topic Re: Count Web hits in SAS Programming

Count Web hits

DLROW — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:41:59 GMT

Hi - Can you please let me know how to write the program to count number of web hits for each month in SAS EG?

Re: Count Web hits

JOL — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 20:57:00 GMT

Need more information, what does your data source look like?

Re: Count Web hits

DLROW — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:13:18 GMT

I was given an URL (website) and asked to get the hit count. I am not sure if this can be done from SAS. I did look into PROC HTTP which cannot do anything on this requirement I guess. I also searched but couldn't find any solution. My thought is, coding should be done on the website itself and I can not do any coding from SAS. Please suggest.

Re: Count Web hits

JOL — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 17:03:35 GMT

SAS works on table (row, column) structured data. You would need those hits imported into some sort of table file structure, or a delimited file that can be converted to a table.

Re: Count Web hits

Sajid01 — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:36:54 GMT

One would need access to the access_logs on the server in order to count the web hits.

Consider using SAS Web Analytics. Have a look at theis paper https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings/proceedings/sugi31/016-31.pdf

Re: Count Web hits

DLROW — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:12:08 GMT

I thought so. Thank you.

Re: Count Web hits

DLROW — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:19:03 GMT

I'll look into it. Thanks.

Re: Count Web hits

ChrisNZ — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 23:42:24 GMT

There's no way you can get a hit count just by knowing the URL.

You need access to the log files.