[thelist] Question about Page Requests

Dan Leonard dan at canopyroad.com
Thu Aug 12 08:11:38 CDT 2004


Hi all,

I have a client who's using Analog 5.1 for her logfile analyzer and
has some questions about the report output. When talking about daily
Web site statistics, I think I understand (after doing some Googling!)
the difference between the report columns "Number of Requests" and
"Number of Page Requests." 'Number of requests' would be the html
pages, plus any accompanying graphics and linked javascript/css files
that are served up by the server? 'Number of page requests' would be
just the html files served up? Am I correct so far?

I thought I also understood the issue of browser caching and how that
affects statistics. But I'm stumped! What I don't understand is this:
for August 5th, her output report says the number of requests is 7,
yet the number of page requests is 0. Can anyone give me an
example/scenario of how this would happen? Am I right in thinking that
in order for the total requests to be greater than 0, the page
requests would have to at least be 1?

Any clarification would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Dan




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