I'd agree, except that then product authors will have to force users to always use the graphic type that was originally chosen. i.e. if you use a product that has an image called "logo.jpg", and you want to use an image that is a gif or png, then you'd have to name a gif file "logo.jpg". I don't want to know what problems that might cause. I completely agree that it makes looking at WebTrends much more painful than it should be. -Paul Milos Prudek wrote:
It seems that best practice for images is to keep the .gif, .jpg and .png extensions in filenames.
Many web log analyzers such as wusage use Apache logs (or Z2.log) to generate statistics. Log analyzers try to report images and documents separately. Since the Apache or Z2.log does not contain "meta type", the analyzers must rely on the file extension.
If the file has no extension, the log analyzer treat is as a directory.
So if your homepage has 10 extension-less images, your web log report will say that:
Most popular eleven directories were: / /img1 /img2
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