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hometownvalue
Joined: Apr 20, 2004
# Posts: 3
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Posted: 2004-May-30 22:43
I'm really confused right now and I was hoping someone could help me sort this out. I switched to Webalizer ver. 2.01 to better understand my web logs and then I received an email from Sedo.com, announcing their etracker weblog needed to installed to track my websites statistics. So I intalled that too, I thought I was doing pretty good, until then, now I have two completely different results:
Results from Webalizer
Avg Max
Hits per Hour 312 1985
Hits per Day 7509 12718
Files per Day 4941 8769
Pages per Day 2016 4301
Visits per Day 1331 1770
KBytes per Day 87667 172659
Now Sedo:
Visitors 466
Lateral entries 459
Page impressions 1183
(one day is all it will let me get)
The figures just don't add up if webalizer says on an average I get 1331 a day, how can Sedo say 466.
Sorry, I'm new at the web logs and just really confused. Anyone have any suggestions or experience with the new etracker? The worst part is it is based on European time and rolls over to show a low visitor count at my peak hours too.
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patrickh
Joined: Oct 05, 2001
# Posts: 2187
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Posted: 2004-Jun-04 16:44
I have never used Sedo eTracker, but I can offer a guess as to whats going on here.
The way these analyzers define a visitor is by taking all the activity from a single IP and clumping those hits as one persons visit. They also have a rule that will say if that IP is inactive for 15 minutes (for example), any activity from that IP after the 15 minute gap will count as a new visitor. Now all programs define this differently, so webalizer might have been defaulted to something like a 10 minute inactivity limit and Sedo could be set at 30 minutes, which would interpret the same information as less visitors since there is a higher threshold for inactivity.
We recently changed versions of DeepMetrix and went from 15 minutes to 30 minutes, and there was a noticable decline in the number of visitors reported while we were actually getting the general average that we always get. Most of these programs let you define this value, so you might want to poke around and see if you can get them the same. Keep in mind though that even with the same value, different programs will most likely give you varying reports, but it should be nowhere near as different as what you have going now; if you get a +/- 10% difference that would be understandable, though.
Hope that makes sense! Feel free to ask if you have any other questions, I probly didn't do the best job explaining that 
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