Log File pre- processing utility for accurate web analytics:

In any organisation keen to deliver a clear and accurate view of site traffic the preparation of source data is vitally important, and if your source is logfile based results can be distorted.

• Are your Web Analytics skewed because you have a page which is used as a default home page by internal staff?
• Do you want to exclude all internal traffic from your analyses and concentrate on external visitors only?
• Do you want to exclude internal indexing traffic from your analyses?
• Do you use the SmartSource Data Collector but still want to collect statistics on spiders and robots?

Although you are able to do any or all of these using WebTrends alone there may be penalties.  You can filter out internal traffic – you can filter out specific pages – you need not include these counts in your reports.  But these pages will still have been analysed and therefore still count towards your maximum licensed page view count!

LogChopper pre-processes your base log files and removes (or retains as appropriate!) the following unwanted data

• User defined ip addresses
• URLs containing a user defined string
• WebTrends defined Spiders / Robots

LogChopper is easy to install and manage and provides an effective complement to your web analytics process to reduce costs and improve your processing time.

For more information on LogChopper:

Telephone: +44(0)20 8786 3649  
Email: info@matraxis.co.uk
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