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Information about the operation
of your site is critical
for decision-making. To
obtain this information,
you need to analyze statistics
data that is written to
log files in your home directory
on the server:
Error log - stores data
about errors generated by
the server (e.g. Page Not
Found error) or by your
CGI scripts.
Transfer
log - stores combined data
about every visit to your
site, including:
- Remote host
IP (i.e. visitor's IP)
- Time of
request (i.e. when visitor
requested the page)
- First line
of request
- Error generated
by request, if any
- Size of
message sent in response
to the request
- Referrer
(i.e. from which page
visitor was directed)
- Agent ID
(i.e. type of browser
or another agent and related
information, such as user's
OS, etc.)
Referrer log
- stores the list of URLs
from which visitors are
referred to your site;
Agent log -
stores data about agents
used to enter the site --
such as browsers or any
other Internet-based software
-- and all related data.
To enable or disable
writing log files, do the
following:
- Click the
Web Options icon on your
control panel home page
- Select the
Domain name you need
- On the page
that shows, scroll down
to the Settings section
and click the ON/OFF icon
next to the log files.
To view the log files
records, do the following:
- Click the
Web Options icon on your
control panel home page.
- Choose the
necessary domain
- Scroll down
to Log files and click
the View icon next to
it.
- List of
log files shows.
- Click the
necessary file and all
its records will show.
Note: Entering end
in the Line Number field
will show a list of records
from the tail of a logfile.
The statistics
data in the log files is
difficult to read. Web analyzers
will read log files to produce
visual reports in HTML format
for viewing through a browser.
To enable
these analyzers and view
statistics reports for your
sites, do the following:
- Click the
Stats icon to go to the
Statistics page.
- Enable ModLogAn
or Analyzer for this domain.
- Click the
Apply link on the right
of this domain.
- Click the
View icon to see your
statistics report.
Note: To use Urchin,
you need to buy a license.
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