Re: reluctant farewell
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001, staf wagemakers wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:15:59PM -0800, Mark Koopman wrote:
> > better yet, why use a log file analyzer at all? they can't truly measure web
> > surfer behaviour
> > anyways, only web server behaviour.
>
> customers ask for it :)
EXACTLY. People love that stuff. Plus the people are companies who
do the marketing and crap like that need to show the higher-ups that
they are doing something. Something like Webtrends gives them pretty
graphs and charts and numbers and makes everyone happy. I personally
think it's nifty seeing the browsers and OS's people are using. Then
again I often look at the X-Mailer or User-Agent headers to see what
MUA's people are using. And I have seen Webalizer, but people want
Webtrends. Real-time on-the-fly reporting and all. That's it.
Honestly, it IS a really cool thing, though really expensive. But
they want it and I install it. You can see an example at
<http://www.webtrends.com/SampleReports/ERS_report/index.html>. And
if you look at the browser stats, the usage of IE is even higher and
Netscape much lower.
Incidentally, yesterday I got a call at work from a sales person at
Webtrends asking how my trial is going with the product. I am sure
she regretted calling once she hung up. I really let her have it
about how proprietary it was towards on distribution of Linux. She
sounded really dejected by the end of the conversation. I basically
said that because of that I wouldn't use the product if I weren't told
to install it. And other stuff.
-Ken
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