Re: [Summary-Talk] Adding "Visits" To Directories Report

[Christopher Rooney <crooney@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jason,

In a spirit of public debate and growing my own understanding of
these kinds of issues, I'm not sure I agree entirely with your
example, "For example a request for /a/b/c/d/e/f/g/index.html should
count as a visit to /a, /a/b, /a/b/c, /a/b/c/d, /a/b/c/d/e,
/a/b/c/d/e/f, and /a/b/c/d/e/f/g."

In Michelle's case, her client wants to see how many visits have hit
a given "popular" directory. Any number of those visits could have
hit /a/b/c/d/e/f/g/index.html via a link from, for example, the home
page. In such instance, the visit has gone directly to the
destination directory, effectively without visiting any of the
directories above it. Is it accurate, then, to count that as a visit
to each of those parent directories?

Thanks.
CJR


At 11:45 AM -0500 12/4/07, Jason Linhart wrote:
>Summary does not currently support visit counting on directories. I will
>add your request to our wish list for possible inclusion in a future
>version.
>
>The only way you can currently approximate this feature is to create a
>sub-report for each directory you are interested in tracking. Then
>visits in that sub-report will show visits to the sub-directory. Of
>course this is fairly memory intensive, and not practical if you have a
>large number of directories you want to track.
>
>Visit counting is a rather time and memory intensive feature. Tracking
>visits on directories is more complex than tracking visits on files
>because each request can contain several directories. For example a
>request for /a/b/c/d/e/f/g/index.html should count as a visit to /a,
>/a/b, /a/b/c, /a/b/c/d, /a/b/c/d/e, /a/b/c/d/e/f, and /a/b/c/d/e/f/g.
>Because visit tracking is difficult to begin with and directory support
>would only add to that complexity, adding visit tracking for directories
>would have a noticeable impact on performance. It isn't out of the
>question, but we have been hesitant to implement it because of the
>performance hit.
>
>Jason
>
>Michelle A. Hoyle wrote:
>>  Problem Summary:
>>  Visits not available as a column option in Directory reports.
>
>--
>Jason@xxxxxxxxxxx
>--
>Dr. Seuss books . . . can be read and enjoyed on several levels. For
>example, 'One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish' can be deconstructed
>as a searing indictment of the narrow-minded binary counting system.
>    -- Peter van der Linden, Expert C Programming, Deep C Secrets
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