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Web Log Analyze Your Data By Vickie J. Scanlon Your web log can be a great source of information. You can learn a lot about your website performance and your visitors, be it human or robots/spiders. It's all useful. In most cases, your web host provider provides you with log analysis software. Let's take a look at 3 of the most common. Web Log Analysis Software There are many log analysis software out there. The most common are the three below, with the Webalizer log analysis software being the most commonly used by web host providers. Urchin - Is one of the more popular solutions for website traffic analysis, especially with ISPs and web hosting. The Urchin Software Corp was acquired by Google in 4/2005. Thus, another avenue to looking at another set of statistical analysis is through your Google Analytics-if you utilized Adsense. Webalizer - This application is one of the most commonly used web server administration tools used. They include hits, visits, referrers, visitor countries, and amount of data downloaded. Analog - Is a free web log analysis software program, that is comparable to Webalizer or AWStats. However, it does not have a graphic interface, but uses bar graphs and text to analyze your data. But the data supplied is complete. Understanding Web Log Terminology Hit - each HTTP requested submitted by a browser is called a hit. However, even when the search engines makes a request, that is also counted. Page- When a page is listed it signifies that the HTTP request has been successful Visitor - Means simply that it is an actual person visiting your site. Host - Host are identified by their IP address or domain name. It tells you the host of the visitor User Agent-Another name for web browser Web Log-And Information It Provides But, of what value can your web log be to you, the webmaster? Your Web Log can give you a better picture of what is happening to your website, as well as, who is coming to your website. By looking at your web log you'll see some of the following: 1. Robots that view 2. HTTP referrer -- HTTP referrers are important to look at. It can determine what spiders and other websites are doing on your site. For more information: check out the article on Referrer Spam 3. Search Engines that visit 4. HTTP errors 5. Key words and keyword phases used to get to your website through the search engines. Website Analysis About the Author:
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