How to use Wusage in Simple Mode.

To run Wusage you must have the Wusage program and your http log files.
Contact your ISP, Host, IT department or webmaster and ask for your http log file location or for the files to be put on the server so you can run Wusage against them to produce the example stats you see on our website.

• 1. Get Wusage from our website and download Wusage onto your hard drive. Here's how....
  • Go to our download page to get the version of Wusage we offer for your operating system.
  • Click on the appropriate link for your operating system.
  • A dialog box comes up that says do you want to run from this location or save this to disk.
    
  • Windows Users: Choose Run this from its location and allow Wusage to install on your hard drive.
    You will be prompted through questions about accepting the terms of our licensing agreement. Click the appropriate responses for your situation.
  • Unix Users: Choose Save this file to disk and then pick the folder where you would like to save Wusage in and click ok.
    Next unix users will need to use the commands found here to unpack and untar the program and then use the ./wusage command to launch the program. The program will give you a url to put in the url field of your browser. Now you are ready to use Wusage. The Wusage interface will prompt you and take you through some short questions. Please read questions and answer appropriately.
• 2. Overview: How to get statistics from Wusage:
  • Wusage produces the statistical info you see in these example results by analyzing the information in your http traffic log files.
  • You get these log files by accessing your server via ftp or downloading the log files locally to your hard drive. If your server still has your log files then use a client like FTP to provide Wusage the location of your log files. Read on.
  • I access my server via FTP. I have a user name and password set up already as I upload my html documents via FTP.
  • You or your webmaster most likely does this also. You need to know how to access the server via FTP, what the user name and password is for your account and in what folder your log files are kept. Now that you have this info we can go onto the next step.
• 3. Questions?
  • Now you should have Wusage installed.
  • If you are having issues installing Wusage after reading this through, please email us.
• 4. Choose from the Administration page the Mode you want.
  • For this example please pick Simple Mode.
• 5. Now you will tell Wusage where your log files are located.
  • You have two choices: remote access via FTP or local access using your directory structure provided through the Wusage interface.
  • To configure Wusage to use FTP to get your logs, you will need to fill in the FTP information in the fields next to FTP site information. Specifically, server, username and password.
  • You can also download the files locally onto your harddrive and run Wusage manually. This is more intrusive on your time and is not the preferred method.
    Make a choice and fill in the appropriate details for your choice.
    1. Analyzing log files remotely(ftp) via Wusage. To use an FTP client you will need to know the following:
       _____________________ FTP Site
       _____________________ FTP User
       _____________________ FTP Password
       _____________________ FTP Directory or File
       Enter the name of the FTP site where your log files are kept, as well as the correct user name and password. Also enter the correct directory, if you know this information already. You will then be able to browse the FTP site and select the folder or file with your http log data.
    2. Analyzing log files locally requires you to look at your directory structure within the Wusage interface and navigate through your directory structure until you find the appropriate file or folder containing your http logs.
    3. Local log folder/files should be kept in the same folder where copy of Wusage resides. I would name the log folder logs and remember that you will need to regularly rotate in new log files and rotate out old log files, archiving them at the location of your choice. Use the directory structure provided to locate your log files on your hard drive. This is why FTP remote analyzation is less intrusive on your time.
• 6.Update Statistics
  • After you have done this the program interface will take you to the Control Page and there will be an update statistics button. You must click on update statistics at least one time before you will be able to view any of your web site statistics. The first run will take a few minutes, or more if you have a large site or a backlog of log files. Then when the analyzation is complete click view statistics now. Your calendar of reports may appear behind the Wusage GUI so minimize the Wusage GUI and then you will be able to navigate through the calendar and the reports.
• 7. What information should I look for?
  • If you are looking at what is the most accurate click thru number, there are page views, top referring sites, top referring URLs and look at the Top Visitor Sites link in the navigation frame. Also you'll see them in "referring URLs by document", certainly. For the greatest accuracy you could look into the "clickthrough.cgi" section of our manual, which requires more effort but doesn't rely on the browser's willingness to supply a referring URL.
  • To be sure you are getting all the info you need I suggest that you go look at the "documents by directory" subreport of your most recent week, and see if it includes everything you're concerned about.
  • If your "subwebs" are subdirectories of a single web site they are probably all represented already.