Logan Pro Glossary

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Types of Reports

Web Objects

Statistics

Types of Reports

Index: The index report is the "home page" of the report tree. It is the starting point for navigating the report.
Summary: Summary reports contain a condensed version of many of the other reports, including the file, directory, and address reports. The summary report contains smaller versions of all these distinct reports in one file, so that you can get a quick overview.
Temporal: Bandwidth: The bandwidth report displays the number of hits, clients, and bytes over a given time period. You can filter the report by day, week, month, and year. For example, filtering by day would display one line for each day, whereas filtering by month would display one line for each month.
Resources: File: This report contains statistics for each object that is fetched from your web server, where an object may be a web page, image, file, etc. This report may be filtered to display all objects, web pages only, images only, files (neither pages nor images), or cgi-bin scripts.
Resources: Directory: Files on a web server are generally stored in a hierarchical directory structure. For example, if you have a URL called http://myserver.com/dir/page1.html, then that page is stored in a directory called /dir. The URL http://myserver.com/dir/page2.html would also be contained in /dir. The URL http://myserver.com/other_dir/page2.html would be contained in a different directory, /other_dir.
Resources: File Type: Each web object has a file extension as part of it's name. The extension is the part of the filename after the period (for example, the extension for 'page1.html' is '.html'. The extension for 'image1.jpg' is .jpg). Different extensions correspond to different types of files. For example, .html extensions are for web pages, and .jpg extensions are for images.
Demographics: Address: Each user of the website has a numeric IP address. The IP address is displayed as four different numbers separated by periods -- for example, 216.115.108.245. You can usually use the numeric IP address to uniquely identify the user, so you can tell how many objects a given user retrieves. The IP address is not very intuitive being composed of numbers -- Logan Pro does support an option to convert the IP addresses to more intuitive host names.
Demographics: Browser: The browser is the program that the user uses to display web pages on his computer. Microsoft Windows based computers typically use the "Internet Explorer" browser. Other popular browsers include Netscape, Mozilla, Lynx, and java-based browsers.
Demographics: Platform: The platform is the operating system that is on the user's computer. Popular operating system include various versions of Microsoft Windows (95, 98, NT, XP, etc), and Linux
Demographics: Minutes: The minute report shows the amount of time that a user spends on your website. This time is defined as the elapsed time between the first page accessed by the user and the last page accessed by the user. This statistic does not include the time the user has spent viewing the very last page as there is no way to infer that information, so the time displayed is slightly less than what the user actually spent on the site.
Referers: Refer Site: This report contains the names of the servers from which the client followed a link to get to your site. For example, if a user found your site on Yahoo, and followed a link from Yahoo to your site, then Yahoo would be listed as a refer site.
Referers: Refer Url: Similar to 'refer site', the refer url report includes the entire URL of the web page of the referer.
Referers: Search Queries: The search queries report includes statistics about search engines that point to your site. When a search engine sends a user to your website, it includes a list of the keywords that the user typed in his search query. The search query report may be filtered to display the entire query (i.e. everything the user typed), each individual word of the query, or each sub phrase of the query.
Server: Response Code: Whenever a server processes a web request, it assigns a response code. This could either be 200 (successful), or a variety of other codes, such as 404 (page not found).
Server: Bad Url: The Bad Url report contains a listing of the URLs that generated error response codes. For example, pages that weren't found, or pages that the user didn't have permission to view. This report is useful to locate broken links on your website.

Types of Objects

Page (aka Web Page): A page is a document that is displayed to the user. A page is typically an .html or .htm file. Pages may contain links to other pages and/or embedded images.
Image: Images are contained within pages. Images are typically .jpeg or .gif files.
Other-Files: Other-files are objects that are neither pages nor images. For example, an zip archive (.ZIP) or an application (.EXE) would be considered an other-file.
Cgi-Bin: Cgi-Bin scripts are scripts that are dynamically executed by the user. Cgi-bin scripts are used for such things as processing forms, displaying web counters, etc.

Access Statistics

Hits: Each time an object is fetched by the web server, a hit is registered. For example, if a user requests a page containing five images, the page will receive one hit, and each image will also receive one hit.
Clients: The client statistic is very similar to the hit statistic, but it factors out duplicate hits by the same end user. For example, if a user requests a page, and then clicks <refresh> to display the page again, this would only increment the client statistic once.
Bytes: The bytes statistic counts the number of total bytes for all hits of a given object. For example, assume a page is one kilobyte in size, and ten hits occur on that page. This would result in 10 kilobytes for the bytes statistic. [Note: some web servers are not configured to record the bytes statistic in their log files. If this is the case, the byte statistic will be 0]
Entry Page: An entry page is the first page that a client sees when he visits your site. For example, assume a client views three pages on your site, one.html, two.html, and three.html -- the very first page, one.html, would be counted as an entry page since it is the fist page that the client viewed.
Exit Page: The counterpart to entry pages, exit pages are the last page that a client views when he visits your site. As above, assume the client visits three pages -- one.html, two.html, and three.html. The last page, three.html, would be considered and exit page.
Single Access Object: A single access object is a page or image that is the only object that a user viewed from your site. For example, assume another website is linked to one of your images, image1.jpeg. When a user views the page on the other website, your image would be fetched and displayed. The end result would be a single access to your image, and no other accesses to your site. Single access statistics are useful to find instances such as this where other webmasters have linked into your website.

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