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Summary - 3.0

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Version 3.0:	Not rated (0.0)
Selected Version:	3.0
Release Date:	2006-06-27
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 3.0):	563
Downloads (all versions):	44,172
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:

Completely redesigned overviews! The overviews are now task oriented and include pie charts and interactive bar charts and line graphs. The new overviews put all the information you might need for several common tasks all in one place.
New appearance throughout. Now uses CSS and supports recent HTML standards.
Added a new Javascript Enabled report, requires that the new Javascript code be installed at your site.
Added Visitors : ISPs and Visitors : Robots : Agents reports and renamed some others.
Added several new rows to the Compare Time Periods report, Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only.
Added support for a third high memory usage report. Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only.
Added support for name/password authentication to the SMTP server when sending e-mails, Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only.
Visits with tracking tags now count the tracking tag as their referrer, Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only.
Added a text size configuration setting. Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only.
Renamed "current" to "recent" throughout.
Improved detection of some of the Google robots that "hide" their name.
The Windows version is now compatible 64 bit versions of Windows (Summary runs in 32 bit mode).
More aggressive removal of serial numbers/unique keys from agent strings, reduces memory usage slightly.
Moved the Language report to Visitors : Country.
Three of the high memory reports are now turned on by default in new configurations. Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only.
The Windows version now uses a different, more up to date, installer.
When upgrading from Summary 1.x, custom report layouts and report disables will be lost.
Reorganized the custom HTML configuration pages, Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP only.
Custom HTML header/footers are not imported from older versions. Changes to the custom HTML support require that they be rewritten anyway. Summary SP Lite and SP only.
New optional column percent of visits (no decimal).
Numerous small changes and extensions to the custom HTML support. Existing custom HTML headers and footers will need to be rewritten. Summary SP Lite and SP only.
- Added no-title option to <sum-topn>.
- Added empty(XX) option to <sum-if> expressions.
- Made ! a general oporator in <sum-if> expressions.
- Added <sum-else>.
- Can now nest <sum-if>s.
- Added any-output, plus, sp, true, false conditionals to sum-if expresions.
- Added pie-chart option to TopN.
- Switched <sum-graph> to use the new .gif graphs.
- Added title=xxxx option for <sum-topn>.
- Added using and on-right option to TopN.
Switched text reports from .text to .txt.
Improved path clipping in reports.
Page as spreadsheet no longer uses the same file name as report as spreadsheet.
Small adjustments to the default layout of several reports.
Added a better error message for console can't write to script file on the Macintosh version.
Updated to PCRE 6.6.

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
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

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X
Universal Binary

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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.