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When I write about foo.com in my blog, I'm always curious to know when people from that firm are reading the entry.

 

I know, via awstats, I can see whether someone from foo.com has accessed my site... but how can I tell:

- What pages someone from foo.com accessed

- When these page were accessed

- How many times these pages were accessed by someone from foo.com?

 

I know I can get cool stats like this from third party hosted services, like VisitorVille, but that seems like a pricey and heavy solution for what I'd think would be a pretty simple set of queries.

 

Any ideas?

Posted

Hi,

 

The information is all in the raw log file on the server. AWstats (on the server) does not give you the full information you are after here, but you can download the raw log file, and then use one of the many log file analysers to provide the information you want.

 

If you know the IP address of foo.com you can even just search for all entries in the raw log file for that IP address, and you would then know exactly what pages were visited, how long for, when etc.

Posted
Ah, good point, thanks!  Do you know of an easy way to resolve IP addresses, or visa versa?  I don't know what address foo.com resolves to.

 

The American registry of internet numbers has a nice whois page that will tell you who owns an IP number

 

http://www.arin.net/whois/index.html

 

and the whois source will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about a domain

 

http://www.whois.sc/

 

You can also track visitors nicely using the last visitors function in Cpanel

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