From: mnot@pobox.com (Mark Nottingham)
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Follow 2.02- Web usability analysis tool
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:44:32 GMT

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I'm pleased to announce the availability of Follow 2, a Web logfile tool for
usability analysis. 

Instead of giving hit counts (like most Web log analysis tools), Follow 
tracks 'User Sessions'. a User Session is one complete path that a user 
takes through your site; Follow will reconstruct it from the logfiles. 
Then, you have your choice of how to view the data. You can view 
sessions directly, on a Page-by-Page basis to reveal how a particular 
page is used, or in a Summary to highlight outstanding pages.

By using the Page-by-Page and Summary views, you can determine how long 
users spend on a page, how they reach it, where they go from it and 
other statistics. This information can help you design a more usable Web 
site.

Follow gets the most possible information out of your log files, while 
still being net-friendly; it doesn't require your users to run a java 
browser, and doesn't force you to modify your site in any way.

Follow 2 is currently available for the following platforms:

* Linux ELF (intel)
* FreeBSD 2
* SunOs
* Solaris (sparc)

More platforms will be supported soon.

Follow 2 is shareware, and is reasonably priced for single sites, as 
well as ISPs and Web Hosting firms.  Educational and non-profit institutions 
are not obliged to pay the license fee. More information, sample output and 
demonstration copies are available from

http://www.pobox.com/~mnot/follow2/

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Mark Nottingham
Web architecture, design and programming
Melbourne, Australia
mnot@pobox.com




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