[Summary-Talk] Bug: Static report HREF in Overview is to Summary Application

["Michelle A. Hoyle" <michelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

System Info:
Mac OS X (Tiger) 10.4.2
17" G4 PowerBook, 1-GHz "Al"
Summary 2.54 SP, Summary 2.62 SP


Problem Summary:
Clickable link for more information on a spiking referring domain in
"Overview" page (static HTML report version) is for dynamic data from
the Summary application, not to a static HTML page.


Discussion:
We process web site logs for a number of virtual domains on a monthly
basis and produce a set of static HTML report pages for people using
Summary.  At least as early as Summary 2.54 and as late as the recent
2.62 release, Summary shows some  extra information beneath the
primary "Overview" (overview.html) graph for the time period at the
top of the page and the start of the visit/hits info.  This
information includes visit spikes, e.g.:

>* On 08/23/05 there was a spike in visits, about 59 extra visits or 
>58% above average. Unique hosts (+51/+66%) also spiked. Possibly 
>related to referring domain 'versiontracker.com' (+9/+112%) based on 
>visits.


In such information, the referrer domain names are clickable, even in
the static HTML report version.  So, in the above example, the URL in
the HREF for "versiontracker.com" is
"/report/_Selected+Referrers.RI7.IP.IE.HN.$O.NL?M=2&N=versiontracker.com"


Not surprisingly, this link doesn't work, because there's no such
directory as /report/ in the static HTML directory for the virtual
domain -- it's something that would work when generating the page
directly on the fly from the Summary application and would be
correctly handled by Summary's built-in web server engine.

I should have reported this before, as I've known about it for ages,
but I thought someone else would have noticed it by now.  Sorry!

Michelle
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