web-traffic

How to Monitor Genuine Page Hits

Hello, I am trying to monitor genuine page hits. Here is what my site does. I have an article directory where people can post articles. When their article is posted they are paid depending on the amount of unique users visit their pages. So page hits are important. Here is the problem I am facing. What I need: I don't want to track pa...

Free/Open Source Outgoing traffic monitor/logger that isn't a firewall?

Hey guys, I've been tasked with finding a way to log every outgoing request from one of our servers. It cannot be a proxy or firewall of any kind. It simply needs to sit in memory and watch the outgoing traffic and log what it sees. I'm going to be building metrics on this later and it needs to be free/open source. I've done some googl...

Determining Another Site's Traffic Measurements?

Hi. I have a conceptual question. I am wondering how companies such as Alexa Internet determine a given site's (not my own) overall traffic and traffic for each unique page. I would appreciate a technical response - if you were to design this feature (i am sure it is complicated but hypothetically...) how would you go about it? Tha...

Is databases always the answer in web data storage?

I haven't got any experience with databases, but intends to learn it and use it on a web project I'm planning. Though, I've got advice from a pal of mine that the use of databases should be quite more extensive than I planned. He believes in keeping almost all of the data in databases, where I find that databases are most convenient reg...

How can I determine if my Web Application will handle anticipated traffic.

Let's say I have a web site and I know how much traffic it currently attracts. Now I want to replace it with a new site and move from one hardware configuration to another. How can I go about determining whether or not my application will support the anticipated load before hand? ...

Best Website Statistics tool for Drupal

What is the best free Website statistics setup I can have for Drupal 6 on Apache? Particularities: 1. Multisite install. Might want to look over several sites. Should be able to restrict view for clients to their own site. Some hits are bypassing Drupal. Some urls are not public. Some sites have little traffic, it would be nice to b...

Web Traffic Ranking for a Sub-domain vs domain

Hi, do u know of any solution to find the web traffic ranking of a subdomain independent from the domain ...

Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection - how safe is 301 Redirect?

Hello, I have a travel related website that has been online for several years (since 2004). It currently has allot of traffic, but there are issues that prevent it from reaching full potential (no optimized and user friendly url's - it uses allot of params, bad database design which makes it difficult to expand and add new languages etc...

Change alexa tracking from artcrew.ro to www.artcrew.ro

my website has a redirect from artcrew.ro to www.artcrew.ro but for some reason, alexa gets only the inbound links from the one without www in front, on the one with www in front i have over 2000 inbound links but on the one without www i have only 10. is there any way i could make alexa see the other inbound links? that would be grate. ...

tool to record web traffic and create scriptable "objects"?

Anyone have experience with tools that can capture web traffic and create scriptable "objects" to recreate this traffic? The objects could then be used to create scripts to drive functional or load tests. For the capture itself, a lot of tools take the proxy approach (soapUI, grinder etc.), but what we need is a transparent proxy, becaus...

How can I manage single (links-resources) pages on several websites from one place(database) ?

Hello, I have an idea but I dont know how can I realize it . I have an several nighclubs related websites where I collect a lot of info about nightclubs from all over the world , I would like to offer to nightclub owners who has their websites the possibility to upload under their domains to their hosts in their subfolder some file or s...

What % of traffic is network overhead on top of HTTP/S requests

If we: 1) Count bytes/bits at the network adapter level (raw # of bits through the NIC) and, 2) Count bytes in all HTTP/S request/responses. Assuming only HTTP/S traffic is on the box, and assuming a statistically relevant amount of "typical" web traffic: I want to know about how much more traffic will be counted at the NIC level than ...

Distribute web traffic in X time.

I have different sources of web traffic and I serve ads to that traffic, now I need to code something to distribute for example X unique hits in Y time for ad with id Z. I want to be able to send X amount hits to an ad x hour, but I don't want to send all those hits in the first 10 minutes, and then wait 50 minutes to send traffic again...