I have a question on each of the traffic analysis tools.

On Webalizer, until March it used to provide a breakdown of countries in a pie chart and table at the end, but now it shows everything as country "Unresolved/Unknown". It also used to decode the top 30 of the X total sites, but now it's only showing numerical IP addresses. Is that something that can be fixed so that it works as it used to, and if so, by whom?

On Analog, it has always shown numerical addresses (and it would be nice to have decoded URLs) but it's also always showing cumulative statistics, like Failed Referrers from the very first day that my site became operational, and Request Reports also from day one, including for some directories that I have since removed. I'd like to know if there is some way to cut off some of the old data, say, to have it provide cumulative stats from 1/1/04 only.

Joe

I'm having the same problem.  I need to know how many people come to my site from other countries and we used to get this.  I've been told to download the raw stats but NO body knows how to do this or how to install the program.

My pie charts are OK now because evidently they're again running the job that translates IP addresses to identify countries.

However, I now have an issue between the numbers reported by Analog vs. those reported by Webalizer. The numbers used to be more or less the same so I didn't pay much attention, but in June and July I noticed much bigger differences which made me wonder what's going on.

For June, Analog shows 13790 requests and 242 #pages, and for July, 22805 requests and 262 #pages. I'm not sure I understand the difference between Files and Hits in Webalizer, vs. "requests" for Analog, but the former's numbers aren't too far off from Analog (13740 files/13892 hits in June and 22716/22882 in July). I presume those differences can be attributed to report cut-off times or something similar and in any case, the worst difference is less than 1%. However, on Pages Webalizer reports 299 for June (almost 24% difference), and 355 for July (almost 36% difference).

I'd like to know what may account for the difference in page counts. Are Pages in Webalizer and #pages in Analog a count of requests from non-robots, and does each system have a different list of known robots? As background, most of my pages are PHP generated and they all include a common CSS file, and in early July I added a graphic logo, which helps explain the large increase in Files/Hits, but a much smaller increase in Page requests.