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WebAlizer vs WebLog Expert

fdwilk1 posted this at 03:50 — 23rd January 2003.

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I purchased and use WebLog Expert to analyze my data logs. My web host furnishes WebAlizer for on-line stats. Both products produce approximately the same numbers for hits and bandwidth, but the numbers vary greatly for Pages and Visits.

WebAlizer has pages = 4971 and visits = 1312.
WebLog Expert has pages = 3309 and visits = 2378.

Can anyone shed some light on why there would by such differences? Is there an affordable, well-accepted method of measuring that is accepted by those making advertisement placement decisions?

Thanks,

Doug Wilkinson

zollet posted this at 13:03 — 23rd January 2003.

He has: 1,016 posts

Joined: May 2002

Maybe WebLog doesn't count / and/or .php/.asp/.cgi/etc as pages. They all count differently, the only thing these scripts have in common is the number of hits which is basically number of lines in the log file.

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