IP Account WWW Access Statistics Help Page

GIF IMAGES OF YOUR WWW USAGE STATISTICS

A program from MIT called `gwstat' has made it possible for Network Information Services to make graphical representations of your WWW account usage statistics. Eight reports, 4 html files and 4 gif images, will make up your monthly statistics for the previous month. All this data will be placed into your nisdata directory, a subdirectory of your www directory. Here is an example of the services you will receive:

http://www.indiana.edu/~mgrwww/nisdata/stats-page.html

The log stat reports mentioned above, will be automatically placed into your account. Your images and reports will be viewable on the web at the following URLs:

http://www.indiana.edu/~{your_account}/nisdata/total-usage.html

This is an html report for all your files on the server.

http://www.indiana.edu/~{your_account}/nisdata/page-usage.html

This is an html report for all your non-image files on the server.

http://www.indiana.edu/~{your_account}/nisdata/total-by-domain.html

This is a summary of accesses by client domain for all your files. For more information on the defined domains, please see our domains help page.

http://www.indiana.edu/~{your_account}/nisdata/pages-by-domain.html

This is a summary of accesses by client domain for all your non-image files. For more information on the defined domains, please see our domains help page.

http://www.indiana.edu/~{your_account}/nisdata/daily-usage.gif

This is an image file representing your daily accesses of all your files in graphical form.

http://www.indiana.edu/~{your_account}/nisdata/daily-by-pages.gif

This is an image file representing your daily accesses of all your non-image files in graphical form.

http://www.indiana.edu/~{your_account}/nisdata/total-by-file.gif

This is an image file representing your top accessed files in graphical form.

http://www.indiana.edu/~{your_account}/nisdata/total-by-page.gif

This is an image file representing your top accessed non-image files in graphical form.

After the end of every month, the new images and reports will be copied in to your account to a file name cooresponding to the month represented in that data. The old files will remain, but the links will be changed to point to the new data. For example, here is how your www/nisdata directory will appear on April 1st, 1997 (`9703' refers to Mar, 1997):

total-usage.html and corresponding 9703-total-usage.html
page-usage.html and corresponding 9703-page-usage.html
total-by-domain.html and corresponding 9703-total-by-domain.html
pages-by-domain.html and corresponding 9703-pages-by-domain.html
daily-usage.gif and corresponding 9703-daily-usage.gif
daily-by-page.gif and corresponding 9703-daily-by-page.gif
total-by-file.gif and corresponding 9703-total-by-file.gif
total-by-page.gif and corresponding 9703-total-by-page.gif
All you old monthly files will remain in the directory as well.

[ Note: `all-daily-usage.gif' is not actually a gif file, it is a ]
[ link to a file which has a name similar to `9703file-usage.gif' ]

How to Hide Your NISDATA Files

If you do not wish the files to be available via the World Wide Web you will have to remove the privileges from the nisdata subdirectory with this command from the Unix prompt:

chmod 700 ~/www/nisdata

Using and Maintaining Old Files

Files that are placed in your subdirectory are yours to keep and manage and may be used for historical analysis. The central WWW server backups are kept for one month, and we are unable to retrieve any files or statistics before that point. In order to conserve disk space, you should delete old files if they are no longer of any use, or move them via FTP to a computer local to you.

Last updated:21 Ferruary 1997
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mgrwww/stats_page/
Comments: webmaster@indiana.edu
Web Publishing Info: IUB Web Masters Page
Copyright 1997, The Trustees of Indiana University