts as 20
hits as far as the Hit Counter is concerned. As far as WebTrends is
concerned, that counts as 1 hit. Obviously the latter is the number you
want.

I think the confusion you're seeing in your responses is that you haven't
provided enough specific information to tell precisely what you're doing.

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