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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Summary-Talk] PDFs not counted as downloads
What gets counted as a download is configurable on the Request Types configuration page. By default, .pdf files are counted as downloads. You can check to see if this is an issue by looking on the Content:All Requests report to see if they are listed there. If they are, then there is some problem with your request type configuration. The most common problem is for .pdf files to be counted extra times. Optimized .pdf files get downloaded one page at a time when viewed with the Acrobat browser plugin, which results in extra hits. However, it is also possible for requests to be cached by a proxy server, which means they would be served directly from the cache those would not appear in your servers log files. There are many other possibilities. They could be getting filtered out, particularly if you have "Ignore known and likely robots" turned on. Downloads using a download manager, or download accelerator would be counted as robots and filtered out. It is also possible that this is happening because of some problem with your sub-report configuration. Good Luck Jason On 8/2/03 1:29 PM Jeff Whitmill (jeff@whitmill.net) wrote: >I have a site which has around 70 different PDFs offered for download. >For some reason, there are a handful which don't seem to be tracked by >Summary. They're of the same type and in the same folder with many >others which are recorded. > >I've made test downloads of everything myself - and my IP is not >blocked out - but for some reason, I'm just not getting the whole >picture. > >I have reason to suspect - though I can't be sure of this - that those >which ARE being counted are being undercounted. > >Any ideas about this? ----------------- Jason@Summary.Net ----------------- Dr. Seuss books . . . can be read and enjoyed on several levels. For example, 'One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish' can be deconstructed as a searing indictment of the narrow-minded binary counting system. -- Peter van der Linden, Expert C Programming, Deep C Secrets ------------- Go to <http://summary.net/list.html> to update subscription info.
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