Here at GreyFace Productions, we have been building, updating and managing web sites for some time now. There are several problems that every web manager faces at some point, and usually has no clue how to handle.

As your site grows and matures, you begin to find that you have somehow lost "track" of how it is performing on a day by day basis. So many pages, so many pathways, no idea of what pages and paths your visitors are following. This lack of information can cause you to make drastic mistakes in reorganizing and managing your site. For instance, you might remove a popular page because you did not realize it's true traffic. You might edit a page, hoping to increase it's interest level, only to find that you have just given your visitors a high-speed offramp out of your site.

SitePath™ has been designed to help a website manager avoid pitfalls such as these. SitePath's reports allow the manager to get a good "feel" for their site's activity. Several of the most difficult aspects of site management are rather easily performed once the site manager is properly equipped with complete and correct information. There have been, and no doubt will continue to be, various schemes and techniques to monitor a website's activity. These range from the merely annoying (putting JavaScript or similar "counters" on every page), to the completely ridiculous (change all pages to SSI or "silent SSI" pages).

All of these schemes produce viable information, but they still overlook one guaranteed true and correct source of detailed information: Your server's logs. Each time your webserver sends anything to a remote client, an entry is made in the server log file. Most log files are stored in a standard format loosely defined as "httpd" style.

SitePath™ utilizes the information stored in your webserver's log file to generate its concise and informative reports. Because you know you can count on the source of the information, you also know you can count on the results and insights derived from SitePath's reports.