This is going to be a simple answer, I'm sure, but at the moment I am not sure what I need to do to get the answer.
I have been asked to provide some data on the total unique amount of downloads a particular PDF file on our webserver is getting.
I have IIS logging switched on so I presume the information about the file being downloaded will be in here, but I am not sure how I go about getting data from these files.
Anyone have any good suggestions on how I can go about getting this info ??
Go get the Log Parser utility from Microsoft.
Then use something like
For a real simple set of output, like:
Also, you'll need to work out what unique means, and then adjust the totals for that. For example, a 304 probably reflects a non-unique download, so you'd potentially:
Edit: Web logs are (usually) just text files, one line per entry. So you don't even need to use LogParser just to get a count:
Then open JustPDF in Excel, or get a line count in any other way.
Plus, lots of examples around. Here, here and here.