By using the Site Statistics option of your control panel, you can view an in depth analysis of your website's usage. The statistics in this option are generated by the http-analyze program available from Rent-A-Guru. For complete documentation of this software, visit http://www.netstore.de/Supply/http-analyze/. What follows here is a brief description of some of the software's more useful features.

To view your site statistics, enter the Site Statistics option on your control panel. The "WWW Access Statistics" page will appear.

From this main page there are a number of options available to you:

When you click on Statistics for the last 12 months the first thing to happen is a smaller navigation window will open.

Using the links in this window, you are able to view the statistical breakdown of every month of that year. Meanwhile, on the main page of your browser, you will find a display of the usage statistics for the current year.

The following usage statistics are displayed on this page:

Hits: The number of times your site is given a request for information from a web browser. (Note: a web page with two images would generate three “hits”, one for each of the images, and one for the page itself.)

Files: The number of times a web browser requests a file and the server on which your site resides delivers that file.

Pageviews: The number of times a web browser requests a text or html file. This gives a better indication of the actual amount of documents requested from your site.

Sessions: The number of unique hosts accessing the server during a given period of time.

KB Sent: The total amount of data sent during the summary period as reported by the server.

You can find more detailed information about these statistics by clicking on the http-analyze 2.4 link found in the bottom left corner of the page.

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When you click on a monthly breakdown from the smaller navigation window, many more statistical options become available to you at the month level. Each link in this window will display a different page of statistics for that topic in the main browser window. For example, the "by Day" link will display usage statistics for that month broken down on a daily basis.

Notes:

On many of the pages, you are given the option to view the page with the "Frames Version". This version will work with most modern browsers as long as frames have been enabled. In the Frames Version, a main control frame will appear on the left side of the window. From here you can navigate between statistics by year and by month much the same as described above.

There is also "3D Model Version" for viewing statistics. This option requires special VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) software to be installed on your computer before proceeding. For more information see, the Http-Analyze web site.

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