Calculations in Visitors section or web log expert report.

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James Mackinnon
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Hi

I have used web log expert lite to analyse logs produced by our Oracle webcache. However, in the visitors section can anyone tell me how the 'Total Visitors' number is calculated? I assumed that this was related to the ip address but there are only 101 distinct ip addresses in the log file i supplied but the report states we had 198 visitors.
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Michael
The program determines number of visitors by the IP addresses. If a request from an IP address came after some time (timeout) since the last request from this IP, it is considered to belong to a different visitor. The timeout is set to 30 minutes by default but you can change this value in Options > Analysis > General. Requests from spiders aren't used to determine visitors unless the “Count spiders as visitors” option is enabled.