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Site Statistics

Many statistics about the usage of your web site are available through the Site Statistics option in the Control Panel. The statistics are generated by the http-analyze program, by Rent-A-Guru. Statistics are kept on file for a year and can be kept longer upon request.

(You also have access to your raw logs if you wish to use your own statistics program. Log files are available from within your your_domain-logs directory, and are kept for two months. Please download these once a month if you need them.)

Note: This documentation provides an overview on using the Site Statistics option. For a more in-depth explanation, please visit the http-analyze web site.

How To View Your Site Statistics (with Navigation Window):

1. From the Control Panel, select the Site Statistics option. The WWW Access Statistics page displays.

2. There are a number of options available on this main statistics menu page:

• Statistics for the last 12 months: Shows the web statistics for the 12-month period ending in the current month.
• Statistics for <Year>: Shows the web statistics for the given year.
• Frames version: Provides an alternate way of viewing statistics for users that prefer it.

(For this explanation, a non-frame example will be shown, but we recommend the frames navigation for daily use.)

3. Select the Statistics for the last 12 months link. First, a Navigation Window opens which provides a way for you to navigate through the different displays of statistics. It is here that you can determine which month you would like to focus on.

A new page displays in the existing browser window, which shows a chart and table of statistics for the current month.

4. The main statistics displayed on this page are:

Files: The number of times a web browser requests and the server delivers any kind of file, text or images or anything else.

Pageviews: The number of times web browsers have requested text or html files from your site. This allows you to estimate more closely a count of pages viewed.

Sessions: The number of unique hostnames or IP addresses accessing the server during a given period of time. 

Kbytes Sent: The amount of data sent during the summary period as reported by the server.

Referrer URLs: Where your visitor came from and how he found you. (If this information is unavailable for a user, the request will appear under Unknown.)

For more information on how to interpret statistics and to read about the limitations of what statistics can't show you, see http://www.http-analyze.org/manual2.4.

5. Use the Navigation Window to select a specific month. Once you are at the month level of data, many more statistic options become available to you.

6. Selecting one of these statistical options in the Navigation window causes the statistics to be displayed in the main browser window. For instance, selecting the Hits by Day link results in the following (shown below).

7. Each link in the navigation window will display a different set of statistics in the main window.
 

How To View Your Site Statistics (Frames Version):

1. From the Control Panel, select the Site Statistics option. The WWW Access Statistics page displays.

2. Select the Frames Version link below the Statistics for the last 12 months text. The same summary chart and table appear in the main frame of the browser, but rather than having the statistic controls open in a new “Navigation Window”, they appear instead in the control frame to the left.

3. The main statistics displayed on this page are the same as described in the previous section.

4. Use the Control Frame to select a specific month. Then select the type of statistic you would like to see by clicking on the appropriate button in the Control Frame. The statistical information that you requested appears in the main frame.

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