Re: Intepreting Site Statistics

by George Bray <listoid(at)linkalarm.com>

Date:	Thu, 4 May 2000 01:17:31 -0812
To:	hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org
Cc:	Jim Tom Polk <jtpolk(at)texas.net>
References:	texas
	todo: View Thread, Original

Just a small addition to Jim's excellent answer:

Not all browsers pass a referrer to your server, notably IE4 and 
probably many prior versions.

Another good log analyzer is Funnel Web at 
http://www.activeconcepts.com/ - they have a demo.  The pro version 
show "click streams" or "mean paths" - the most commonly followed 
links through your site.  Very interesting stats for optimizing a 
site.

	George

At 5:34 AM -0500 3/5/00, Jim Tom Polk wrote:
>Referrers is where a request came from. When a web page is requested
>from your server, the link that was clicked to get to your page is
>included in the request for your web page.
>
>For instance, if someone is at the page http://someserer.com/index.html,
>and clicks a link that takes them to http://yourserver.com/index.html,
>the url that was clicked to get the user from someserver.com to
>yourserver.com is included in the request and is logged as
>http://someserver.com/index.html -- a referrer!
-- 
George Bray
http://linkalarm.com
LinkAlarm - Web Site Link Validation Service

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