Traffic Management (Web Logs / Site Statistics)

Like any other site running on a web server, statistics (regarding traffic and user behaviour) can be captured by the web server and analyzed by any standard web log analysis tool. 

Morphfolia augments this with an internal logging sub-system which offers additional functionality and capabilities:

• Administrators can get a real-time picture of site usage without leaving the management area
• Session tracing: which pages did an individual user view, and how long did they view each page
• See how users get to, and where they go from, any page in the site.  Where do users go from the home page?
• Where were users when they did a search, and where did they go afterwards?

The "Traffic Reporter" (above).

As the user traffic monitoring is ‘real-time’ developers can access this information and design functionality that uses this information to their advantage: show certain content to a user who has found something via the search, or who has search three consecutive times, target advertising and so on.

The list of session histories (above) and a session history (below).

The web logs are stored in the back-end database, and can be searched just like audit and system logs, as well as extracted into an off-line system for detailed analysis.

Morphfolia also allows you to log http traffic aganist non-ASP.NET files (ones that aren't normally covered by the .Net runtime); this is done via an HttpHandler call which includes a call the HttpLogger object.  Rather than make a 'normal' hyperlink to the file using it's Url, call the BinaryFileInterceptor instead, as shown below.

<A href="http://www.yoursite.org/SomeCoolStuff/BinaryFileInterceptor.ashx?filename=SomeExcellentIntel.zip">SomeFiles.zip</A>