Overview

The Next Step in Information Technology

Overview
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You already have a web site. Congratulations. Now you want to know if anyone is visiting your web site. Not just that, you want to know what countries they are from, how long they look at your pages, how often they come back, and how they found your site in the first place.
After the first few months you also want to know how much bandwidth you are using, so you will know when to upgrade your internet connection. You want to find bad links on your own pages so you can fix them and bad links into your site from outside so you can ask other people to fix them. You want to know when the server was crashed over the weekend, and what keywords people are using at the search engines to find your site.
Business is booming, you need to know which ad campaign was responsible, which pages cause people to leave, which movie file is tying up all your bandwidth, and what browsers your visitors are running. Did Bill, in marketing, ever visit the protected ad campaign site you built just for him? What link just lead six thousand visitors to your site?
Web servers write log files. The log file contains a list of every request made to your web site. Its full of hidden information and its also huge and totally boring. Summary processes that log file and extracts the answers to your questions, which you can view with any web browser.
You have a lot of questions, Summary has a lot of answers. There are almost 70 different reports to choose from. Reports can be sorted on any column, allow you to page down to the end to view all items, and many reports let you "drill down" to more detailed information. The reports are also user configurable, with a total of 80 different columns, 27 sort orders, and 14 different filtering options.
Summary can operate in three modes (or versions), the Unregistered/Demo mode, Summary, and Summary Pro. When first installed it will come up in Unregistered/Demo mode. To switch to one of the other modes you must enter a registration code which you get by registering your copy.
The Unregistered/Demo version will display the "Unregistered" message on every page and does not allow multipule sets of reports for virtual domains.
A registered copy of Summary enables an option to process logs automatically every N hours, and allows up to three sets of reports for virtual domains.
A registered copy of Summary Pro additionaly enables an option to write the first page of each report to static HTML files each time processing is done, allows you to customize the HTML page heading and footer including removing the Summary.Net logo, and allows up to 500 sets of reports for virtual domains.