By carefully monitoring web logs, it is possible to optimize your web site in order to obtain a better ranking with the various search engines. I use the WebLog program to monitor traffic to my site, and I have experienced a compound rate of growth in excess of 38% monthly (as measured by both data transfer and total HTTP requests). The links below are to the host provided statistics, charts of growth and to the code itself, which is written in standard C++. In order to use the code, you will need to tailor it for your own purposes. Identify unique visitors, classify visits by hour of day, gather statistics for downloads of exe files. Report on visits to web pages, ranked by popularity. Quantify search engine referrals by the major engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN). Program code, documentation with screen shots is available as a “setup” file for downloading and installation.
