Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Tracking your users in the access logs (25 Nov 2003) Server logs are there to be used and contain real information about real users on your site. There is no more reliable source for information on user patterns, though there are many tools that are more flexible. My one misgiving is that the log analysis tools out there today are so consistently mediocre that they will frustrate many attempts to study the data more deeply. I hope that these ideas will help provide the impetus for these features to be added to existing log analysis tools. Article URL: http://www.evolt.org/article/Tracking_your_users_in_the_access_logs/18/60232/index.html Read 83 more articles from evolt sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: When Cash Is Only Skin Deep This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy