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All Time:	(4.0)
Version 2.6a:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	2.6a
Release Date:	2005-09-12
License:	Update
Downloads (version 2.6a):	247
Downloads (all versions):	44,185
Price:	$59.00 $249.00 Pro

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Product Description:

Summary is the web log analysis tool that tells you more. Summary features many unique reports including: search words used to find your site in major search engines, periods when the server was down, most commonly used entry points into your site, visitors connection (modem) speed. With more than 100 reports, Summary tells you more than any other tool on the market. Rapidly process log files gigabytes in size. Summary's ultra efficient engine tears through enormous log files in a fraction of the time it takes other products.

What's new in this version:

New Mac OS X native version of Summary.
Mac OS 8/9 and Sun SPARC are no longer supported starting with this release.
Added seven new time period reports, Hourly-Yearly Visits, with new One Page Visits, Tracked Visits (Plus, SP Lite, & SP only), Search Visits, and Robot Visits columns.
Added Total View Time to the Daily-Yearly Metrics reports.
Added tracking for a second goal in SP Lite and SP. Added five new reports: Goal Twos, Tracking Tags by Goal Twos, Referring Domains by Goal Two, Search Phrases by Goal Two, Search Words by Goal Two (all SP Lite and SP only). Added Goal Twos column to Daily-Yearly Metrics reports (SP Lite and SP only).
The Browser Report is now called the Agents Report, the Agents Report is now called the Agent Strings Report, and there is a new Browser Report that also shows platform information.
Added two new reports: Sub-report Metrics and Sub-report Visits.
Added per sub-report request aliases in SP Lite and SP.
Added two new reports: Errors per Visit, Unique Requests per Visit.
Added goal tracking by entry point, two new reports Entry Points by Goal Ones, Entry Point by Goal Twos (goal twos is SP Lite & SP only).
Added Daily/Weekly/Monthly Tracking Tags reports (Plus, SP Lite, and SP only).
New Visits column available in Content reports. Counts the number of visits which requested any given file (Plus, SP Lite, and SP only).
Added File Types Over Time report.
Now supports up to 12 content groups in SP Lite and SP.
The Auth Users Report now supports current hits and hits over time columns.
Added a new column, log file currently exists in the Logs folder, to the Log Detail report.
The Agent Strings Report now displays, and is sorted by, visits.
Summary can now detect that a log file has been compressed and not count it twice if both an uncompressed and a compressed copy are present in the same folder.
The main configuration page now shows which sub-reports don't have passwords (if at least one does).
Summary can now read log files of any size (>4Gig).
Improved internal database layout allows more data to fit into the database. Most users will see a slight reduction in RAM usage, though in some rare cases Summary may require more RAM. This change is particularly significant as you approach the 2 Gig limit in Summary SP Lite and SP, allowing the database to hold between 10% and 30% more information before filling up.
Monthly reports now report on 14 months (instead of 13).
Summary no longer reads logs whose first date is after the global stop processing after date (since they would be filtered out in any case).
Added a configurable value for reaching the goal (and goal two in SP Lite and SP).
Summary now allows Growth and Growth Trend columns in daily/weekly/monthly reports.
Summary now searches for logs one level deeper in the Logs folder (now 4 levels).
Added a search word exclude list (Plus, SP Lite, and SP only).
Added "rel=nofollow" to external links on static HTML reports.
Improved Safari version detection, now uses the version number from the about box instead of the build number.
Added optional flipped bar charts (right to left instead of left to right).
Tracking tags are now displayed with the correct CGI translations, when appropriate (SP Lite and SP only).
Now reports log file open errors in the Log Files report as "ReadErr". Previously these log files would not appear in the Log Files report at all.
Added quite a few new known browsers, including RSS readers and media players.
Added some new top level domain descriptions for recently approved top level domains.
Added error explanations for prxjdg.cgi and /_vti_bin/owssvr.dll.
An out of memory FAQ link is now included with the out of memory warning when viewing reports using the configuration name/password.
The Agent Strings Report now supports the Visits column.
Now ignores control characters (codes 0-31) in search phrases.
Improved the appearance of the tab bars in configuration.
Added BecomeBot, CNET_Snoop, Tcl, and cURL as a known robots.
Added Commodore 64 as a known platform.
Fixed some situations where newer versions of OmniWeb were getting detected as Safari.
Now updates processing status during log header checks.
Several new proxy cluster translations.
Improved second level domain detection for msn.com, distinguishes their search indexing robot from their ISP customers.
Added descriptions for several more file types.
Now distinguishes GMail at Google from Google the search engine in the Referring Domain reports.
Now distinguishes mail, groups, etc at Yahoo from Yahoo the search engine in the Referring Domain reports.
Now uses Search Engines (no country) in the Referrers Overview, instead of with country.
Extracting search words from phrases now recognizes several : specials in google searches (define: movie: link: related: site: and so on).
A to an invalid report in custom HTML could crash, fixed.
The Windows version would sometime hang waiting for a CR, fixed.
Now properly detects Netscape 8 in MSIE compatibility mode.
Added detection of the MacUpdate_Harvest robot, previously being reported as MS IE.
Upgraded to PCRE 6.3, BZLib 1.2.3, and ZLib 1.2.3.
Custom HTML pages ending in '>' could have extra junk appended, fixed.
Moved the Base Directory configuration setting onto the Details configuration page.
A "Restore failed on merge!" error would leave the database locked, preventing subsequent log processing, fixed.
Fixed a bug in the Macintosh version where log files currently open for writing by a web server on the same machine would appear to be over 2 Gig in size, which would result in numbers in the reports which were way too large.
Fixed a bug in the OSX Command Line version where the database would become corrupt if another program was accessing the disk rapidly while Summary was processing logs.
Added a more specific error message for don't have permission errors on the "-quit" command line option.
The Macintosh version now provides an optional install script for launching automatically at startup.
The 30 day trial version message at the top of each page is now smaller for the first ten days.
Simplified the procedure for getting a 30 day trial registration code.
Added a purchase link to the main config page if not already registered.
The upgrade available message when there are too many sub-reports now directly links to upgrade page.
Added an upgrade button to Tools page.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.0
Mac OS Classic

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.0
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS Classic

Feedback Summary:

Version 2.6a:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Not as good as FunnelWeb - Version: 3.0, 7/11/2006 06:21AM PST

(1 of 2 users found this comment useful)

dalizard

While the reporting is pretty comprehensive, if you intend anyone other than yourself to view these reports(i.e. clients), then Summary leads the pack in terms of downright ugly!

FunnelWeb Analyser, recently released as freeware by its makers (Quest: http://www.quest.com/funnel_web_analyzer/ ) is a pro level app, that can be run happily from the CLI, or via a GUI and produces an incredible array of highly customisable reports in HTML or PDF format.

They are also of a quality that clients would leave on their coffee tables, they look so damn good!

Not bad for free!

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Not as good as FunnelWeb

Summary knows your website better than you do - Version: 2.6.5, 11/13/2005 02:47PM PST

Greg Raven

If you're serious about what your website is doing, check out Summary. It has great reports, and really helps you see what is going on with your site(s). The basic version allows you to monitor three sites, which is nice, although the configuration process is so modal it can be maddening. Fortunately, once you get it set up, you rarely have to re-configure. Also, while the basic version allows you to watch three websites, it is capable of downloading the log files only for one, so you have to do the other two manually. I bought a copy even though Earthlink provides "free" Urchin web log analysis.

Robust and fast with comprehensive reports - Version: 2.6a, 9/13/2005 08:33AM PST

mayall

We've used Summary for many years and are extremely pleased. The price is excellent, support superb, and the resulting reports are comprehensive. If you need log analysis, you must try Summary. It truly deserves 5 stars in every category.