- From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@netimages.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 12:05:49 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
- Cc: 'http-wg' <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Paul Leach wrote: > I need data from any content providers on this list! It isn't content providers you need to ask - it is the people who write the log analysis programs. Few people roll their own. I am one of those people who have written a log analysis package for public use (<URL:http://www.netimages.com/~snowhare/utilities/>) so.... > When you do hit counting: > > Do you count HEADs and GETs as hits? I count whatever the server writers put in their log: GET, HEAD, POST - whatever. > Do you count conditional GETs that return 304 (Not modified) as hits? > (I.e., where the requester already had a copy of the page, and was just > checking to see if it was up-to-date.) Yes. I also account for them seperately to allow measuring how significant code 304's are on a particular server. I *don't* count codes 302, 400, 401, 402, 500 or 501, except in seperate categories just for those codes. -- Benjamin Franz
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