[analog-help] Suggestion for distributed log analysis?

[Stephen Turner]

On 01/01/07, Klaus Johannes Rusch <KlausRusch at atmedia.net> wrote:
>
> You are measuring something different though: with log analysis you
> measure hits to resources on your webserver(s), including images,
> downloadable files etc. and from JavaScript enabled browsers as well as
> other user agents like search engines, with pixel tracking you are
> measuring page views by JavaScript enabled browsers. Both are useful
> analyses but you won't get the same type of information.
>
> IBM developerWorks has a good article covering both approaches, see
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-mwt1/
>

Another article on the differences between the two methods is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_analytics (much of which I wrote).

-- 
Stephen Turner