[analog-help] How does Analog count pdf file requests?

[Aengus]

Dave Iltis <dave at cyclingutah.com> wrote:
>> How does Analog count pdf file requests?

Analog reports on what's in your log file. If a PDF reader makes 
multiple requests to your web server when reading a single document, 
then there will be multiple requests in your logfile, and Analog will 
reflect that.

http://analog.cx/docs/faq.html#faq143


There's no surefire way to tell exactly how uses handled any given PDF 
file - some users will download the whole thing, generating a single 
request but only reading the first page, some will just read a couple of 
pages, generating a few different hits, some will read the whole thing, 
generating lots of requests in a single "session". One thing that you 
can do is look at the Status Code report and see how many 206 status 
codes were recorded - these are "Partial Content" status codes, and in 
most cases are only seen on PDF requests (or more precisely, PDF files 
are the ones most likely to be associated with a 206 Status Code). That 
will give you some additional context for interpreting the numbers in 
your request report.

Aengus