What's New in Analyzer Version 5.0 ?

With this new release, FunnelWeb Analyzer has taken a huge leap into the world of Streaming Media log file analysis. With a huge number of reports added in this area, you are now able to gain Streaming Media statistics as never before. New reports have also been added for traditional Web Server log files, including Billing and Timeslot analysis reports. A great new extended database feature has been added, as well as the ability to deliver zipped reports automatically via e-mail

Below follows a detailed list of all the features and alterations added in this new version. If you want to see examples of our great new version 5.0 reports in Web and Streaming Media mode, you can see them here:

Web Mode Reports

Streaming Mode Reports

New Features:

  • The Enterprise version features 2 new modes of operation: web mode and streaming mode. Web mode is used to perform the same powerful web traffic analysis that has been carried out in previous versions of Analyzer. To enter web mode, select New Settings - Web from the File menu. By default, Analyzer is already in web mode after installation. Streaming mode introduces the ability to perform industrial-strength streaming media traffic analysis and includes 36 new reports, 7 of which have historical variants. To enter streaming mode, select New Settings - Streaming from the File menu. The new streaming mode reports are as follows:

    • Top Error Codes Per Clip. This report shows a breakdown of the different errors experienced by visitors when accessing each clip.

    • Web Pages Referencing Invalid Clips. This report shows web pages which contain broken links to streaming media content on your site.

    • Average Packet Loss Per Clip. This report shows the average packet loss for each clip and allows administrators to diagnose possible transmission bottlenecks with certain clips.

    • Packet Loss vs. Transfer Rate. This report shows the amount of packet loss being experienced at different transfer rates, as well as the number of clips being played at the corresponding transfer rate.

    • Average Seconds Buffered Per Clip. This report shows the amount of time users had to wait while clips were buffering (at the start of and during a session).

    • Highest Quality Clips. This report identifies the highest quality clips on your site, measured as the percentage of data sent by the server versus the actual amount of data received by the visitor.

    • Lowest Quality Clips. This report identifies the lowest quality clips on your site, measured as the percentage of data sent by the server versus the actual amount of data received by the visitor.

    • Most Popular Video Clips. This report shows the most popular video clips viewed on your site. There is also a history version of this report.

    • Video Clip Viewing Times. This report details the average time spent viewing video clips.

    • Video Clip Transfer Rates. This report gauges the average transfer rate of streamed video clips as well as the total bandwidth consumed by these clips.

    • Most Popular Audio Clips. This report shows the most popular audio clips played on your site. There is also a history version of this report.

    • Audio Clip Listening Times. This report details the average time spent listening to audio clips.

    • Audio Clip Transfer Rates. This report gauges the average transfer rate of streamed audio clips as well as the total bandwidth consumed by these clips.

    • Most Popular Clips. This report shows the most popular audio and video clips being viewed on your site. There is also a history version of this report.

    • Least Played Clips. This report shows the least popular audio and video clips being played on your site.

    • First Entry Clips. This report shows the audio and video clips by which visitors entered your site. There is also a history version of this report.

    • Maximum Concurrent Connections Per Clip. This report shows the point in time at which an audio or video clip attracted its maximum number of concurrent connections.

    • Percentage Streamed Per Clip. This report shows the average amount of megabytes transferred to users viewing streaming audio or video clips, contrasted against the total expected number of megabytes.

    • Uninterrupted Plays Per Clip. This report identifies the number of times an audio or video clip was successfully played from start to finish without rewinding or forward-winding.

    • Average Forward Winds Per Clip. This report shows the average number of times an audio or video clip was forward-wound in one session.

    • Average Rewinds Per Clip. This report shows the average number of times an audio or video clip is rewound in one session.

    • Media Types. This report shows the different types of audio and video media being accessed on your site.

    • Most Popular Live Video Clips. This report shows the most popular live video clips viewed on your site. There is also a history version of this report.

    • Live Video Clip Viewing Times. This report details the average time spent viewing live video clips.

    • Live Video Clip Transfer Rates. This report gauges the average transfer rate of streamed live video clips as well as the total bandwidth consumed by these clips.

    • Most Popular Live Audio Clips. This report shows the most popular live audio clips played on your site. There is also a history version of this report.

    • Live Audio Clip Listening Times. This report details the average time spent listening to live audio clips.

    • Live Audio Clip Transfer Rates. This report gauges the average transfer rate of streamed live audio clips as well as the total bandwidth consumed by these clips.

    • Maximum Concurrent Connections Per Live Clip. This report shows the point in time that a live clip attracted its maximum number of concurrent connections.

    • Media Players Used. This report shows the most popular programs being used to access streaming content. There is also a history version of this report.

    • Media Players vs. Operating Systems. This report shows the Media Players (and their version number) being used by site visitors to stream content on your site, along with the operating system on which they are running.

    • Most Popular CPU Types. This report shows the most popular CPU types being used by site visitors.

    • Most Popular Languages. This report shows the most popular default languages being used on the systems of your visitors.

    • Protocols Used To Transfer Clips. This report shows the different types of protocols used to transfer clips. It also displays the Average Packet Loss and amount of errors associated with certain protocols.

    • Most Utilized Audio Codecs. This report identifies the codecs that are used to listen to audio content on your site. It also gives information on the amount of errors associated with each codec.

    • Most Utilized Video Codecs. This report identifies the codecs that are used to view video content on your site. It also gives information on the amount of errors associated with each codec.

    • Webcast Reports. In webcast analysis mode, an individual virtual domain-style report is produced for each webcast defined within your settings.

  • The Enterprise version of Analyzer also features 2 new reports that are applicable to web mode as well as streaming mode. The new reports are:

    • Timeslot Analysis. This report is similar to the other standard traffic reports (for example Hourly) except that the actual timeslot interval may be specified via your settings.

    • Billing Customers. This report outlines information such as bandwidth consumed, raw data transferred, concurrent connection count as well as a final charge, for each customer defined within your settings.

  • Enterprise supports an Extended Database facility, whereby log data is added to an extended database in a manner that preserves individual log entries. Consequently, the database may be re-processed with different settings than those used when the log data was originally added.

  • The Enterprise post-process email notification facility has a new option to zip up and attach the report to the email notification message.

  • Analyzer has had a facelift with new toolbar and settings icons. Analyzer's reports also feature a new look and feel with new banners and colors.

  • Analyzer is now able to save HTML reports with extensions other than .html, such as .asp, .cfm and .php.

  • When processing more than a single log at a time, Analyzer now pre-sorts the logs to ensure that they're processed in the correct time order. This applies to normal processing as well as to scheduled processing.

  • The filename of the HTML summary template may now be specified via the settings. This makes switching between multiple summary template files easier.

  • PDF and RTF reports have been enhanced with the addition of external hyperlinks that operate in a similar manner to hyperlinks within HTML reports.

  • Support has been added for accessing ftp servers on port numbers other than 21. To specify a different port, append a colon followed by the port number to the ftp sever host. This applies to ftp pre/post processing, as well as to processing logs via Windows ftp url shortcuts

  • Several performance enhancements have been made to the retrieve HTML page titles feature.

  • When Analyzer zips up its reports, it now adds the files and directories using relative paths rather than absolute paths. This makes it easier to relocate zipped up reports. This is especially useful for zipping up virtual host style reports.

  • The default Windows operation system has been changed from Windows 3.1 to Windows 98. If Analyzer detects an unknown version of Windows within a log file entry, then the actual version will be assumed to be Windows 98.

  • Analyzer now includes only "true" errors within its error reports. That is, errors with a status code of 400 or greater.

  • Improvements have been made in the manner in which visitor sessions are tracked. These improvements have resulted in increased accuracy. You may notice slightly different session counts when comparing version 5.0 reports to those produce by previous versions of Analyzer.

  • Total visitor counts within the traffic reports now display the total number of unique visitors for the entire report. In previous versions of Analyzer, the total visitor counts were calculated by summing the unique visitor columns above them. For this reason, the traffic report total visitor counts produced by Analyzer version 5.0 may be significantly lower than those produced by previous versions.

  • Analyzer version 5.0 features an updated row sorting algorithm. You may notice slight differences in the ordering of rows that contain identical sort values when comparing version 5.0 reports to those produced by previous versions of Analyzer. You may also notice differences in certain summary report values, such as the least popular page.

  • FWASettings.txt (see below) has been updated with new search engines, robots and browsers.

  • The PDF manual has been updated to accurately represent the functionality within the product.

    • Greg Stehle
    Funnel Web Analyzer

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