Overview

Your access log is a database detailing the visitor activity that occurs on your website.

Activity Syntax

Each entry of your log, in addition to containing an access time and information about a visitor, will contain a description of the logged event in the following format:

Page Title (Type) [Action]

• Page Title — The title of the page that this visitor accessed (ex: My favorite books, My journal, etc.).
• Type — The type of the page that was accessed (ex: File, Page, Journal, etc.).
• Action — What sort of action was performed within this page (ex: Login Successful, Login Failed, Recommendation Email Sent, etc.).

Activity Action Types

The action field can contain the following types of events:

• [Login Successful] — This visitor successfully logged in to your website.
• [Login Failed] — This visitor failed a login attempt to your website.
• [Recommendation Email Sent] — This visitor used your site to recommend the indicated article to someone else.
• [Email Sent] — This visitor used the indicated portion of your site to send a contact email.

Visitor Information

Each visitor record will (when clicked) display the following pieces of information:

• Time — The time which this visitor accessed your site.
• IP Address — The IP address this visitor was coming from. IP addresses are numbers assigned to each machine on the internet.
• Hostname — The hostname corresponding to the IP address of this visitor.
• Referrer (If Available) — A link to the page that this visitor followed to access the.
• User Agent — A string representing the browser that this visitor was using. If this visitor was a robot, the user agent will indicate the type of robot.