Re: [cobalt-security] traffic question

[Matthew Nuzum <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 00:53, David Lucas wrote:
    >
    >As a matter of fact, I have a simple one in place that works very well
    >for web-traffic.  In a MySQL database, 10,000 page views takes aprox 3MB
    >(we only record page views, not hits).  Periodically, we normalize this
    >so that it takes much less space than than.
    >
    >Once done, it's very easy to create some real simple reports for
    >bandwidth, page-views in a period of time, etc.
    >
    >We have it updating at approx 15 minute intervals, so that our reports
    >are near-time.  I'll bet you could knock out a solution workable for you
    >in a day or two.
    
    
    Just what does the bandwidth tell you if all you are logging is page 
    views.  Most of the bandwidth on most sites doesn't come from the html, but 
    from graphics, pdf files and the such.  I sent out a newletter for a camera 
    club, the servers email was about 30 times normal after one mailing of a 
    pdf newsletter.  The web had almost no page views.
    
My particular application isn't in place to track bandwidth, but site
activity.  I was illustrating the point that it can be done.  But
besides that, there are no images being served from this site, only
plain XML stuff.  Therefore my application should be pretty close to
accurate.

Matt Nuzum