Oh, how much do you obsess over your server logs?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by mopacfan, Jan 26, 2005.

?

How often do you look at your sites log files?

  1. What are log files?

    4 vote(s)
    6.3%

  2. Monthly or semi-regularly

    10 vote(s)
    15.6%

  3. Weekly, I like to know what's going on

    10 vote(s)
    15.6%

  4. Daily, I gotta get my fix

    31 vote(s)
    48.4%

  5. Hourly, I'm a serious control freak

    7 vote(s)
    10.9%

  6. I live in my log files

    2 vote(s)
    3.1%
0
Page 1 of 2
  1. #1
    After reading some of the posts around here, I'd really like to know... How often do you look at your log files? Are you obsessed or do they really even matter to you?
     
    mopacfan, Jan 26, 2005 IP
  2. flawebworks

    flawebworks Tech Services

    Messages:
    991
    Likes Received:
    36
    Best Answers:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    78
    #2
    Constantly. I believe it's called sitting on them.
     
    flawebworks, Jan 26, 2005 IP
  3. symetrix

    symetrix Peon

    Messages:
    44
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #3
    I have a machine that does nothing but scroll logs from my webservers. :)
     
    symetrix, Jan 26, 2005 IP
  4. david_sakh

    david_sakh Peon

    Messages:
    1,225
    Likes Received:
    29
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #4
    A few times a day. I have much time on my hands in between classes with my laptop.
     
    david_sakh, Jan 26, 2005 IP
  5. my3cents

    my3cents Peon

    Messages:
    332
    Likes Received:
    12
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #5
    I schedule my cron job to update the stats once a day at midnight. This helps control my habit of checking too much... ;-)
     
    my3cents, Jan 26, 2005 IP
  6. john_loch

    john_loch Rodent Slayer

    Messages:
    1,294
    Likes Received:
    66
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    138
    #6
    Too often - though not logs unless I have to..
    Anyway, I usually look at remote stats 3 times a day (aggregates) :)
     
    john_loch, Jan 26, 2005 IP
  7. fryman

    fryman Kiss my rep

    Messages:
    9,604
    Likes Received:
    777
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    370
    #7
    Every 30 minutes
    I love finding new keywords bringing people to my site
     
    fryman, Jan 27, 2005 IP
  8. dchoe

    dchoe Active Member

    Messages:
    64
    Likes Received:
    1
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    93
    #8
    every now and then... i do like seeing all the random keywords used to get to my site
     
    dchoe, Jan 27, 2005 IP
  9. wizardofx

    wizardofx Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    572
    Likes Received:
    10
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    140
    #9
    I check them weekly. I am much more obsessive about my daily keyword tracker results. I got the habit when every day they would improve, now I am hooked even though there is more bad news than good news every day.
     
    wizardofx, Feb 3, 2005 IP
  10. clasione

    clasione Notable Member

    Messages:
    2,362
    Likes Received:
    158
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    228
    #10
    I check every few days, but the real problem is that I wish I could check every hour... :D

    It's becomming a real problem......

    Maybe we should start a support group called

    StatsAnonymous

    It's avaiable: statsanonymous.com :D
     
    clasione, Feb 4, 2005 IP
  11. plmerlin

    plmerlin Guest

    Messages:
    490
    Likes Received:
    25
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    118
    #11
    I look twice a day for keywords and to see what's going on...

    Also, I like to look at origines of visitors... Kenya, Angola, Ukraine :)
     
    plmerlin, Feb 4, 2005 IP
  12. Googles76

    Googles76 Peon

    Messages:
    664
    Likes Received:
    26
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #12
    I haven't looked at logs before, but now that you mention it, I do like 3 times a day :D Always cool to see what is going on.
     
    Googles76, Feb 4, 2005 IP
  13. craige

    craige Peon

    Messages:
    90
    Likes Received:
    1
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #13
    Every day. My web host has the option of sending stat reports. Everyday I get an email from my web host with the previous day stats - search engine visits, top user agents, top kewords, top referring sites etc.
     
    craige, Feb 5, 2005 IP
  14. NMS

    NMS Peon

    Messages:
    8
    Likes Received:
    0
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #14
    I like to check them several times a day. I am especially interested in finding out what new keywords were used to find my site or what new sites are linking to it.
     
    NMS, Feb 9, 2005 IP
  15. Starbug

    Starbug Guest

    Messages:
    89
    Likes Received:
    2
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #15
    Lots and lots and lots.. oh, and lots :D

    It's fun, aswell as informative!! :)
     
    Starbug, Feb 9, 2005 IP
  16. Haichi

    Haichi Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    293
    Likes Received:
    6
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    128
    #16
    i just want to know what is the best stat out there to use... one with a nice interface and graphics... I am addicted to my logs and my site is not even over 800 uniques per day
     
    Haichi, Feb 9, 2005 IP
  17. Liminal

    Liminal Peon

    Messages:
    1,279
    Likes Received:
    63
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #17
    another log addict here. primarily doing it trying to detect and block spam bots
     
    Liminal, Feb 9, 2005 IP
  18. dakar

    dakar Active Member

    Messages:
    203
    Likes Received:
    2
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    83
    #18
    I guess an having a shell window all the time with a tail -f access.log as the last command issued is the sign of an obsession? How about if it's for each webserver?

    For stats I still like good old webalizer, knock the dust off and give it a whirl... I let a cron job update it hourly now...
     
    dakar, Feb 9, 2005 IP
  19. exam

    exam Peon

    Messages:
    2,434
    Likes Received:
    120
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #19
    I normally check stats once a day, and often look into the log files too.
     
    exam, Feb 9, 2005 IP
  20. Gutsy

    Gutsy Peon

    Messages:
    21
    Likes Received:
    1
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #20
    I am in a habit of checking my stats once in a day usually at night. Give me a pretty good idea about important keywords, visit length and from where the visitors came from. Quite motivating sometimes :)
     
    Gutsy, Feb 10, 2005 IP
Page 1 of 2