After a while, however, it will start to get tedious and boring to pore over the basic page logs to try and determine some information about the usage of your web pages.

• Raw hits are not a good measure of actual usage.
• It would be useful to be able to identify an entire "session" in which someone was visiting your site.
• Although it is not necessarily clear exactly what constitutes a session, you can still get information from your logs on what is a reasonable approximation to one.

At this point, you may want to go back one page for a moment, and compare the two sample graphs in terms of their likely meaningfulness.

Or you may be ready to move right ahead, to consider what you would want if you were to implement a Session Logger rather than the simpler page logger.