Re: [Summary-Talk] Minutes to end Visit & SessionID for Visits

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pablo F. Garcia Melga wrote:
>            I use the SessionID cookie to keep track of the visits, the
> visits without the cookie how are they accounted ?

When "Use session IDs to determine visits" is turned on requests that
don't have a session ID are either all counted in one visit, or are
filtered out, depending on the setting of "Ignore requests with no
session ID".

> is there any way to
> know how many visits have the cookie and how many doesn't ?

To find that out you need to process the logs twice, once with session
ID tracking turned on and once with it turned off. However, it won't be
possible for you to determine visits without the session IDs unless you
have the visitors IP addresses in the logs.

> Also, If my cookie has an expiration of 1 month, and I want to keep
> track of the amount of single visitors per day, what values should I use
> for "Number of idle minutes to end visit" setting ?

You can't do exactly that with Summary, but if you set "Number of idle
minutes to end visit" to something like 14 or 15 hours (840 or 900), you
will get something very close to what you are looking for.

> PD : The request in my log files comes from a front-end cache I have, so
> all the request share the sames IP sources.

You should be able to reconfigure your web server to log the actual
visitor IP address. Instructions for doing this should be in the
front-end cache documentation.

Jason

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