Real hit count with proxy

[Stephen Potter]

The request for a webpage and an item in a webpage are syntacticly the  
same.  Your best bet would be to analyze the log files, perhaps  
analyzing the different file types requested.

Steve


On Mar 5, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Ahmet wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to count web hits of users. With using proxy it is seems  
> to
> be easy (I tried squid, tiny, privoxy).
> But it is obvious that the hits in the logs not purely the hits that
> users wanted to do.
> For example when a user goes to cnn.com, cnn.com calls other ad  
> pages or
> non-ad pages. But because that think happens at users browser it is  
> seen
> as an user hit in logs. So for real hit count an analysis must be made
> on logs.
> Do you know any tool, proxy that can help in such analysis?
>
> Second choice is writing own tool that can be parsing the logs and  
> doing
> an analysis on referer field. But in that case (assuming cnn.com
> referred pages as non hit) users clicking on a link on the page
> (cnn.com) can not be distinguished.
> To further investigate the issue I listened (by ethereal) outgoing
> packets for a usual user behavior (clicking on a link) and  web site
> called web pages. They all seem to have same headers and similar  
> header
> values in request packets. So I stucked and could not found any  
> possible
> piece of evidence to track and distinguish the behaviours.
> Is there a known theoretical or practical way for distinguishing this
> behaviours?
>
> Not: I know this mailing list is not the most appropriate list to ask
> this question. But any help will be gratefull.
>
> AB
>
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