Chris McDonough wrote:
Regarding the analysis of resulting data I would leverage existing analysis tools. If you make the External method write the log data
in
'combined Apache http log format' you will be able to use wusage
(it's
shareware) which does what you want.
Really? It analyzes traffic patterns with session ids in them? I didn't think the combined format had a "slot" for session ids. I think it definitely needs to be custom.
Is there a free http log analysis tool which can do user behaviour
tracking?
There may be something along with mod_usertrack in Apache, I'm not sure.
wusage indeed does use a custom format if you want usertracking, the last column gets the unique cookie value. And it indeed uses mod_usertrack of apache. I think a good and simple solution would be to use apache as a frontend and indeed let mod_usertrack do the work. Write the cookie value into apaches logfiles (this is simple with a custom log) and analyse that. I guess in this case the analysis itself might be the real work, so why bother with the NIH syndrom. cheers, oliver