[analog-help] Low counts in Analog for successful requests for pages

[Aengus]

Esposito, Richard <richard.esposito at boeing.com> wrote:
> I use Webtrends and Weblog Lite to run stats on my cfm database-driven
> site, and the server admin uses Analog. When I ran the Jan. 07 stats
> on my site using Webtrends and Weblog Lite, I got numbers in excess
> of 2 million but the server admin's number using Analog was under 1
> million. Any ideas what might account for that? Thanks.

There can be lots of reasons for the discrepancy, but the simple 
explanation is that you're not measuring the same thing. Without a lot 
more information about exactly what assumptions were made, the most 
obvious source of differences is that your Administrator excluded hits 
from specific IP addresses (a monitoring service, or internal users), or 
hits to specific pages or parts of the website.

It's also likely that one of you is counting .css or .js scripts that 
the other isn't, or even that one of you is counting image hits, and the 
other isn't.

(That and the fact that Webtrends numbers never seem to exactly match 
what's in the log files. The one thing that you can be very sure of is 
that Analogs counts are extremely reliable).

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