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Peer Review Wanted

Karl Groves

2007-03-23, 7:19 pm

Some time ago, I wrote an article called "The Misuse of Server Log Files
for Usability Analysis". It has been present on two of my sites since
then. I feel it is a strong piece. I've recently expanded upon it, for
clarity reasons, and welcome any and all comments any of you have.
The URL to the MS Word version is here: http://tinyurl.com/3bgvmh (the
version on my sites is not this most current one)

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Phil Payne

2007-03-23, 7:19 pm

Jeez, man - that takes guts.

I'll have a good read tomorrow.

2007-03-24, 4:18 am

In article <Xns98FC9D104BEF0karlkarlcorecom@199.45.49.11>,
karl@NOSPAMkarlcore.com says...
> Some time ago, I wrote an article called "The Misuse of Server Log Files
> for Usability Analysis". It has been present on two of my sites since
> then. I feel it is a strong piece. I've recently expanded upon it, for
> clarity reasons, and welcome any and all comments any of you have.
> The URL to the MS Word version is here: http://tinyurl.com/3bgvmh (the
> version on my sites is not this most current one)
>
>
A good and useful article. You might want to add a few more factors:

1. Bugs in the analysis program.

2. User peculiarities. For example, if I look at your robots.txt, will I
be an "unknown robot"? If so, for how long?

3. Caching control. On one of my sites, all significant pages are php.
This should eliminate page caching (but not all file caching), and, I
think, mostly does.

Sig

Blinky the Shark

2007-03-24, 4:18 am

s wrote:
> In article <Xns98FC9D104BEF0karlkarlcorecom@199.45.49.11>,
> karl@NOSPAMkarlcore.com says...
> A good and useful article. You might want to add a few more factors:
>
> 1. Bugs in the analysis program.

That wascally wabbit!

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Paul Watt

2007-03-24, 7:18 am

"Blinky the Shark" <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote in message
news:slrnf09g09.6s8.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net...
>s wrote:
>
> That wascally wabbit!
>
>

Dude, that actually made me laugh out loud, i'm still chuckling you silly
sausage.

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Karl Groves

2007-03-24, 7:19 pm

s <caff987@logsin.org> wrote in news:MPG.206e5087d137446f989680@felix:

> In article <Xns98FC9D104BEF0karlkarlcorecom@199.45.49.11>,
> karl@NOSPAMkarlcore.com says...
> A good and useful article. You might want to add a few more factors:
>
> 1. Bugs in the analysis program.

This is a good point. In fact, I may mention that there's a wide variance
in how analysis programs work. Anyone with CPanel (which typically comes
with Webalizer, AWStats, and Analog Stats) can tell you there's a big
difference in what gets reported.

>
> 2. User peculiarities. For example, if I look at your robots.txt, will
> I be an "unknown robot"? If so, for how long?
>
> 3. Caching control. On one of my sites, all significant pages are php.
> This should eliminate page caching (but not all file caching), and, I
> think, mostly does.

True. Though it depends upon which Cache Control headers you set and how
you set them.
http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/#CACHE-CONTROL

Thanks for the feedback!

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Karl Groves
http://www.thehotrodclassifieds.com

Blinky the Shark

2007-03-24, 7:20 pm

Paul Watt wrote:
>
> "Blinky the Shark" <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote in message
> news:slrnf09g09.6s8.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net...
> Dude, that actually made me laugh out loud, i'm still chuckling you silly
> sausage.

Shark sausage. Well, I suppose someone, somewhere has made some... :)

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