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Hi,

We have reorganized our sites from the multi-domain structure to a “sub-site” structure.

1. EARLIER we had (multidomain) :

UK.mysite.com

FR.mysite.com

DE.mysite.com

ES.mysite.com

This is monitored with 4 Awstats configuration files. And the settings:

HostAliases="uk.mysite.com"

HostAliases="fr.mysite.com"

HostAliases="fr.mysite.com"

HostAliases="fr.mysite.com"

2. TODAY we have (subdirectories):

Mysite.com/pays/FR

Mysite.com/pays/UK

Mysite.com/pays/DE

Mysite.com/pays/ES

And the extraction in Awstats is made  through:

HostAliases="mysite.com"

 OnlyFiles="REGEX[pays\\/fr]"

OnlyFiles="REGEX[pays\\/uk]"

OnlyFiles="REGEX[pays\\/de]"

OnlyFiles="REGEX[pays\\/es]"

This seems to work somewhat. The trends are OK. But the there is significant divergence in the results. Comparing the row numbers, it looks we have lost a lot of visitors/pages/hits.

With the new method:

-         The number of visitors have decreased significantly (> 50%)

-         The number of clicks has decreased (From 25 hits/visit to 3 hits/visit)

-         Number of pages decreased slightly.

Any idea about the difference. I suppose it could be that there was some spill-over between the sites. A visitor coming from UK.mysite.com to FR.mysite.com might have been  counted as a different user in both statistics.

Is the  OnlyFiles="REGEX[pays\\/fr]"  valid approach or is there any other method to use in the current layout to get statistics more comparable to previous ones?

Thanks in advance for any comment. 

Bonjour Jean-Luc,

Thanks for all these ideas. I think you are completely right.

In fact we also had a main site with the domain name mysite.com, that had the largest number of visitors. And the uk.mysite.com, fr.mysite.com etc were small sites sharing many image and css files with the main site.  

So, I can understand that the number of hits and pages have dramatically decreased.

Concerning the impact of  referrers on visits in Awstats:

An external referrer is considered in Awstats a visitor but not an “internal referrer” ? Am I correct?.

If so, with the current configuration:

Mysite.com

Mysite.com/pays/fr

Mysite.com/pays/uk

And the OnlyFiles option in Awstats

 to be able estimate these internal referrers, I  could use an Extrasection such as:

ExtraSectionCondition1=”URL,^\\/pays\\/.*\\/$”
ExtraSectionFirstColumnTitle1=”CrossVisitors”
ExtraSectionFirstColumnValues1=”HOST,^(.*)$”
ExtraSectionFirstColumnFormat1=”%s”

Or, it would not make any sense?

Many thanks.