I've just been performing some analysis of our Apache web logs.  For our
main server, which has 9 WAA packages attached to two instances of WAA, we
have a data transfer (send to client) of 35GB over the last 11 months.

I've produced graphs to show growth/usage and they show a steady climb in
the number of users and (unsurprisingly) the number of pages/resources
requested. We hit a peak in January of around 16,000 hits a day and a mean
growth of around 170% over the 11 months.  Whilst the total hits per day is
now less than the Januray high, the average per day is much higher than
before Christmas.

Growth (usage) is expected to accelerate over the next 6 months, and since
all the business being conducted on the web is new business, I guess this
is pretty good news.

I'm not a huge fan of statistics (when they are produced by someone else
), but used well they can give a very clear picture of what is going on.
Now I have to compare the Apache logs against the WebStats produced from
the WAA logs, to highlight areas for optimisation and to help prioritise
which areas get scheduled code-maintanence first...

Regards,

Phil Ide

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