This document will assist you in interpreting the statistical reports we generate for our web pages on UMinfo. If you have any comments or questions about reading statistics for your site please contact us at www@umanitoba.ca.

Definitions

Page Requests

Represents the number of web pages requested

Requests

Represents the number of requests made for all files (graphics, web pages, PDF files, etc.) on the server

Web Pages

We define a web page as any file that ends with .html, .shtml, .htm, .shtm, .pl, .php, .asp, .pdf, .cfm and a directory request with no file name

Web Site

Represents a specific directory on our server, an example is the faculties web site which lists all the various faculties

Time Period

Each report will indicate the time period it covers, indicated by the line "Analyzed requests from". You may notice that when you look at some of our reports which span a month, week or day that this line does not cover the full period that the report was for. This is because Analog determines the time period as being from the first request for the site that the report covers, to the last. For many reports it is very possible that the first request for anything from that site was not until part way through the day.

General Summary

The general summary gives us a quick breakdown on the activity of the site. Depending on the report that was requested for a site you may not see all these entries for the general summary.

Successful requests

This represents the number of requests for files the server was able to supply to the user

Successful requests for pages

This represents the number of requests for web pages the server was able to supply to the user

Failed requests

This represents the number of requests for files the server was unable to supply to the user

Redirected requests

This represents the number of requests for files the server had to redirect the user to

Distinct files requested

This represents the number of distinct files request from the server

Distinct hosts served

This represents the number of distinct computers that connected to the server

Corrupt logfile lines and Unwanted logfile entries

This represents the number of corrupt lines in the logfile and unwanted lines when generating the report. They have no baring on the site's statistics

Data transferred

This represents the amount of data transferred for the site

Averages per day
(successful requests, requests for pages, data transferred)

Based on the report's time period this number is the daily averages. If the report spans less then a day, and you notice that the average is higher then the total requests for the day, this is normal. The reason being is if a report only spans 12 hours, and there were 100 requests over that 12 hour period, the ideal average for a day would be 200 requests.

Typically you will not see daily averages in weekly or daily reports however their are custom reports where you may see these averages.

Weekly Report

Displays the total amount of requests and page requests for each week the report spans. Each week begins on a Sunday and ends on a Saturday.

Daily Summary

Displays the average amount of requests and page requests for each day of the week summed over the days in the report. This report is useful if you wish to know which day(s) of the week receive the most requests.

Hourly Summary

Displays the average amount of requests and page requests for each hour of the day summed over the days in the report. This report is useful if you wish to know which hour(s) of the day receive the most requests.

Domain Report

Displays the total page requests for each domain. Not all top level domains are expanded by default, for our purposes we expand the following domains: .umanitoba.ca, .ca, .edu, .com, .net.

Directory Report

Displays the total requests and page requests for each directory the site has. We expand the directories to their second level.