This graphics shows the daily activity for the specified visitor type (human and non-human) and for the server. The following information are displayed:
There is a lot of differences in the visitors behaviour, depending if there are human or non-human. Human activity tends to be at working hours (about 08:00 to 17:00), when Non-human activity tends to be spread on the full day (some non-human visitors are friendly enough to work more at night that during human working hours, in order not to overload your server). Both activity are combined in the server activity.
In general, human activity is more important that non-human activity.
Most of non-human visitors are looking only for web pages (*.htm, *.html, *.jsp, etc.), not for their associated ressources (javascript code, images, etc.). Consequently, the non-human visitors will have have almost the same number of pages and hits (the slight difference is due for example to web site downloaders). Human visitors usually have a greater number of hits than pages, especially if your web site have a lot of images.
The daily activity graph is computed using the log record time for each hour. For human and non-human visitors, the time zone is taken into account (the visitor country is used to detect the time zone, according to the mappings defined in the geographic_database.xml
file).
This detection method is not always precise especially for countries that uses several time zones (United States of America, Russia, Australia, etc.). For such countries, the country-to-timezone mapping of the geographic_database.xml
file should be adapted to correspond to the most probable time zone of your visitors.
Another cause of error is the visitor country detection method. For example if your visitor comes from a proxy that is not in the same time zone than the visitor real time zone, or if your visitor comes from a satellite link.