Measuring Website Performance: Part 3
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Shreves, Ric
Water and Stone
2004

Abstract:

Your web server archives the information needed to generate these numbers and many others. The raw data is stored on the server in what is known as a log file. The statistics referenced above are best accumulated through the use of a log analysis program to convert your hard-to-read server log files into an understandable format.