http-analyze

[Tae]

hey friendly futurequest peoples.

i was just wondering, does http-analyze count each SSI call as an individual pageview?[nbsp][nbsp]or does it count the entire page call as a pageview?[nbsp][nbsp]you see.. on my site, i have index.shtml, which calls top.html, menu.html, and home2.shtml, all into its own little page.[nbsp][nbsp]this counts as 1 page the viewer is seeing.[nbsp][nbsp]my question is, does it count just index.shtml, or does it count all 4 files?

recently, ever since i opened my site, i've been getting a whole lot of pageviews.. in fact, more pageviews than i've ever gotten in my entire life![nbsp][nbsp]so i'm a little worried that the stats might be inaccurate because of my SSI.

[Dan Kaplan]

As far as I can tell, that would only count as one pageview.[nbsp][nbsp]However, it might count as multiple files or hits (don't know if those count just images and pages, or includes also).

Drink it up![nbsp][nbsp]:)

[Tae]

how are you sure that that would count as just 1 pageview?

i'm a lot more sure of the hits not inculding the SSI, because in my "Top URLs" section, it gives me
/day/ as one of my top hits, but doesn't give me:

/day/top.html
/day/menu.html
/day/index.shtml
/day/home2.shtml

at all.
[This message has been edited by Tae (edited 04-11-00@10:37 am)]

[Dan Kaplan]

I'm roughly 100% sure because I also track my stats with another program and it is a near identical match with the server stats in terms of page views.[nbsp][nbsp]The other stats I have much less confidence in...

Dan

[Dan Kaplan]

Tae, yes, I use .shtml/SSI and a 3rd party program (AXS).

Julie, the server stats track .shtml just fine.[nbsp][nbsp]I imagine it depends on server configuration, as I believe Justin and/or Terra said it also recognizes PHP extensions.

I'm not sure about text files.[nbsp][nbsp]Would that depend if it's called directly from the browser or if it's included in another page via SSI?[nbsp][nbsp]If it's the latter, then that makes no sense from a page view standpoint, as my stats would be off by a factor of three...

Dual track

[Justin]

If I'm not mistaken, if you include a .shtml file within a .shtml file, that would be two pageviews - remember, an SSI include involves a call to Apache. PHP includes don't work this way, as PHP opens the file within the file system rather than calling Apache...

Hope this helps.

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Justin Nelson
FutureQuest (http://www.FutureQuest.net/index.php) Support

[Tae]

thanks dan.

i'm assuming - that you're calling html/shtml files with SSI and that you are using a 3rd party program for your stats tracking.. if this is correct, then i'll rest assured that i can sell 250,000 impressions :)

[jak]

to throw out more stats ...

check out: http://www.netstore.de/Supply/http-analyze/results.html

this explains in more detail about the reporting on http-analyze.

reading their docs on "page views" it almost sounds that only files with .html or .text are actually counted as individual pages. so this may mean .shtml is ignored?

"hits" seems to include all the images on that page, i.e. page.html has 3 images then http-analyze counts 4 hits.

hope this clarifies rather than cornfuses. ;)

julie
jak graphic solutions, etc.