Thread: tracking customers

Haven't set up my site yet, but I have a question on how Voda Host handles tracking of activity on our site. Under the Web/FTP Stats, you list 'Awstats', referrer and raw access logs - can you explain how they work? I am hoping to be able to capture data on how people are driven to our site and where they come from.

A full log analysis enables AWStats to show you the following information:
* Number of visits, and number of unique visitors,
* Visits duration and last visits,
* Authenticated users, and last authenticated visits,
* Days of week and rush hours (pages, hits, KB for each hour and day of week),
* Domains/countries of hosts visitors (pages, hits, KB, 269 domains/countries detected, GeoIp detection),
* Hosts list, last visits and unresolved IP addresses list,
* Most viewed, entry and exit pages,
* Files type,
* Web compression statistics (for mod_gzip or mod_deflate),
* OS used (pages, hits, KB for each OS, 35 OS detected),
* Browsers used (pages, hits, KB for each browser, each version (Web, Wap, Media browsers: 97 browsers, more than 450 if using browsers_phone.pm library file),
* Visits of robots (319 robots detected),
* Worms attacks (5 worm's families),
* Search engines, keyphrases and keywords used to find your site (The 115 most famous search engines are detected like yahoo, google, altavista, etc...),
* HTTP errors (Page Not Found with last referrer, ...),
* Other personalized reports based on url, url parameters, referer field for miscellanous/marketing purpose,
* Number of times your site is "added to favourites bookmarks".
* Screen size (need to add some HTML tags in index page).
* Ratio of Browsers with support of: Java, Flash, RealG2 reader, Quicktime reader, WMA reader, PDF reader (need to add some HTML tags in index page).
* Cluster report for load balanced servers ratio.

Thanks! Sounds like that should cover what I am wanting. Aside from adding HTML tags for the screen size, is there anything else I need to do on the design side to have these available to me?

Originally Posted by Treenerd

Thanks! Sounds like that should cover what I am wanting. Aside from adding HTML tags for the screen size, is there anything else I need to do on the design side to have these available to me?

Very useful questions. would like to know that too

adding these html tags for screen size would be allowing you to view stats with respect to viewers computers viewing your website .. it doesn't have anything to do with the design side of blue voda ..

blue voda does not adjust the pages according to viewers screen size .. so you need to build accordingly and with what is the majority of viewers .. today that is anywhere from '800 wide to '1000 wide .. that means, build your blue voda page within that page width .. the length doesn't matter so much .. but building wider than this will cause sideways scroll for viewers, and you dont want that .. also note - build your page from the top left of the website builder, right click on your page, choose properties and tick center in browser .. you can also apply a background color from the color choices for background on the properties box for the page as well .. applying anything other than color for the page background will give you a tile effect appearance, some images are okay with this, many many are not .. so best to use a solid color .. this will then fill in the sides of the page for viewers viewing in larger screen resolutions ..