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Customising Your Logfiles Customising Your Logfiles: Tutorial from: Apache Week (Articles) http://www.apacheweek.com/features/logfiles Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Data Webhouse Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Data Webhouse: Collection of articles by Richard Kimball, father of data warehousing, about making a web-data-based data warehouse. (Articles) http://www.intelligententerprise.com/ports/search_webhouse.shtml Web Site Checkup Web Site Checkup: Far from moribund, Web analytics offerings provide a wide variety of analysis, reporting capabilities. eWeek. (Articles) http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,485276,00.asp Drilling Down Drilling Down: Content focusing on relationship marketing and customer loyalty through database marketing and interactive metrics. Emphasis on ROI, LTV, RFM and their link together, with a special attention to modeling, CRM, and database marketing techniques. (Articles) http://www.jimnovo.com/ Insights - Trends: Case Study: Half.com Insights - Trends: Case Study: Half.com: How half.com handled its search for a Web Analytics solution. (Articles) http://ecommerce.internet.com/news/insights/trends/article/0,,10417_1565681,00.html Web Watchers - Computerworld Web Watchers - Computerworld: A roundup of skills, training and salary information for Web data analysts. (Articles) http://www.computerworld.com/careertopics/careers/skills/story/0,10801,73527,00.html Why Webstats are Meaningless Why Webstats are Meaningless: Outlines an argument claiming that WWW access statistics can be worse than meaningless. This document was originally written in 1995 to explain the statistics at Cranfield University. (Articles) http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/webstats/ Web Traffic Analysis Could Save Your Site Web Traffic Analysis Could Save Your Site: Kevin Ferguson reports on the problems and importance of Web traffic-analysis tools in this article for Zdnet. (Articles) http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2806111,00.html Web Traffic Analysis Reviewed Web Traffic Analysis Reviewed: A guide to log analysis and Javascript 'page-embedding' methods of Web traffic analysis. Details the methodology, pros and cons of each method. (Articles) http://www.hostpronto.com/article/4 Measuring the Success of Your Website Measuring the Success of Your Website: Compansion site to book which includes many resources on web metrics and analytics. (Articles) http://www.hurolinan.com/book/ IAB: Metrics and Methodology IAB: Metrics and Methodology: The IAB Media Measurement Task Force provides the standards the net uses for measurement. (Articles) http://www.iab.net/standards/measurement.asp New Architect: NetIQ WebTrends Reporting Center 5.0, Enterprise Edition New Architect: NetIQ WebTrends Reporting Center 5.0, Enterprise Edition: Review of WebTrends, with mention of other tools. (Articles) http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=7733/na1202l/index.html Website Publisher - Traffic Analysis Primer Website Publisher - Traffic Analysis Primer: Primer on traffic analysis covers types of tracking programs and uses for the information they provide. (Articles) http://www.websitepublisher.net/article/traffic_analysis_primer/ eCommerceBase - Traffic Analysis - Your Fast Track to ROI eCommerceBase - Traffic Analysis - Your Fast Track to ROI: 2 page article about starting traffic analysis (Articles) http://www.ecommercebase.com/article.php/792 Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Scalable Systems Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Scalable Systems: A collection of articles about the issues in making huge data warehouses of web and clickstream data. (Articles) http://www.intelligententerprise.com/ports/search_scalable.shtml Web Site Traffic Analysis Information Web Site Traffic Analysis Information: An "about.com" section to help one understand how to analyze web site log data. Lots of ads and popups. (Articles) http://webdesign.about.com/cs/traffic/ Vital Web Stats... And More Vital Web Stats... And More: Review by eWeek Labs of two products that provide high-level analysis and reporting but take very different approaches: WebTrends Reporting Center 5.0 and SiteCatalyst. (Articles) http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,493599,00.asp Webmonkey: e-business:Tracking Webmonkey: e-business:Tracking: A collection of somewhat basic tracking articles, including cookies, referers, and log tracking. Some old articles, but still relevant (Articles) http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/e-business/tracking/index.html Web Analytics Move Across the Enterprise Web Analytics Move Across the Enterprise: The web has become a critical online artery for many enterprise business activities, but the analytics applied to Web-based computing have not kept pace with the real world, multichannel environment of most companies. (Articles) http://www.infoworld.com/articles/fe/xml/01/08/20/010820feedge.xml Who's Been Visiting Your Site Who's Been Visiting Your Site: An expanded version, with hyper-links and more background information, of an article about webserver logs first published in the September 2000 issue Strategic Marketing. (Articles) http://www.wynsoft.co.uk/logs/ The Mirror Conspiracy or HTTP Logs The Mirror Conspiracy or HTTP Logs: An approach to extracting information from HTTP logs using functional programming is presented, including full source code under the GNU GPL license. (Articles) http://bachue.com/alejo/httplogs.html LOGML - Log Markup Language LOGML - Log Markup Language: Designed to describe log reports of web servers. Mining web-data that has been collected from web server logfiles, is not only useful for studying customer choices, but also helps in organizing web pages. The structure of a web site is represented as a (Articles) http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~puninj/LOGML/ Counterpane: Log Analysis Resources Counterpane: Log Analysis Resources: Info aimed at detecting intrusions, but also good general "analysis" tips. (Articles) http://www.counterpane.com/log-analysis.html Extended Log File Format Extended Log File Format: W3C's description of the Extended Log File Format. Most flexible of the log formats (Articles) http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-logfile.html Configure Web Logs in Apache Configure Web Logs in Apache: Explains improving traffic analysis by configuring Apache logs. (Articles) http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1299 Drilling Down the Customer Drilling Down the Customer: By Michele Masterson. Aiming to crack the customer code and translate the browsing and buying habits of online shoppers into e-commerce dollars, many e-tailers are turning to usage-analysis software as an alternative to traffic measurement services, such (Articles) http://ecommerce.internet.com/news/insights/trends/article/0,,3551_205891,00.html Intelligent Enterprise Magazine - Up Close And Personal Intelligent Enterprise Magazine - Up Close And Personal: A review of a collection of analysis and personalization tools. (Articles) http://www.intelligententerprise.com/000929/feat5.shtml Tracking Users: What Marketers Really Want to Know Tracking Users: What Marketers Really Want to Know: Comprehensive overview of web traffic analysis techniques, from log file analysis to real-time feeds from packet sniffing monitors. (Articles) http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1999/07/greening/ Web Analysis Tools in Transition Web Analysis Tools in Transition: With big intelligence software vendors moving into their turf, Web analytics companies must evolve or die. (Articles) http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,463196,00.asp Web Traffic Analysis Software Web Traffic Analysis Software: This paper reviews the trends in Web traffic analysis and presents marketing research. It concludes with recommended review criteria for evaluating tools within each market segment. (Articles) http://www.businesswire.com/emk/mwave3.htm There's Gold in Them There Log Files! There's Gold in Them There Log Files!: Using your Web server log files to direct your traffic building efforts and measure your success. (Articles) http://wdvl.com/Internet/Management/ Webmonkey: e-business: Tracking Tutorial Webmonkey: e-business: Tracking Tutorial: A simplistic guide to web tracking and measurement. Good beginner spot. (Articles) http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/e-business/tracking/tutorials/tutorial2.html Measuring Web Site Traffic - Computerworld Measuring Web Site Traffic - Computerworld: Describes both do-it-yourself and companies which help analyze site logs. (Articles) http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/ebusiness/story/0,10801,71989,00.html