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11 Dec 09

The Limitations of Server Log Files for Usability Analysis - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

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Analytics Network Server UI WebMetrics LogFileAnalysis *****

There may never be a connection between the user’s computer and the site’s server in order to fulfill the user’s request to see the page
the most popular pages of the site are likely to be cached more often, thus creating more problems in getting accurate log data
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- ONLY things that log files can report are regarding requests to the server
- if the user’s network or ISP has a cached copy of your page, then there is no request.
- The IP address recorded in the log file is the IP address of the host machine that the user was connected to when they accessed the site
- How Long Did the User View the Page(s)
- it isn’t counting the time he spent re-reading a page he has already seen
- The traffic analysis tool then makes an assumption that the gap between new requests (because the other pages were in cache) is the time that was spent on the previous page. This can make it seem like users are spending longer on the pages than they really are, and not actually counting the pages on which they actually spent their time.
- Server log analysis tools report the last page the user has requested during their visit as their "exit point
- Visit Timeout
- Most analysis tools’; timeouts are set, by default, to 20 or 30 minutes
- The server logs will show that first request as the user's entry point,

17 Oct 09

Going live, servers and DNS for a Newfangled Site

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BackEnd Server Infrastructure

10 Oct 09

rapache

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Server Apache R Python Library

26 Sep 09

High Scalability

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Infrastructure Server Scaling Architecture

03 Apr 09

Google's Server (Ars Technica article)

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Server News Infrastructure

30 Mar 09

MAMP: Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP

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Infrastructure MySQL PHP Apache Server DBMS

26 Feb 09

Log file sample explained

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Server DataProcessing Explanation Network LogFileAnalysis

Web Server Log File Analysis

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Server Network Tutorial *****

24 Nov 08

Setup PHP + MySQL + Apache in Leopard

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Installation MySQL Infrastructure Server HowTo DBMS

02 Jul 08

Log Files - Apache HTTP Server

Apache's explanation of log server data format

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