What is Web Log Analytics and Why You Should Use It

Breakdown of the log entry 

Each line in the server log represents a single request made by a visitor to your website. Here’s a detailed breakdown of what each part means: 

• IP Address: 192.XXX.X.X 
  • This is the IP address of the visitor’s device. 
• User Identifier: – – 
  • These fields are typically used for user identification and authentication, which are not applicable here, hence the hyphens. 
• Timestamp: [24/Jun/2024:14:32:01 +0000] 
• • • The date and time of the request, including the timezone. 
• Request Line: “GET /index.html HTTP/1.1” 
  • The request method (GET), the requested resource (/index.html), and the HTTP version (HTTP/1.1). 
• Response Code: 200 
  • The HTTP status code indicates the result of the request (200 means OK). 
• Response Size: 1024 
  • The size of the response in bytes. 
• Referrer: “https://www.example.com/referrer.html“ 
  • The URL of the referring page that led the visitor to the current page. 
• User Agent: “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36” 
  • Information about the visitor’s browser and operating system. 

In the example above, there are multiple log entries for different resources (HTML page, CSS file, JavaScript file, and an image). This shows that when a visitor loads a webpage, multiple requests are made to load all the necessary resources.