 Access
Logs
Xenoplanet provides detailed, daily
statistics which summarize your site activity. These statistics are
available from the account control panel.
Statistics cruncher
The statistics cruncher is extremely fast and configurable, and will
display the following information for a given range of dates:
- Summary of files accessed
- Summary of page referrals
- Summary of clients accessing your site
- Summary of the browsers used to access
your site
- Daily totals
- Hourly breakdown of hits
- Hourly breakdown of page hits
- Hourly breakdown of Kbytes transferred
- Error information
Raw log files
Each account has access to its raw log files, including access and error
logs. These logs can be downloaded via FTP and are compatible with 3rd-party
log analyzers, including WebTrends.
Raw logs are kept for a minimum of 7 days. To download these logs, connect
to your /logs directory with FTP. Files
are named accessYYYYMMDD.log.gz. The
latest version of WinZip can uncompress
these files.
The raw error log (consisting of the last 7 days) is found at /logs/error.log.
Stats FAQ
When do my stats become available?
Site statistics are usually available by 4 a.m. (pacific time), the
following day. This time may vary.
What is the timezone that my statistics show?
Xenoplanet is in the Pacific Time Zone (GMT -08:00). All logs, statistics,
and timestamps are marked with Pacific Time.
What is the difference between a "page hit" and
a "hit"?
"Page hits", as reported by our statistics program, count files which
end in .htm, .html, or .shtml.
"Hits" includes all files, including images, multimedia, HTML pages,
etc.
What is a "Refer" or "Reference"?
A "referral" is a page from which a person came to your site. Most people
come to your site by linking from another site. You'll often see referrals
of search engines, or sites which have a link to your own. By default
the stats program excludes referals from your own site.
How To Do Pattern Matching
The pattern matching used by the statistics program uses Regular Expression
syntax. Regular Expressions allow you to do powerful and complex matchings.
If you are not familiar with Regular Expression syntax, then the following
will give you a brief introduction.
| - means OR
& - means AND
Note, if you are looking for a specific file name, make sure you are
escaping the "." character, for example if you want to just include
"index.html" use the following Regular Expression
index\.html
A Few Examples :
- \.jpg|\.gif will match any string
containing the strings ".jpg" or ".gif"
- index\.html|index\.shtml will
match any string containing the strings "index.html" or "index.shtml"
- \.gif&image will match any
string containing the strings ".gif" and "image"
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Miscellaneous
