Contents 

Introduction
Welcome to Nihuo Web Log Analyzer
Features
License Agreement
Installing & Uninstalling
System Requirements
Installing
Uninstalling
Working with the program
How does it work
User Interface
Menu Command
File Menu
Tools Menu
Help Menu
Toolbar
Project & Profile Tree List Window
Adding new project
Mode
General
Format
Servers
FTP
HTTP
Download
ODBC
File Names
Advertising
Adding new profile
General
Report
Local Folder
FTP
Email
Time Range
Tracking
Hit Filter
Visit Filter
Content
Database
Generating Reports
Date Macros
Command Line Operation
Program Settings
General
Elements
Email
File Types
Browsers
Search Engines
OS
Spider
Server Attack
Intranet
Support Log File Format
Apache/NCSA Format
IIS/W3C Extended Format
Reports
General Statistics
Activity Statistics
Daily
By Hour
By Day Of Week
By Month
Resources Accessed
URLs
Pages
Images
Downloaded Files
Video Files
Audio Files
Directories
Entry Pages
Exit Pages
Bounce Page
Stay Length
Time Taken
File Types
File Extension
Paths Through
Stolen Object
Advertising
Views and Clicks
Views
Clicks
Visitor & Demographics
Most Recent
By Stay Length
By Hits
By Bandwidth
By Authenticated Users
By Countries
By US States
By China Provinces
By Cities
Top Class A IP
Top Class B IP
Top Class C IP
IPV6
Domain
ISP
Referrers
Top Referring Sites
Top Referring URLs
Search Engines
Top Search Engines
Top Search Phrases
Top Search Keywords
Top Searched Files
Servers
Top Servers
Top Sites
Top IP:Port
Top Computers
Top Hosts
Intranet
Top Dept.
Browsers & Platforms
Top Browsers
Top Platforms
Spiders
Errors
Top Errors
404 Errors
Other Errors
Server Errors
Windows Errors
Tracked Files
Summary
Daily Activity
General Statistics
Referrers of File
Referrers of Visitors Who Accessed File
Top Parameters
Parameter Analysis
Top Previous Page
Top Next Page
Top Path Include File
Server Attack
Server Attack
Sample Report
Hit Filters
Advertising
Agent
Authenticate User
Browser
Client Host Country
Client Host Domain
Client Host IP
Cookie
Day Of Week
Entry Page
Method
OS
Referrer
Requested File
Return Code
Spider
Stolen Object
Time
URL Parameter
Virtual Domain
Visit Filters
Visit Depth
Visitor Entry Page
Visitor Exit Page
Visitor who came from specify referrer
Visitors who accessed speicified file
Visitors who accessed speicified file type
Scheduling Task
Schedule List Window
Add a New Schedule Event
General
Project & Profile
Pre-processing
Post-processing
Quick Start
Launching Nihuo Web Log Analyzer
Setting up a new website
Generating Report
Glossary
Glossary
Support
Contact us
Getting Program Updates
Purchasing
How to purchase

Nihuo Web Log Analyzer

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Glossary

Terms

Description

Average Hits per Day

Total hits divided by the count of days in the log.

Average Hits per Visitor

Total hits divided by the count of visitors.

Average Number of Hits per Day on Weekdays

The average count of hits for each day of weekdays

Average Number of Hits per Weekend

The average count of hits for each day of weekend

Average Number of Visits per Day on Weekdays

The average count of visits for each day of the week

Average Number of Visits per Weekend

The average count of visits for each day of weekend

Average Page Views per Day

Total page views divided by the count of days in the log.

Bandwidth

The size of the data transmitted from the web site.

Bounce Rate

Bounce Rate is the percentage of single-page visits . Bounce Rate is a measure of visit quality and a high Bounce Rate generally indicates that site entrance (landing) pages aren't relevant to your visitors.

Browser

The program used by visitors to access files of your web site.

Cached Requests

Web browsers, such as Netscape and Internet Explorer speed Internet access by using a local cache. This local cache is stored on local hard disk. If you try to access a file that you have previously visited, the browser will load the file from your local cache instead of the network.The Cached Requests statistic indicates the number of such hits.

Entry page

This is the first page accessed by visitors. Most of time, it is homepage but in some cases it is another particular page.

Exit Page

This is the last page accessed by visitors.

Failed Requests

The count of unsuccessful request.

Filter

The specifying ranges or types of data let you limit the log data that is analyzed and can be focused on the relevant activity.

FTP

The abbreviation of File Transfer Protocol. It's the simplest way to exchange files between computers on the Internet.

Hits

A request for any object or file on a web site. A log entry will generate a "Hit" on the web server. For example, if a web page contains 5 images, a visit on that page will generate 6 "Hits" on the web server, one hit for the web page, 5 hits for the images.

HTTP

The abbreviation of Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The way to exchange files the World Wide Web.

Internal referrer

Referrers from the your own site.

Least Active Date

The least active date.

Least Active Day of the Week

The least active day of the week. If the report period is for more than one week, the field will tell you the least active day of the week on average.

Most Active Date

The most active date.

Most Active Day of the Week

The most active day of the week. If the report period is for more than one week, the field will tell you the most active day of the week on average.

Referrer

The URL of a HTML page which directed the user to your site.

Return Code

The return status of the request which specifies whether the transfer was successful. Below are available return codes:

  • "100" ; Continue

  • "101" ; Switching Protocols

  • "200" ; OK

  • "201" ; Created

  • "202" ; Accepted

  • "203" ; Non-Authoritative Information

  • "204" ; No Content

  • "205" ; Reset Content

  • "206" ; Partial Content

  • "300" ; Multiple Choices

  • "301" ; Moved Permanently

  • "302" ; Moved Temporarily

  • "303" ; See Other

  • "304" ; Not Modified

  • "305" ; Use Proxy

  • "400" ; Bad Request

  • "401" ; Unauthorized

  • "402" ; Payment Required

  • "403" ; Forbidden

  • "404" ; Not Found

  • "405" ; Method Not Allowed

  • "406" ; Not Acceptable

  • "407" ; Proxy Authentication Required

  • "408" ; Request Time-out

  • "409" ; Conflict

  • "410" ; Gone

  • "411" ; Length Required

  • "412" ; Precondition Failed

  • "413" ; Request Entity Too Large

  • "414" ; Request-URI Too Large

  • "415" ; Unsupported Media Type

  • "500" ; Internal Server Error

  • "501" ; Not Implemented

  • "502" ; Bad Gateway

  • "503" ; Service Unavailable

  • "504" ; Gateway Time-out

  • "505" ; HTTP Version not supported

Spider

An automated program which searches the Internet. It has other names: robot and crawler. You can specify which directories and files, the spider should searched by robot.txt. You can get more detailed information about robot.txt from http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm

Stolen Object

Stolen Object is non-web-page objects on your web site, such as images, download files, which have apparently been embedded in or directly linked to by someone else's web pages. This does not mean that the image has been stolen in any legal sense, and it is possible for web browsers to give incorrect information resulting in a small number of "false positive" results. It is your responsibility to investigate and follow up on this information by exploring the referring pages.

Total Hits

The count of request sent to your website.

Total Page Views

The count of request to page file.( *.html, *,htm, *,asp, *.php...)

Visits

The count of times a user logged into the site over a specified period. A unique user is determined by the IP address. By default, a visit session is terminated when a user falls inactive for more than 30 minutes. So a unique user may visit your web site twice and get reported as two visits.

Virtual Domain

Several virtual sites can be hosted on the same server. The domain name of the site is virtual domain.