This guide will
help you understand your World-Wide Web Access Statistics report. This
is not a real report; the information shown below is just an example.
If you need help accessing the web report for your site, please contact
our support department.
Totals for Summary
Period: Oct 28 1996 to Nov 3 1996
Files Transmitted During Summary Period 120
Bytes Transmitted During Summary Period 1049725
Average Files Transmitted Daily 17
Average Bytes Transmitted Daily 149961
This basically means:
- 120 files were
transferred from the web site to people's browsers between 10/28 and
11/3.
- The cumulative
total of these 120 files was 1049725 bytes.
- On average, 17
files were transmitted daily.
- On average, a
total of 149.961K of data was transmitted daily.
%Reqs %Byte Bytes Sent Requests Date
----- ----- ------------ -------- |------------
13.33 6.20 65122 16 | Oct 28 1996
21.67 17.56 184286 26 | Oct 29 1996
9.17 8.21 86176 11 | Oct 30 1996
21.67 3.71 38933 26 | Oct 31 1996
19.17 53.13 557719 23 | Nov 1 1996
5.83 2.89 30369 7 | Nov 2 1996
9.17 8.30 87120 11 | Nov 3 1996
The table above is
a day-by-day look at the traffic on a web site.
%Reqs is
a percentage of the total number of requests during the report period.
%Byte is
a percentage of the total number of bytes transferred during the report
period.
A request
is also known as a hit. A hit is recorded whenever a browser
requests something from your site. This could be an HTML file, GIF,
JPG, etc.
For example,
if your home page had three pictures on it, it would register 4 hits
when a browser connected to your URL: 1 for the page (html file), and
1 for each picture on the page.
The
first entry on the table above can be read from right to left like this:
- On 10/28/96,
there were 16 hits on the server, totalling 65122 bytes.
- 6.20
percent of the total number of bytes transferred during the report
period were transferred on 10/28.
- 13.33
percent of the total number of hits during the report period took
place on 10/28.
Hits can
be deceiving, however. If the 10/28 entry was a page that contained 15
pictures, it would mean that the page was only accessed once that
day.
%Reqs %Byte Bytes Sent Requests Time
----- ----- ------------ -------- |-----
0.83 0.01 98 1 | 00
0.83 0.01 98 1 | 01
6.67 35.62 373915 8 | 02
0.83 0.38 4032 1 | 04
1.67 1.19 12484 2 | 05
0.83 0.84 8860 1 | 06
5.00 7.20 75581 6 | 07
3.33 1.23 12861 4 | 08
3.33 0.31 3237 4 | 09
5.00 7.30 76670 6 | 10
9.17 7.71 80949 11 | 11
10.83 5.10 53587 13 | 12
2.50 1.65 17281 3 | 13
0.83 0.01 98 1 | 14
17.50 20.64 216673 21 | 15
5.00 6.54 68699 6 | 16
12.50 1.79 18833 15 | 17
5.00 0.59 6149 6 | 18
0.83 0.28 2943 1 | 19
0.83 0.01 98 1 | 20
2.50 1.26 13244 3 | 21
0.83 0.01 98 1 | 22
3.33 0.31 3237 4 | 23
The table
above tracks the traffic on a web site by the hour.
The
first entry (midnight) can be read like this:
- For
the entire report period, there was only 1 hit and 98 bytes transferred
between the hours of midnight and 1:00 AM.
- 0.01
percent of the total number of bytes transferred were transferred
during this hour of day.
- 0.83
percent of the total number of hits took place during this hour of
day.
%Reqs %Byte Bytes Sent Requests Domain
----- ----- ------------ -------- |---------------------
0.83 0.84 8860 1 | au Australia
5.00 36.06 378547 6 | uk United Kingdom
14.17 16.18 169888 17 | com US Commercial
6.67 3.78 39636 8 | net Network
38.33 4.47 46961 46 | alink.net
27.50 30.49 320061 33 | unresolved
The table
above tracks from what domain the web site was hit.
The
first entry can be read like this:
- During
the report period, there was only 1 hit from and 8860 bytes transferred
to the au domain (Australia).
- 0.84
percent of the total number of bytes transferred went to Australia.
- 0.83
percent of the total number of hits came from Australia.
At the bottom
of the table, the unresolved means that the server could not determine
from which domain the hits came. It's nothing to worry about.
%Reqs %Byte Bytes Sent Requests Reversed Subdomain
----- ----- ------------ -------- |------------------------------------
27.50 30.49 320061 33 | Unresolved
0.83 0.84 8860 1 | au.edu.gu.itc
1.04 3.10 99934 10 | com.sony
0.63 2.17 69954 7 | com.caii
38.33 4.47 46961 46 | net.alink
2.50 1.65 17281 3 | net.att.dial-access.ny.new-york-007
0.83 0.35 3624 1 | net.igs.king
3.33 1.78 18731 4 | net.prodigy.nyc
5.00 36.06 378547 6 | uk.ac.hensa
This is essentially the same thing as the previous section except that
it breaks the domains down further into subdomains. So, the third line
here reports the portion of the web traffic of ".com" domains that came
from sony.com.
%Reqs %Byte Bytes Sent Requests Archive Section
----- ----- ------------ -------- |----------------------------
13.33 6.15 64512 16 | /~crusso/
19.17 0.21 2254 23 | /~crusso/blank.shtml
5.00 31.34 328968 6 | /~crusso/chris_lori.gif
5.00 0.30 3174 6 | /~crusso/chris_lori.shtml
8.33 0.70 7330 10 | /~crusso/chris_photo.shtml
8.33 11.92 125160 10 | /~crusso/chris_photo.jpg
10.00 3.09 32471 12 | /~crusso/chris_photo_sm.jpg
The final
section gives you the statistics as they apply to each file. As you can
see, blank.shtml was the most "popular" page here.
A Final Word
| IMPORTANT:
Pay special attention to the web report time period when interpreting
the information on your reports. The information and its ramifications
depend heavily on the time frame it spans.
Alink can configure your web reports to track
information in different ways and over different periods of time.
Contact Alink Support for
details. |
