Re: [Summary-Talk] it's very nearly what I want

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/17/04 11:53 AM Mac Jordan (mac.jordan@gmail.com) wrote:

>a) I don't like the way you can't easily drill down to visits, or
>pages, or whatever, per month.  Or have I missed something?

There are several things you might want here, many of which Summary does. 
First there is the Monthly report which shows overall totals for each 
month. Then there are the Monthly Pages, Monthly Images, Monthly 
Downloads, Monthly Others, Monthly Requests, Monthly Referring Domains, 
and Monthly Search Phrases reports which show numbers for each of the 
most recent 13 months for each item of the corresponding type. You can 
see these reports by clicking on the Monthly tab at the top of the 
corresponding report.

Other reports are not so easy to see monthly, you would have to set a 
date range and reprocess your logs for each month you were interested in. 
While that is possible it isn't practical in most situations. I will add 
your vote to see all reports monthly to our wish list.

>b) do you *have* to keep the logs in the application folder?  I
>really, really don't want to do that, because we generate them
>somewhere else, and I don't want to duplicate them.

No. If the logs are located on the same machine Summary is running on you 
can create a shortcut (Windows), Alias (Mac), or symbolic link (Linux) to 
the place the logs are actually located and put it in Summary's Logs 
folder.

>incidentally, I'm testing on OSX, but we would be deploying on Linux -
>I take it that there's no functionality differences x-platform?

There are a few small differences, but almost everything is exactly the 
same. Not all platforms have SFTP support for log downloading (Linux and 
OSX Command Line do). On some platforms Summary limits individual log 
files to 2 Gig (Windows, Macintosh) while others limit them to 4 Gig 
(Linux, OSX Command Line). The speed of DNS lookups vary (Macintosh is 
worst, OSX Command Line and Linux are best, Windows is in between). And 
of course the install procedures are slightly different.

Jason

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