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"Top Websites" does not equal 'most frequentl... - 13.Dec.2005 6:08:55 PM

bishless

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When my boss and I review reports, we're infuriated by the "Top Websites" charts. Microsoft's description:

"The following websites were most frequently requested by clients during the report period. The most popular websites are listed first."

I call BS. The chart produced clearly displays "Traffic[MB]" as the criteria being used. So you end up w/ a chart that looks like this:

SITE         REQUESTS   BYTES IN ...
blah.com   2          56.2MB ...
yes.net      934        7.9MB ...
no.com       97         5.1MB ...

What the crap? We don't care if two developers went and downloaded some SDKs from blah.com. We want to know which sites are being frequented! How do we get reports to sort these charts by REQUESTS?

What's most irritating is that this discrepancy is made in two places: Summary - Top Websites and Web Usage - Top Websites both claim to list "most frequently requested" and then sort by the most data downloaded.

WORTHLESS!

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RE: "Top Websites" does not equal 'most frequ... - 15.Dec.2005 4:43:50 AM

jmercer54

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bishless... try "custom configure reports" on the right-side of the reports screen. You can specify how each catagory is sorted; it defaults to bytes downloaded, but you can get it by the number of requests, unique users, etc.

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