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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
My josesandoval.com hosting service has a basic web log analyzer. I check it once in while to see where people are coming from and to modify certain things.
One of the most overlooked content optimization tools is your web log. If you want to use your site for any comercial purposes, you need to analyze the logs in order to customize your content.
New age marketing gurus keep saying: "work from the outside-in." Meaning, understand your customers first.
What are my customers looking for? By far, the most popular page is my
resume.
reqs: search term
----: -----------
151: software developer resume
43: resume software developer
43: developer resume
28: jose sandoval
27: xmlhttprequest java
23: java developer resume
18: j2ee developer resume
13: dbutil
13: java xmlhttprequest
13: pacman patterns
13: gwt examples
13: software developer resumes
12: gwt example
11: oracle autoincrement
10: senior software developer resume
10: xmlhttprequest example
10: software development resume
9: web developer resume
9: pac man pattern
8: difference between x60 and x60s
1880: [not listed: 1,582 search terms]
Operating Sysmtes used (there are still Amiga computers working?):
no.: reqs: OS
---: -----: --
1: 56670: Windows
: 40184: Windows 2000
: 14532: Unknown Windows
: 1048: Windows 98
: 387: Windows Me
: 308: Windows NT
: 160: Windows 95
: 49: Windows 32-bit
: 2: Windows CE
2: 17754: OS unknown
3: 2824: Unix
: 2761: Linux
: 46: BSD
: 17: SunOS
4: 2574: Macintosh
: 1732: Macintosh PowerPC
: 842: Unknown Macintosh
5: 40: Amiga
Browsers used (IE kicked Netscape's a*s--oh wait, this happened a decade ago):
reqs: browser
-----: -------
38627: MSIE
18946: Netscape
4379: Netscape (compatible)
3033: User-Agent: Mozilla
1750: FeedBurner
1470: Strategic Board Bot ( http:
1172: Bloglines
1109: msnbot
1044: Opera
972: Wells Search II
716: Feedfetcher-Google; ( http:
426: NewsGatorOnline
417: NASA Search 1.0
412: Mediapartners-Google
398: Missigua Locator 1.9
381: FeedLounge (http:
327: Java
262: WEP Search 00
247: LinkWalker
236: Googlebot-Image
3538: [not listed: 521 browsers]
Comments:
I can easily lose an hour of my life at a time reviewing my web site's logs. I find it fun to see where the visitors come from, what they're looking at and what brought them there. I hope I'm not the only one who enjoys this. I'm not crazy, right? ;)