This is the second part of the six-part-series “Building your own Web Analytics from Log Files”. Architecture Overview To start of this series, let’s remember what we want to achieve: We want to enable a deeper understanding of our website users by enriching and processing the log files we already collect. This article looks at the components we need for this and how to make our life as easy as possible. To achieve our goal, we need to teach our web server to identify our users, store information about the activity in the log files, ship those files to storage and make it actionable with a way of visualizing it. Because I believe in Open Source Software, we will look at our options among that category. Another requirement is to introduce as less components as possible and keep scalability in mind. Choosing our Web Server The first part of our […]