Count Web hits

[DLROW]

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

[JOL]

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

[DLROW]

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.

[JOL]

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.

[DLROW]

I thought so. Thank you.

[ChrisNZ]

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

You need access to the log files.

[Sajid01]

 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 

[DLROW]

I'll look into it. Thanks.