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Logfiles 101: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Audience: All
Technical Level: High
Most of us waver back and forth between complete reliance on any inflated statistic our logfile analyzers will generate (when writing annual reports to the Dean) and total dismissal of all web statistics as meaningless (when talking to our peers). But logfile analysis is useful in many settings, and can be augmented with other tools to provide a useful picture of what’s going on on your web site, what you should change, and why. This session will discuss common analytic tools (AWStats, Analog, and Google Metrics) and what they’re good for, along with some simple techniques for augmenting what statistics can tell you.
Thomas Bruce
Director, Legal Information Institute
Cornell Law School
trb2 at cornell dot edu
John Heywood
UberGeek
American University Washington College of Law
heywood at american dot edu
