There are many ways to gather statistics about your web site's performance. Most
servers gather their own statistics through a facility in IIS 4.0, but the log files
produced are somewhat cryptic and require some technical acumen to get anything meaningful
out of them.
Web Site Traffic Analyzer from Intelliquis
can help bring some clarity and understanding to the numbers. It's very easy to
use. You simply tell it the name of a log file to open and it quickly generates a
high-level summary of information. For novices, you'll need access to your web server
statistics, and probably need to arrange with your Internet access provider for FTP
ability to copy these logfiles down from your web server to your local PC.
Once the logfiles are loaded, you can drill down through the categories to see lower
levels of information, and in many categories you can switch from a textual tabular view
to a colorful chart.
There are many tools available to perform similar levels of analysis, but
most are much more expensive, whether they are a one-time purchase or based upon a monthly
usage fee. Most are also much harder to set-up because they require major server
installations and additional Javascript to be installed into each and every web page.
If you want an inexpensive, easy-to-use way to start tracking your users
and to make sense of the logfiles being generated on your server, Web Site Traffic
Analyzer is your tool. Demos are available for download by clicking here.
Web Site Traffic Analyzer
