Re: [jetty-users] How can I accurately count visits?

[Olivier Lamy <olamy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure how Jetty can help except for you writing some code (custom
request log) but you will need to write your own logic regarding
session creation etc...

better to use some existing web analytics tools (there are so many
from free to paying) you will need to find which insert some js
analytics but be careful with GDPR rules.



On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 7:20 AM <gouessej@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I would like to count visits. I use Jetty 11, my logs are in combined log format (I guess from a line produced by a silly script kiddy):
> 209.141.54.8 - - [10/Aug/2021:05:40:17 +0000] "POST /boaform/admin/formLogin HTTP/1.1" 404 451 "http://80.13.94.99:80/admin/login.asp"; "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0"
>
> I can't use GoAccess because it counts hits but it doesn't count visits. I can't use AWStats because it seems to count only the visits on the pages, not the direct visits of image files for example. I can't use Matomo because it requires PHP (I don't want to install PHP only to use a single program).
>
> I would like to know whether a request has been caused by a previous request. For example, imagine that index.html refers to img.png. When I go to index.html, it will cause at least 2 hits. I would like to be able to count as a single visit for those two hits and I would like to count as another visit a hit on this image when this hit is caused by another page (coming from a search engine). Is it doable without having to parse the HTML file to determine whether it refers to an image? Maybe I can override RequestLog to do that:
> https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/javadoc/jetty-11/org/eclipse/jetty/server/RequestLog.html
>
> Best regards.
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Olivier