Yesterday three different people came to me asking what type and how many browsers are our “users” using to access our content. Since our products load on about 50 – 80 million pages a day we have a pretty good sample size. And a hell of a lot of log files to collect and analyze. […]
Year: 2013
Improving Web Services (Part II)
Last year I wrote about how we improved web server performance with some fairly small changes, and about how I keep an eye on these metrics with reports I create analyzing my web server logs with Microsoft’s LogParser. This is a follow-up to those. Recently we did an upgrade to our platform. One of the “improvements” was […]
Using Log Parser to Extract User Agents From Web Log Files
I’ve been meaning to write a follow-up (or two…) to my I LOVE LogParser post from a few months ago. The time has finally arrived. Every day I collect and analyze (at least at a high level) somewhere around 1/2 a billion (yes, billion) web server log lines. And about that many more from a […]