FW: [Zope] click-stream collection and analysis with Zope??

[Chris McDonough]

I couldn't tell from the docs page on mod_usertrack how it integrated 
with the already-written access logs... it appears to write another log. 
  If som, how do regular analysis tools analyze it?

Trevor Toenjes wrote:
> * Trevor Toenjes <zope@toenjes.com> [010907 15:30]:
> 
>>Thanks,
>>I will try this in the next week , and post my success back to the board.
>>I always hear about the need to "clear the logs", which I dont want to do.
>>I want to keep a complete history together for analysis.  Does this method
>>allow for that?
>>
> 
> It depends on the analysis tool you use.  Since access logs are large,
> you should compress and rotate them.  But the actual analysis tools
> themselves usually store historical data in a binary format.  For a
> commericial one, try WebTrends, or a Free one, Webalyser.  Can anyone
> else recommend anything else?
> 
> seb
> 
> 
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: seb bacon [mailto:seb@jamkit.com]
>>>I use mod_usertrack in apache, combined with standard log analysis
>>>tools.  There's no need to reinvent all this stuff.  mod_usertrack
>>>does a pretty good job of guaranteeing unique ids.  To integrate it
>>>with zope, you can run reports on a cron job and view the HTML output
>>>as a LocalFS view.  Don't forget to make sure apache is proxying your
>>>requests, or your cookies won't get set.
>>>
>>* Trevor Toenjes <zope@toenjes.com> [010906 20:22]:
>>
>>>My latest newbie challenge...!
>>>Has anyone implemented an extensive user tracking system with Zope?
>>>
> 
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