What is 123LogAnalyzer and what can I do with it?
123LogAnalyzer is a powerful online Windows tool that turns your web logs into a comprehensive and easy to read analysis of your customers and prospects. 123LogAnalyzer tells you how visitors browse your web site, which pages they view and which they ignore, how long they spend on your site, and where they come from.
123LogAnalyzer's web server activity report displays the number of visitors, the number of unique IP addresses, the amount of bandwidth used, and the number of hits the site received, broken down by time increment, day of the week, and hour of the day. To learn more about the information that visitors accessed, you can see which web pages were viewed, files were downloaded, directories were accessed, and images were looked at.
Referrer information includes the domains and URL's that the visitors came from. The search engine performance report displays the search engines which referred visitors to the site, and the words and phrases that visitors searched for. 123LogAnalyzer provides geographic information about your visitors, as well as what platforms and browsers people are using to visit your site. You can even identify missing files, broken links, and other errors that visitors encountered.
With its advanced filter options, 123LogAnalyzer lets you examine only those visitors who went to specific pages, or who downloaded particular files. You can also zero in on visitors who came from particular URL's, specific countries, or who visited at certain hours of the day.
123LogAnalyzer's power lies in its ability to combine filters to extract specific information. For example, not only can you see how many visitors visited the "BuyNow" page, but you can also see what other pages these people viewed, what their browsing sequence was, how many files they downloaded, what domain they came from, and what search engine keywords they used to get to your web site. Armed with this information, your can fine-tune your web site to be a more effective sales machine.
123LogAnalyzer runs on your client Windows 95/98/NT4/2000 PC, and places no burden on your host's web server. Its intuitive interface requires absolutely no technical knowledge whatsoever. The program supports and auto-detects major web server log file formats on both Windows and UNIX platforms.
The program produces reports in real-time. On a 800Mhz PIII computer running Windows 2000, it can analyze 94,000 lines of log file data per second, or a little over 1GB of data per minute.
In the short term, 123LogAnalyzer pinpoints new opportunities to attract more visitors and customers by telling you which of your web pages are working and which aren't. In the long term, the program lets you understand shifts in visitors' browsing and buying behavior, and gives you all the information you need to give your web site a sales tune-up.

What are the System Requirement for 123LogAnalyzer?
Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP
Pentium 90mhz or better
64 MB RAM or more
10 MB hard drive space

What log file formats does 123LogAnalyzer support?
123LogAnalyzer supports major web server log file formats on both Windows and Unix platforms, such as:

• Apache common and combined log file format
• NCSA common and combined log file format
• Microsoft IIS4/IIS5 W3C extended log file format
• Sun/Netscape iPlanet log file format
• Lotus Domino web server log file format
• Oracle web server log file format
• and more...

What are your definitions of hits, visitors, unique IPs, page views?
An access of a web page or a file will generate a "Hit" on the web server. For example, if a web page contains 10 pictures, a visit on that page will generate 11 "hits" on the web server, one hit for the web page, 10 hits for the pictures.
If a visitor viewed 5 web pages on the web site, each page contain 10 pictures, the web server will record:

• 55 Hits
• 5 Page Views
• 1 visit

If the visitor left the web site and came back 30 minutes later, 123LogAnalyzer will report 2 visits. If the visitor came back within 30 minutes, 123LogAnalyzer will still report 1 visit.
A unique user (with unique IP address) is determined by the IP address. By default, a visit session is terminated when a user falls inactive for more than 30 minutes. So a unique user (with unique IP address) may visit your web site twice and get reported as two visits.

Can I check if certain IP's are abusing our site?
Yes. 123LogAnalyzer provides report of detailed IP addresses of those who accessed your web site with the most hits or with most bandwidth. So you can find out who's abusing your web site. You can even use the filter feature to narrow down the candidates. Not only can you see their IP addresses in the report, but you can also see who own those IP addresses, allowing you to contact the network administrators and report network abuses.

Can I find out who has been visiting my web site?
Yes. 123LogAnalyzer provides report of detailed IP addresses of those who accessed your web site, broken down by visit time, hits and bandwidth. You can also find out who owns specific IP address.

Is the price a one time cost or are there other fees?
The price is a one time cost only. There are no monthly or yearly charges whatsoever.

Is your online order form secure?
Yes, it is 100% secure.

How much will I pay for the technical support? Is it free?
Yes, it's completely free for all.

Is this product will be able to run in Windows 2000 server and working under IIS?
Yes, 123LogAnalyzer runs well under Windows 2000 Server with IIS system.

Does 123LogAnalyzer work with Windows XP Professional?
Yes, 123LogAnalyzer runs well under Windows XP Professional.

How do I find and configure IIS log files?
To find and configure your web log file, please following the instructions:

• 1) Open Control Panel
• 2) Open Administrative Tools
• 3) Open Internet Services Manager
• 4) Select your Web site, and click right mouse button and select "Properties"
• 5) On the Web Site section, select the Enable Logging check box.
• 6) Choose W3C Extended Log File Format as the IIS log format.
• 7) Click the Properties button.
  (The "log file directory" shows where your web server log files are stored)
• 8) Click Extended Properties. Make sure the following properties are selected: Date, Time, Client IP Address, Method, URI Stem, HTTP Status, Bytes Received, Bytes Sent, User Agent, Referrer.
• 9) Click Apply and OK.

Does 123LogAnalyzer support Lotus Domino Web server log?
Yes, 123LogAnalyzer supports Lotus Domino Web server log files?

How to add referrer information on the Lotus Domino log files?
To add referrer information in Lotus Domino Web server log files, please do the following:

• 1) Open nlnotes.exe
• 2) Select file - preferences - location preferences
• 3) Click on the Internet Protocol tab
• 4) Click on the HTTP tab
• 5) Enable Log files
• 6) Select "Extended Common" log format to use

Can I convert reports to an Excel spreadsheet or to a MS Word Format?
Yes, Microsoft Word 97 or higher version and Excel 97 or higher version can read HTML format files directly. So you can use MS Word or Excel open 123LogAnalyzer's report files. Generally, the report files are stored under "C:\Program Files\123LogAnalyzer\Report\" folder, the file names are p0.htm to p8.htm

How can I set up a filter to look for any accesses to a particular directory tree?
You can do this by using filters. For example, you want reports for a particular directory "/promotions/", Try the following steps:

• 1) Run 123LogAnalyzer, load your log file, click "Analyze" button
• 2) Click "setting" to add a filter.
• 3) Click "Add" to add a filter
• 4) Select "Visitors who accessed specific pages or files", click "next"
• 5) Enter "/promotions/", check "Hide hits of other pages or files in the report"
• 6) Click "Finish", then "OK", then "Analyze" to do the analysis.

You will get a report of those hits on your "/promotions/" directory.

Can 123LogAnalyzer EXCLUDE certain IP addresses (for example:all my staff in my office's ip addresses)?
Yes. You can do this by using IP filters:
Use "Add a filter" feature, then select "exclude" and "visitors who made purchases on your web site", then enter the IP addresses of your staff's machines you want to exclude.

How can I automatically run a report from the command line?

You can run 123LogAnalyzer from the command line. 
The format is:
      123log -logfile <logfile name>
                    [-domain <domain name>]
                    [-filter <filter filename>]
                    [-output <output directory>]
                    [-startdate <mmddyyyy>]
                    [-enddate <mmddyyyy>]
For example:
  123log -logfile c:\log\access_log.zip -domain  123loganalyzer.com -output c:\log\report\
  
or (with filter)
  123log -logfile c:\log\access_log.zip -domain  123loganalyzer.com -filter c:\log\myfilter.flt 

Can 123LogAnalyzer do reverse domain lookups to convert IP quads into domains?
Yes. In "Output Options" window, check "Enable Reverse DNS Lookup" option, you will get reports with reverse domain lookups.

Can 123LogAnalyzer do URL parameter analysis?
Yes. In "Output Options" window, un-check "Do not display text after the question mark (?) in URL" option, you will be able to do URL parameter analysis.

How can I customize 123LogAnalyzer reports?
123LogAnalyzer use template HTML files to generate the reports. These template HTML files are stored in "C:\Program Files\123LogAnalyzer" folder, the file names are "temp0.htm" to temp8.htm".
You can use your text editor or HTML editor to modify these template files to make your own customized reports. For example, add your company logo in the reports.