index.html
(or index.htm) file in
the report directory with your favorite
web browser. This filename can be changed using
the indexname
configuration file option. If you are producing summary
reports, open the summary.html
(or summary.htm) file instead.
order
configuration
file option has been used to change the scale to
reflect bytes transmitted instead of accesses.
(NOTE: server logs in the older EMWAC format do not
contain information about the number of bytes transmitted.)
If only one day or week of data is present in the log, the charts will not appear, as two points are necessary to draw a line.
Beneath the graphs, links to reports for individual months can be found, or to sublistings for the days of a month or the weeks of a year. Select the report for an individual day, week or month now in order to follow the explanation.
frequency
option is set to summary
, wusage writes
a report providing details of accesses to the
server during that time period.
totals
specified in the configuration file. You can
configure many such totals.
(NOTE: server logs in the older EMWAC format do not
contain information about the number of bytes transmitted.)
Note: if your web browser does
not support tables, you will want to change the
html
option in
your configuration file to 2.0
instead
of 3.0
to produce lists instead
of tables.
order
configuration
file option. Beneath the graph is a table,
providing accesses, bytes sent, and bits per
second and bytes per second for each hour of
the day. The last two columns are especially
useful to gauge your impact on your Internet
provider's connection to the net through the day,
or to gauge the impact of particular documents
and sites if the allow
and/or allowsites
options are in use. (The last two columns are not present if
summary reports are being generated.)
NOTE: server logs in the older EMWAC format do not
contain information about the number of bytes transmitted.
order
option is used to change the ranking order
to bytes
instead. The number of
documents displayed in the table can be set
to any value, including all
, using the
top
option.
Documents can be explicitly allowed or ignored
using the allow
and ignore
options,
which are useful to exclude potentially uninteresting
documents such as inline images, or to allow only
the documents of one user.
sites
option
is present in your configuration file, wusage will
report on the sites most frequently accessing your
server. Beneath the documents table is a table of
the sites (Internet addresses) that accessed
your server most often. The table is ranked
by total accesses, unless the order
option is used to change the ranking order
to bytes
instead. The number of
sites displayed in the table can be set
to any value, including all
, using the
topsites
option.
Sites can be explicitly allowed or ignored
using the allowsites
and ignoresites
options.
This can be handy to exclude local test accesses
or allow only accesses from your own organization.
Note that major Internet providers such as AOL may
appear as a small number of IP addresses making
a large number of accesses.
IP Address: 127.0.0.1
Host Name: boutell.com
If you see only IP addresses, it is likely that
your server does not perform DNS (Domain Name
Service) resolution for each access. This is not
uncommon, because DNS can be a slow operation
which limits the speed of the web server.
If you are interested in seeing full host
names, especially to produce meaningful
domain charts as described below, you may
with to add the dns
option in your configuration file.
If you see a mixture of IP addresses and host names, you probably do not need to turn on DNS. It is normal for many addresses (perhaps 30% to 50%) to lack proper host names, and asking wusage to make a second attempt to look them up will only slow down the program.
sites
option
and the domains
option are
present in your configuration file, wusage will
report on the Internet domains most frequently accessing your
server. Internet top-level domains are political and
economic classifications such as com
(commercial, often US), edu
(educational,
often US), and ru
(Russia).
Wusage features the ability to combine several domains by continent or another criteria of your choice. This allows wusage to generate a meaningful pie chart which breaks down accesses by continent.
You can control the way domains are combined using
the domaingroups
option. You can also specify how many domains are
included in the chart using the
topdomains
option, which is often unnecessary
due to the set of domain groups for continents
included in the configuration files created by
makeconf
. You can also obtain this
list by copying the domaingroups
option
from the sample.conf file (sample.con under DOS) to your own
configuration file.
notfound
option in your configuration file, then your reports will
end with a list of the URLs that users unsuccessfully
tried to retrieve from your server. Sometimes this is
due to simple keyboarding error, or to outdated links
from other sites. At other times, you may realize that
you have accidentally removed or renamed a file, which
is a good reason to turn on this option.
proxysites
option in
your configuration file to get statistics on the sites
being accessed through the proxy server. If you are
using HTTP basic authentication or another standard
method of password-protecting some of your documents
and directories, you will be interested in the
authusers
option,
which produces statistics on the users who logged
in to a password-protected portion of your site.
This concludes a brief tour of the reports typically generated by wusage. Many additional configuration options are available, and we invite you to examine the configuration file reference.
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