Re: reluctant farewell
excuse me, did you say WebTrends is 'real-time'
that it most certainly isn't. take a site like yahoo for example. i've heard
their estimates of nearly 500 million page views a day. webtrends is not
even close to real-time in this situation, they'd kill their machines, and don't
even consider NFS, that'd be dog-slow.
Ken Weingold wrote:
> 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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