Usage Reports

[guy]

In FrontPage, when I click View -> Reports -> Usage -> etc. I get the
message "There si no usage data available for this web, because it has not
been published to a server that supports usage analysis."

So this leads me to the questions:

What needs to be installed on the server so that usage data becomes
available to me? And is it a big thing to ask my host to install this?

If this is not possible then what other options are available to me to
garner usage information? (At the moment I have a few hit counters on a few
of the key pages but each one is generated manually by the host and is
laborious and time consuming to maintain and get report back figures on.)

Thanks

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

Hi, guy:

Usage reports are exclusive to an IIS server. For more information, see
these articles:
Usage Analysis:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289529
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289465
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289292
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;294395

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/frontpage/
FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;en-us;fp10se
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| In FrontPage, when I click View -> Reports -> Usage -> etc. I get the
| message "There si no usage data available for this web, because it has not
| been published to a server that supports usage analysis."
|
| So this leads me to the questions:
|
| What needs to be installed on the server so that usage data becomes
| available to me? And is it a big thing to ask my host to install this?
|
| If this is not possible then what other options are available to me to
| garner usage information? (At the moment I have a few hit counters on a
few
| of the key pages but each one is generated manually by the host and is
| laborious and time consuming to maintain and get report back figures on.)
|
| Thanks
|
|

 

[guy]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the answer and the links - interesting reading.

I subsequently contacted my web host and discovered that the web is hosted
on Unix servers and as such that feature isn't available to me.

How would I go about collecting Usage Stats from this point forward
considering that I'm using FP2002 as a client and my web is hosted on a Unix
server running FP extensions? Are there other utilities that I could use?

Regards,
Guy

 

[Steve Easton]

Does your hosting account come with a web masters Control Panel??
If so there "should" be a whole bunch of usage reports already enabled.

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

 

[guy]

Yes it does and I look at that from time to time but it's pretty much a
summary. I saw the amount of detail the FP2002 offers and was looking for
something like that. For example hit counters on every page.

I've placed a few of the host's hit counters on my key pages but it's a
laborious process to keep track of day to day usage... Unless someone can
point me to a link that gives tips about this sort of thing...

Thanks