-Freecounter2 how to interpret results

Good day,

Freecounter2 stats today are:

199 hits for this site, from 3 pages …

Now there is an index.html - page

and before it was called indexm.html, which I think I deleted, but
was it produced by FRW?

which FRW changed to indexm1.html - also still there;

Q1: can one just delete those other index…html - pages, whithout
any dataloss?

Q2: those file / archives, such as: 2009-08-31_01-48-50_1046.csv are
Excelfiles which I cannot open.
(ok this is no pain, as the stats are displayed earlier on the
counter-pager, isn’t that so?)

Q3: Is there a description somewhere how to read the content of the
statistical data provided? Such as:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.43 Safari/530.5

Which browser was actually used here by the user? Mozilla/5.0 = FFOX?
or Chrome or Safari/530.5

What do those numbers “530.5” tell us?

I’d also like to know, the country, the OS used, referral-url etc.

bw, Omar KN


freewaytalk mailing list
email@hidden
Update your subscriptions at:
http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

These are mostly FreeCounter questions, not Freeway per se.

On Sep 1, 2009, at 5:55 AM, Omar KN wrote:

Good day,

Freecounter2 stats today are:

199 hits for this site, from 3 pages …

Now there is an index.html - page

and before it was called indexm.html, which I think I deleted, but
was it produced by FRW?

which FRW changed to indexm1.html - also still there;

Q1: can one just delete those other index…html - pages, whithout
any dataloss?

Do you see these extra index pages in Freeway, in the Site pane? Or do
you see them only in FreeCounter? If the latter, you might want to try
making a new folder on your hard drive, setting it as the Site Folder
in the Freeway / File / Document Setup dialog (output pane), and
publishing your site again. Then use an FTP application to empty your
site folder on your server and upload again.

Q2: those file / archives, such as: 2009-08-31_01-48-50_1046.csv are
Excelfiles which I cannot open.
(ok this is no pain, as the stats are displayed earlier on the
counter-pager, isn’t that so?)

They are just text files. If Excel cannot open them directly, you can
try opening them while Excel is running, using File / Open. Failing
that, any text editor will do, even TextEdit, which comes for free
with Mac OS X.

Q3: Is there a description somewhere how to read the content of the
statistical data provided? Such as:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.43 Safari/530.5

Which browser was actually used here by the user? Mozilla/5.0 =
FFOX? or Chrome or Safari/530.5

Most browsers start their “user agent string” (which is what this is
called) with the word Mozilla. Very few of them really are Mozilla.
The last part of the UA string will usually have the actual “marketing
name” of the browser.

What do those numbers “530.5” tell us?

Version of the browser being used.

I’d also like to know, the country, the OS used, referral-url etc.

The OS is part of the user-agent string, and you can see each one by
clicking on the browser name in the list of hits for a page. We don’t
track the referral URL or the country at this time. You might want to
look at Google Analytics, which digs quite a bit deeper than
FreeCounter.

Walter

bw, Omar KN


freewaytalk mailing list
email@hidden
Update your subscriptions at:
http://freewaytalk.net/person/options


freewaytalk mailing list
email@hidden
Update your subscriptions at:
http://freewaytalk.net/person/options