web statistics

[Tom]

I've set up awstats - a web statistics tool - again. I've used it before. When it's done analyzing last years logfiles, I will have interesting data regarding browsers used, etc.

I would also like to have country statistics, but the volume of log data is far too high to allow for that. I have more than 100 million lines of logfile that the tool goes through. currently at a speed of around 10,000 lines per second. Which means it'll take about 3 hours to do it all. Resolving location data would add several more hours to that. I may do it for the future, though.

I'll post the results here. It'll still take quite a while (it's at 17 mio. lines now).

[Tom]

A couple key data points - November 2011:

• 17970 unique visitors
• 88841 visitors
• 31.71 GB traffic

interesting/curious facts:

• userdata.php - the family page - is the most often viewed page, by far
• we're probably one of the few sites on the Internet that has more text data traffic than image files
• Windows (81%), Mac OS X (9%) and Linux (7%) are the top OS choices, but - 400 playstation and 300 Wii visits. :-)
• Firefox (56%) is the browser of choice, 2nd place goes to Google Chrome (21%), 3rd goes to ... no, it goes to Opera (7%) - that stupid IE abomination comes in at just 5.8% in 4th spot, just ahead of Safari (5.4%).

[De-Legro]

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Not surprised, that will be all the BM junkies refreshing every few minutes to see if there are any new messages, not that I um would have experience with that.

[Tom]

so, a bit of AJAX magic would help you? :-)

[Telrunya]

It's mostly a habit to check the family page I generally have BM in one of my tabs while I do other stuff, checking in every once in a while.

[De-Legro]

so, a bit of AJAX magic would help you? :-)

I was bitterly disappointed to find the RSS feed didn't work.

[Zakilevo]

It became a habit... checking the family page once every one or two hours...

[Tom]

I just fear that if I make an automatic checker, people will leave it on all day...

[De-Legro]

I would. So yeah probably best not to.

[Zakilevo]

Errr No.... That auto-checker will be on 24/7/365....

[Perth]

I just fear that if I make an automatic checker, people will leave it on all day...

Absolutely.

[Indirik]

Can it be given a timeout feature? Auto-check every ten minutes for an hour, then stop. Restart the time every time the user reloads the page.

[Tom]

So push-notification instead? E-Mail, Growl and iPhone? I'm sure there's something for Android as well...

[De-Legro]

If you do email, then that would cover all smart phones anyway.

[Kaltenthal]

What would be teh prob with having a RSS feed ?! Is it Server load or maybe the traffic? What is it that makes you decide that the RSS link should only point people to the long time defunct D-List ?!