Saturday, May 19, 2007

Need of Log Analysis

Most web servers are providing the log files to the webmasters to track activity of their web sites. These log files saves everything related to website like
  • requested page URL
  • request date time
  • User IP
  • requested server IP
  • referral URL(from where the page was requested)
  • byte served or received details
  • user agent type and
  • so many other useful client server related information.

These all details are combined into a single line for every request and all requests are combined in single file. And every single file contains whole day activity.

But when we discuss about website, then every website runs on world wide so its log files contains too much data. This data is too much for human beings to understand but machines can process this data easily and log/data analysis programs can analyze this data easily and gives you meaning full results.

Minalyzer is one of the products in log analysis market which is specially developed for the webmaster or other administrative person. It helps in efficient web site administration and economic search engine optimization. We can also see some useful use cases of Minalyzer which represents its capability and representation style.

1. Visitor activity for tracking visitor activity.
2. Visitor analysis for spam tracking and junk traffic analysis.
3. Add campaign Analysis.
4. Error Analysis for Broken link analysis, client server performance analysis and so on.

Minalyzer also allows the user to create own reports as per their requirements and export reports in most popular formats for further processing or personal use.

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