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Wusage 8.0 Manual
users Option
To reach this option in the configuration file editor,
follow these steps:
1. Edit Configuration
2. Configure Reports...
3. Top Users Report (Requires Cookies)...
4. Chart Top Users (Determined By Cookies)
If you prefer to manually edit your configuration files,
use the following syntax for this option:
Example
users on
users nopie
users off
Description
VERY IMPORTANT:
The users report is only useful
if your server log contains "cookies" which uniquely identify
users. See the server configuration
tips section of the manual for more information.
If turned on, the Chart Top Users (Determined By Cookies) (users) option indicates
that wusage should output information about
users accessing the server with browsers that accept cookies. If the
Chart Top Users (Determined By Cookies) (users) option does not appear or is
set to off,
no cookie-related information
will be included in reports. If the users
option is set to nopie, no pie chart
will be generated. If your site is accessed by a
wide variety of users, you probably will want to
turn off the pie chart, since no one user will
represent a large enough portion of traffic to
qualify for a slice. This option is
useful to determine which cookie-accepting users accessed
the server most often. The Chart Top Users (Determined By Cookies) (users) option
defaults to off.
Many users do not accept cookies. Because of this, many
web servers will log millions of "one-shot" cookies that never appear again.
In order to better account for such users, Wusage 8.0 P14 and above do not
include single-use cookies in the users report. However, Wusage 8.0 P14
and above do offer a scaled unique visitors figure, which is equal to
the number of cookies used at least twice, plus the total number of accesses
made by users not accepting cookies divided by the average
number of accesses made by users who did accept cookies. The resulting
figure is a highly useful projection of true unique visitors. We recommend
logging user-identifying cookies in order to take advantage of this feature.
See also Cookie Name That Identifies Visitors (Leave Blank to Use All Cookies) (singlecookie), How Many Users (Determined By Cookies)? (topusers),
Top Users Report (Requires Cookies): Alphabetize Report (usersalpha), ^options(usersbytes),
Include Users Report (usersemail), Top Users Report (Requires Cookies): Sort by (usersorder),
and Top Users Report (Requires Cookies): Show Visits (usersvisits).
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