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Analysing logs for MP3 podcast statistics


ChrisFlynn

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Hi everyone,

Slightly off-topic, but I know this is a great forum :)

 

I've just recently started a podcast, and am trying to get some useful stats on the mp3 downloads (don't care about xml views, so feedburner is not use to me ;)).

 

 

On my hosting package I have got three stats applications. However:

 

Webalizer hits

episode 1 - 914

episode 2 - 451

 

Analog requests

episode 1 - 914

episode 2 - 451

 

*AwStats views*

episode 1- 696

episode 2- 239

 

 

My questions:

 

1) Why the difference between AwStats and the others? Is AwStats filtering out duplicate users or something?

 

2) What's the best way for me to count file downloads? (So I can see how many people are hearing my podcast). Ideally, I want to see the number of completed *.mp3 downloads for each file by day. I have access to my raw logs so what are the best simple apps? (Windows desktop or PHP)

I don't care about referrers, times, agents etc... something like this would be great:

20080424: Ep1.mp3 = 40, Ep2.mp3 = 23

20080425: Ep1.mp3 = 23, Ep2.mp3 = 50

...

 

 

2a) I only want to count complete downloads. If I get:

70.107.132.22 - - [17/Apr/2008:03:23:19 +0100] "GET /Ep1.mp3 HTTP/1.1" 200 44628 "-" "iTunes/7.6.2 (Windows; N)"

but I know my file is actually 3143523 bytes, I want to discount anything else (such as 44628). Is this possible using any apps, or even worthwhile? How does a resume work - is that 2 log entries, or just one?

 

 

 

Any recommendations? :) I know it's not an exact science, but it'd be good to get close...

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