Re: [Summary-Talk] Two questions with respect to the CGI report

[Bill_Royds@xxxxxxxxx]

By usage, I meant the CGI hit count. Now the report only looks at total over the period of report. I wondered if there could be an additional report for CGI arguments that was time period based. CGI arguments are often the only real indications of actual page hits when the site uses a database for all pages. 

As well, why does ""Include query string in requests" also imply no CGI report? It is often convenient to have both. one for individual page reports, the other to see which arguments are used a lot, without regard to actual pages requested. for example, in our case language argument is on many pages so we want to look at each pages, but also summarize by language. 





On 1/28/04 2:45 PM Bill_Royds@pch.gc.ca (Bill_Royds@pch.gc.ca) wrote:

>Clients have asked whether we can break down the usage by time scales 
>such as daily, weekly, monthly as can be done with page statistics.

I am unclear on what you mean by "the usage". Several, but by no means 
all, of the reports in Summary are available with daily/weekly/monthly 
break downs. It is possible to manualy set a date range and run reports 
for a specific period, but this approach can get quite tedious if you are 
interested in more than one or two time periods.

>They have also asked whether there is a way to correlate usage by pairs 
>of arguments (in our case lang=x with arg=y) as well as individually.
>Perhaps if a way to have both the CGI report (showing counts of 
>individual arguments) and a separate page report for individual pages
>(without splitting out CGI arguments) would solve this.

You can get an effect something like what you are talking about by 
turning on "Include query string in requests". That will not work in all 
cases, it depends on how your CGI arguments are structured. In some cases 
Aliases can be used to clean up irrelevant CGI arguments, improving the 
results. But this approach disables the existing CGI Arguments report.

Jason

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