Business Support Internet

Overview:

This document will assist you in deciphering the traffic logs or "hit logs" for your website. If you have a Business Services website, there are a few options of viewing and managing your traffic logs of your website.

Getting Started:

There are programs availaible from the internet that will assist in analysing these logs, and turn the raw data into recognizable charts and graphs.
One such program is WebTrends, available at http://www.webtrends.com/

Another such program is Analog, available at http://mirror.sit.wisc.edu/analog/

Usability:

The traffic logs for your web site are located in your root ftp directory. A logs directory should be visible as soon as you log into your website directory. Within the logs directory, are files called access_log, some with dates at the end. The most current file is called access_log with NO date at the end.

The server will store logs for the past one month. Normally you would FTP and save a copy of the log you want to analyse to your local hard drive, and then open the log file with one of the log analysers. However, you will want to read the readme.txt that is included with the particular log analyser you choose to ensure success.