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Site statistics are a useful tool to identify your site’s traffic. The statistics will also tell you which terms and queries people used in their search engines to reach your site.
Statistics are generated on the first of the month for the prior month. Statistics folders are labeled in the YYYY-MM format for the month that they were run (e.g. the folder named 2009-07 was run in July 2009 for the June 2009 statistics).
Site statistics are available (on-campus only) at: http://www.brandeis.edu/stats
How do I get statistics for my site?
Send an email to web@brandeis.edu, indicating your site and we will set it up for you!
Thanks for the stats report, but what does it mean?
We use Analog, a standard stats package used by nearly one-third of all webservers. You can learn how to interpret these reports at the Analog info page.
Do number of requests = number of visitors?
No. Read the documentation on how the Web works at Analog’s site, which states:
[I]t’s important not to slip from “this page has received 30,000 requests” to “30,000 people have read this page.” In some sense these problems are not really new to the Web—they are present just as much in print media too. For example, you only know how many magazines you’ve sold, not how many people have read them. In print media we have learned to live with these issues, using the data which are available, and it would be better if we did this on the Web too.
