Wusage 8.0 ManualWhat's New in Wusage 8.0? Extremely fast reverse DNS lookups! Wusage 8.0 can translate
from IP address to hostname hundreds of times per second. This feature
makes turning on reverse DNS lookups a very realistic option for
most users, and they are now enabled by default.
UPGRADING USERS: BE SURE TO SET YOUR CONNECTION SPEED
once via the optimization page, or use
the -bps command line option to specify the
speed of your connection.
When setting log file locations (the logfiles option),
* and ? wildcards are now permitted in the last component of the path.
Example: /home/www/logs/access_log*
Greatly improved progress display, for both Unix and Windows.
Multiple virtual server names are supported for each web site.
Automatic discovery of Microsoft IIS server names when Wusage
is running on the server itself. Users no longer need to specify
W3SVCx as the virtual server name to analyze; Wusage
can look up the W3SVCx name based on the domain name.
The site navigation graph reveals how your
web site is truly used. This highly informative graph provides a visual
guide to the most frequently followed paths through your web site. The
navigation graph is often surprising; it often contradicts the way
webmasters think their site is designed. This feature provides
a tremendous amount of information; we utilize the open source
graphviz and ghostscript packages
(both free, and easily installed separately) in order to create the
best available visual representation of your users' true behavior.
The graph is presented as a PDF file (Portable Document Format) to
facilitate easy printing of this large report, which is often best
appreciated when taped to a whiteboard or simply laid out on the floor.
We simply can't say enough about this great new feature.
The Documents by Directory report no longer requires hundreds
of files and subdirectories. This report is now rendered
via Javascript, allowing just a few files to contain the report data
for all subdirectory reports. This feature saves a great deal
of disk space.
Document structure is now displayed. Easily view
a list of "components," such as images and frames, that make up
each document on your web site.
Percentage of successful downloads is displayed for
every object. For pages, this percentage takes into account
whether or not the user succeeded in downloading all of the
images that make up the page. Extremely useful when you wish to
evaluate the quality of an end user's experience!
Wusage 8 analyzes eight pages simultaneously to limit the performance
impact of this great new feature; it can also be turned off if
performance becomes a concern.
"Stolen" objects report: see which of your images, audio fi
les, etc. are
being embedded in OTHER web sites.
Separate subreports for pages, images, audio, video, and so
on.
User-editable "subtypes" allow you to add more subreports and
edit the definition of existing subreports.
"Subtypes" can also be used as a better basis for
historical charts, such as the "page views" chart.
Historical charts are now accessible from the
"home page" of each report set. This change addresses a
common concern among users who had difficulty locating the
"View Chart" buttons in the 7.0 series.
CGI scripts, keywords and parameters report tells you
everything you need to know about your interactive pages.
Screen resolution and depth report tells you how
many pixels your users can see, and with how many colors. Stop wondering
what your site looks like to your customers; now you know for sure!
Improved user-identifying cookie handling code deals
gracefully with servers that log a cookie on the first request
and servers that log cookies only when they come back
from the client. Wusage no longer counts single-access "visits" as such,
because they are typically the result of identity-masking software that
skews the number of visits. Instead, the program counts these "stealthy"
accesses and scales them according to the average accesses per visit for
more typical "non-stealthy" users.
Document titles are displayed in addition to URLs.
Wusage 8 analyzes eight pages simultaneously to limit the performance
impact of this great new feature; to further improve performance, it is
done in the same pass with reverse DNS lookups, if both are enabled. It
can also be turned off if performance becomes a concern.
Additional user-definable output features ease the
localization of reports. See labelthousands,
labeldecimalpoint and
labelnavigationreport.
Important aesthetic improvements, such as the use of
"greenbar" for readability. As with 7.0, users can completely rewrite
our HTML if they prefer, using the report
macro language.
There is no longer any fixed limit on the width of each line in the
database.dat file. This permits large
numbers of entries to be added to the historical
totals option, if desired.
Efficiency and memory usage improvements.
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