Web Stats: Analog

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Analog is a popular and powerful freeware website analysis program. You can easily set up Analog reports through the Account Control Center, or if you prefer, you can manually set up and customize Analog using the command line. Refer to http://analog.gsp.com/ for complete Analog documentation.

The following instructions will tell you how to set up and configure Analog via the Account Control Center (ACC).

Activating Analog

You can easily activate Analog using our Account Control Center (ACC):

1. Log in to the Account Control Center
2. Select Site Statistics
3. Select Manage Web Statistics Reports
4. Select Analog from the drop-down menu (to the right of the Log Analysis Tool heading)
5. Click Change Tool
6. Click Tool Settings
7. If desired, modify the analog settings
8. Click Update Settings

To learn about what each of the Analog settings means, read our Analog settings descriptions section below.

Once you activate Analog, each night around 12 AM US Eastern time, Analog will generate usage reports for your account. Be sure to activate your Analog nightly reports so that you can view your Analog reports (which are based on your nightly web logs). You can activate your nightly reports when you click the "Reports" button in the website Statistics section of the Account Control Center. If your nightly reports are active, you can also view your Analog reports using the "Report URL" on this page as well.

For information on how to interpret your Analog reports, visit this Analog documentation.

Using the Tool Settings Page

The Tool Settings page gives you the option of changing the information displayed on your Analog reports. You can name the report by using the Report Title field. If you only have one domain name on your Web hosting account, enter that domain name (example.com) in the Report URL field. If you have more than one domain name on your account, leave the "Report URL" field blank.

You may also designate a specific directory on your Pair Networks server where these reports will be saved in the Report Output Directory field. By default, the directory will be WWW_REPORTS. Please note that it is NOT necessary to change the Report Title, Report URL, and Report Output Directory fields to produce Analog reports.

The other options are easily changed by selecting the desired setting from
the drop-down menus or by using text fields. These Analog settings are
described in more detail below.

Analog Setting Descriptions

Analog allows you to update your settings via the Account Control Center (ACC) or via a command line program such as SSH. For information on manually configuring Analog, visit this Analog documentation.

You can find your Analog configuration file at the path /usr/home/USERNAME/log_config/FILENAME where you replace "USERNAME" with your pair Networks username and "FILENAME" is replaced with the configuration file's filename. The default report file name is "www." If you split the reports for a domain name out into separate reports, you can name the file whatever you want (even though it defaults to the domain name).

For example, the Analog config file for example.com would be:

/usr/home/USERNAME/log_config/ANALOG_example.com.cfg

Descriptions of the settings that can be modified or enabled and disabled
via the Account Control Center (ACC) are listed below: