Not sure if anyone has come across this, thought I would give the Forum a try!
We have multiple sites in a single instance of Squiz Matrix, hosted in the Squiz Cloud. Each month we receive a bill for hosting and traffic charges.
I am hoping to find a way to be able to determine how much traffic each of our 4 site globes have used in that month, in order to be able to aportion the bill across our 4 Departments.
I was hoping it was as simple as setting up a report that would give the bandwidth traffic usage for each specified site globe for a date range. I contacted the Squiz team (Australia) and unfortunately it doesn't not appear to be that easy.
They have suggested we could do a manual analysis of our traffic over a period of time, and using this figure, aportion traffic that way. I don't know that this will work for our needs, as several of our Departments receive a lot of seasonal traffic, so it is hard to find a 'sample' period to analyse.
I guess we could look to have 4 separate clients with Squiz, thereby each Department will receive their own bill, but I would like to keep it as it currently stands with the 1 client preferably.
Has anyone came across this and found a way to aportion the bandwidth/traffic costs to sections of their website/s?
I don't think you can get report of the accurate traffic data elsewhere than Squiz. But presuming all your four site have roughly the same page weight (linked images/ downloadable documents, etc), you can get the report from Google Analytics for pageviews per site from a time range.
Hi Natalie, a previous employer of mine who was a Squiz client with loads of websites in a single installation used AWStats - this was set up by Squiz and provided very detailed bandwidth information for each individual site. The server was run by Squiz, so it’s definitely worth asking them to give you access to AWStats. Good luck!
For an oldie it's pretty useful and reliable. I think it could track individual file asset stats too, though I can't quite remember.
Yeah it does. AWStats reads the Apache access logs, which include public file assets using the __data URL. Google analytics only tracks page loads, unless you inject code to track file downloads as well. But it wont be tracking things like the CSS/JS/Image files used by your design or use of the backend interface for content editing.
Obviously, be careful if you have multiple servers and/or a proxy. Some of your requests may be tracked on different physical servers, so you'd need to combine all the values together (e.g., requests the proxy served and requests that Matrix served directly).