Re: [Summary-Talk] Summary & Alexa

[Jason Linhart <summary@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are a couple of things you can do to verify that Summary is
producing plausible results. The key thing is to examine the Log File
report and make sure that Summary is reading all of the log files that
you would expect it to be reading and that there aren't unusually high
numbers of parse errors or filtered log entries or log entries not in
any report.

It is also a good idea to look at the Time reports to make sure that the
current results are in line with the historical behavior of your site.
Any problems with the server should be very obvious in the Time reports
if you have a reasonably long period of old logs reported on.

Alexa is know to be fairly far off on occasion, so I would expect that
that is really the issue.

Jason


Webit wrote:
> but if Alexa says today 100,000 Alexa toolbar users hit my site
> shouldn't that show up in summary's report of hits
> summary is only reporting 1000 hits/day
> 
> I am trying to figure out if its summary or my server can't handle
> that load

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