OpenEuphoria

1. RE: Euphoria web usage analysis

• Posted by Kenneth Riviere <joker at riviere.ws> Feb 15, 2002
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Well, I just went back and checked the support forum messages again, and 
there are recommendations of a couple of programs.  One, webtrends, is 
highly recommended but costs hundreds and even thousands of dollars 
depending on options.  

Analog (www.analog.cx) is also available.  The author provides it free, 
apparently as a labor of love, either as c source code or as binaries 
for certain platforms.  It can be paired up with reportmagic 
(www.reportmagic.org), also free, to get more graphical reports.  This 
is also available as source or binary, but the source is perl, so I 
expect the binary is compiled perl which really only saves the time of 
the compilation portion of perl's processing as I understand it.

In any event they are not reporting readily available alternatives, and 
the basic analog package claims to be very fast (something like 10gb of 
log data processed in 20 minutes on a 266mhz box, if I remember the 
stats right), so a euphoria report analyzer might not be as tempting as 
I had thought it would be.  It is still an interesting thought.

-jkr
Kenneth Riviere wrote:
> 
> Robert Craig wrote:
> > Ray Smith writes:
> > > With the processing power of pc's these days is speed a real issue?
> > > Except for specialized applications like action games, 3d modelling,
> > > simulations etc speed is almost a non issue.
> > 
> > I just finished crunching 17 Mb of log data from RapidEuphoria.com
> > The log records each page hit, each .zip downloaded, etc, along with
> > the referring URL, IP address etc. etc.
> > 
> > My Euphoria program took 1 minute to give me lots of interesting
> > highly customized information. Would I want to wait half an hour 
> > for Python or Perl? (My ISP has a free log analyzer. It provides lots of 
> > 
> > 
> > data, but little useful information that I need to evaluate sources of 
> > advertising.)
> > 
> > Speed will always be valuable.
> > 
> Rob, are you using an Apache web server?  My web host provides some 
> statistics, but people want more.  There was some discussion on the 
> support forum about downloading the log file and doing analysis on their 
> 
> PC.  I haven't noticed anyone mentioning that they have tools to do this 
> 
> on the PC.  If you have Euphoria code which can analyze an Apache web 
> server log file then I would be happy both to use it and to promote it 
> on my web host as an efficient and effective way to do this analysis.  
> It might generate some more interest in Euphoria.
> 
> Do you have such a program that you would be willing to put in the 
> archive?  (A quick search did not find such a program based on a search 
> for "apache log" in the archive.)
> 
> -J. Kenneth Riviere
> 
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