in reply to Threading together "sessions" from browser logs

i'm by no means an expert on this subject, but i wonder why you're not logging a session id (that is, if such a thing exists for your app.)

perhaps you can clarify your definition of "session" a bit.

~Particle *accelerates*

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Re: Re: Threading together "sessions" from browser logs
by dws (Chancellor) on Sep 20, 2002 at 18:31 UTC
    A "session" is the sequence of pages that a given user visits during a browser session. I'm interested in looking at the paths people take through the site, so that I can answer some basic usability questions based on what percentage of users do certain things. Since a "browser session" is hard to quantify, I've arbitrarily decided that a new session starts when N minutes have elapsed since the last page fetch.

    Much of the site is static, leaving no easy way to track a session id. And the site is hosted, cutting off the opportunity of doing nifty things with Apache. I have to rely on server logs.

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