Welcome to Summary

You already have a web site. Congratulations. Now you want to know if anyone is visiting your web site. Not just that, you want to know what countries they are from, how long they look at your pages, how often they come back, and how they found your site in the first place.

After the first few months you may also want to know how much bandwidth you are using, so you will know when to upgrade your internet connection. You will want to find bad links on your own pages so you can fix them and trace bad links into your site from the outside so you can ask other people to fix them. You want to know when the server was down over the weekend, and what keywords people are using at the search engines to find your site.

Business is booming, you need to know which ad campaign was responsible, which pages cause people to leave, which movie file is tying up all your bandwidth, and what browsers your visitors are running. Did Bill, in marketing, ever visit the protected ad campaign site you built just for him? What link just brought six thousand new visitors to your site?

You have a lot of questions, Summary has a lot of answers. There are over 200 different reports to choose from. Reports can be sorted on a column simply by clicking on the column header. Many reports let you "drill down" to obtain more detailed information. The reports are also user configurable, with almost 150 different columns, 58 sort orders, and 53 different filtering options.

Web servers write log files. Every time a user visits your site, the user 'requests' information. The log file contains a list of every request made to your web server. It is full of hidden information, and it is also huge and totally boring. Summary processes that log file and extracts the data into meaningful information.

The best way to get to know Summary's capabilities is to try it out. A good place to start is the Overview report. You can follow links from there to various more detailed reports. If you don't understand what something means click on the question marks which will take you to an explanation.

Please explore and enjoy.