Who is visiting your Website

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Who is visiting your Website?

• The Chemistry Experience
• Karl Harrison

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Who is visiting your Website?

• History
• WebLogs
• WebTrends

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1993-1995

• University of Bristol
• MacHTTP
• Mac LC

• University of Oxford
• MacHTTP
• Mac 9500

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1996

• Department of Chemistry Website
• www.chem.ox.ac.uk
• Mac IIci
• WebStar

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1997

• Moved to a PC
• Pentium 133MHz
• Windows NT
• MS IIS 3

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1998-1999
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2000 MS IIS 4
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2001

• Windows 2000 Server
• Dual Pentium 3 700Mhz Machine
• MS IIS 5

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Feb 2001 Start of VLE
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2002 Current Design
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2003
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2004

• Dell 2600 Server
• Dual Xeon 2.4Ghz
• Raid 5
• MS IIS 6

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Web logs

• Software Microsoft Internet Information Server
  4.0
• Version 1.0
• Date 1997-12-15 090500
• Fields time c-ip cs-username s-ip cs-method
  cs-uri-stem cs-uri-query sc-status sc-bytes
  time-taken cs(User-Agent) cs(Referer)
• 090500 163.1.186.2 - 163.1.186.199 GET
  /frontpage.gif - 200 51785 5287
  Mozilla/4.03(MacintoshIPPC)
  http//163.1.186.199/
• Web Logs generating at the rate of 45Mb per day
  and I hold 22Gb on the server

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Processing Logs

• - 1997 WebStats on Mac
• - 1998 Analogue on Windows NT
• Then Moved to Crystal Reports for better visual
  reports
• Hit 2Gb database memory max. Very slow
• Moved to WebTrends in 2000
• Version 6
• Now using Version 8

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WebTrends 8

• Hits, Page Views, Visits
• Activity (e.g. Peak Traffic Times)
• Content Groups
• Advertising Views/Clicks
• Search Engines Referrers
• Technical (e.g. Bandwidth Transfers)
• Site Diagnostics (e.g. Errors)
• Browsers (e.g. Browser Types)
• Wireless (e.g. Top Devices)
• Visitors (e.g. New vs. Returning Visitors)
• Pages Files (e.g. Top Pages)
• Navigation/Path Analysis
• Visitor Geography