Deep Log Analyzer versions history

What's new in this release of Deep Log Analyzer

Version 5.0 (December 21, 2012)

• New: recognition of Windows 8 and Windows Phone in Operating Systems report
• New: Deep Log Analyzer now works on Windows 8 and Server 2012
• New: updated DeepTracker html code now validates as HTML 5, HTML 4.01 Strict and XHTML 1.0 Strict. It is recommended to replace the code on your website and put it just before the closing </body> tag at the very bottom of the page. New DeepTracker code can be copied from Project Settings - DeepTracker Code tab
• New: show search phrase "NOT PROVIDED" for Google secure search (Google removes actual search phrase from the referrer field when a user is logged in google via HTTPS)
• fix: on some computers it was asking to re-enter the registration information on every start
• minor fixes and improvements

Version 4.0 (August 27, 2010)

• New: Bing search engine definition added
• New: Browser and platform definitions added: Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile/CE (IE Mobile), Palm WebOS, Apple iPad
• New: search spider definitions added
• Improved: updated "IP to country" database
• New: minor updates of user interface on Windows 7
• New: does not support Windows 2000 anymore

Version 3.51 (April 16, 2009)

• New: Recognition of new platforms: Windows 7, Mac OS versions
• New: Recognition of Google Chrome browser
• Fixed: crash during import of some logs
• multiple minor fixes and stability impovements

Version 3.5 (April 17, 2008)

• New: Greatly improved performance. Explore a report while other reports execute in background on different tabs. New multi-threading technology takes full advantage of new multi-core CPUs. Open several reports on separate tabs (Shift+click on the report name to open it in New Tab) and they will execute simultaneously. Application remains responsive at all times
• New: pages as links in reports. Click in reports on a page name of your analyzed website opens page in browser
• New: List of reports in group export as interactive menu
• New: recognition of iPhone/iPod touch platform in Operating Systems report
• New: support of Windows Vista SP1

Version 3.2 (April 5, 2007)

• Fixed: exclude requests to other virtual domains option did not work in previous version
• Fixed: reports in Site Navigation group were incomplete

Version 3.1 (December 27, 2006)

• New: Help file updated accordingly to new DeepTracker features
• New: Printable .pdf manual is availbale for download
• New: Works on Windows Vista now

Version 3.0 (December 5, 2006). Major update of Deep Log Analyzer

• New: You can use this web analytics solution free of charge now! We created Free Edition of Deep Log Analyzer. It has great reporting capabilities that are enough for smaller websites. It's a great way to start tracking stats for your website. You can easily upgrade to Professional Edition as your site grows. Professional Edition offers such advanced features as export and printing of reports, scheduler, more reports, ability to create custom reports, and more.
  Standard Edition of Deep Log Analyzer is not available anymore.
• New: DeepTracker technology for tracking sessions and visitors based on cookies. To take full advantage of this tracking method, you need to upload 2 small files to the website and add a fragment of HTML code called DeepTracker Code in website's pages. Check Project Settings - DeepTracker Code tab for instructions DeepTracker method is the most accurate method of session and visitors tracking availabile in web analytics.
• New: 5 new reports added with extra client info: Screen Resolution, Color Depth, JavaScript Support, Flash plugin/addon Versions, System Language. These reports require DeepTracker Code to be installed on the website.
• New: (Pro edition only) Scheduler. You can set the project to run automatically by schedule. Program will download and process updated log file and export reports in html format to specified location. Scheduler can work on server as the process is fully automatic and does not require user intervention.
• New: Detection of live.com search engine
• Fixed: Date in General Statistics report and in reports exported to HTML is shown in your country's format (according to Windows Regional Settings)
• Windows 98, Me and NT4 are not supported anymore.

Version 2.9 (September 5, 2006)

• New: Office 2007 look added with four new visual styles. Style can be changed via View-Application Look menu in Deep Log Analyzer.
• If you are upgrading, this version requires new registration key, that can be received from Deep Software

Version 2.8 (July 6, 2006)

• Fixed: Limited Windows users can now work with DLA. Previously users with limited access rights could not work with DLA resulting in Access Denied error messages. Authenticated Users group has now full control on Data Storage folder that contains all projects. Installation still requires Administrator user permissions
• Fixed: Program now activates for all users on the computer. Previously you had to activate it for each user. As a result DLA can now run under non-interactive users, from scripts or ASP.NET code, for example
• Fixed: Graphical charts are now exported in HTML reports using full colors even if the server has 256-color video card
• Fixed: When the program runs from script, it returns a script error if the trial period has expired or the program is not activated, but does not pop up the reminder window as before
• Fixed error messages "MS Jet or DAO : class not registered", that appeared on some computers. DLA installation re-registers MS Jet now.
• Fixed: Correct thousands separators when exporting to Excel according to regional settigns in Windows

Version 2.7 (March 9, 2006)

• New: Filter reports. Type text in a field above the report and view only those rows of the report that contain this text
• Improved: Local log files can be imported while they are still open for writing by web server. This caused a sharing violation error in previous versions of DLA
• Changed: Files without extensions are recognized as pages now and appear in such reports as Top Pages, Popular Paths, etc.
• Improved: Standard report Server Errors in Diagnostic group now includes names of the pages where the errors occurred. Click Expand to view page names on second level of the report
• New: Recognition of Windows Vista and Windows 2003 Server platforms and Safari browser on Mac OS
• New: Depth of Visit standard report has been added. It shows how many pages users view in one visit when browsing your website. Does not include visits by search engine bots
• Fixed: FTP transfer of logs sometimes failed with error "Unable to create local file..."

Version 2.6 (Nov 23, 2005)

• View in Excel button. Instantly exports report table to MS Excel and creates a diagram on the separate sheet. Allows you to do advanced data analysis in MS Excel. Requires at least MS Excel version 10 (2002) or newer
• Prune database. Deletes old data from project in order to improve reports speed and free some disk space. Look for this setting on Database tab in Project Settings
• Significant improvement in speed of deleting imported logs from database when deleting data before or after specified date
• Do Not Import Error Hits option has been added to project settings- Exclude tab
• OLE Automation object's model has been enhanced. Reports collection and Report objects have been added for sophisticated report's manipulation; now you may fine-tune exporting process with ExportOptions object. Project and Application objects functionality was extended. Please review corresponding user documentation (dlaolepub.chm) for more details.
• Data storage can now be moved only to fixed drive
• Added ability to customize graphical chart for custom reports
• Improved export to HTML of single report
• Enhanced application's context menus
• Improved calendar
• Minor fixes and improvements

Version 2.5 (Jun 30, 2005)

• OLE Automation support has been added. Program can be scripted with VBScript, JavaScript or any other scripting languages supporting OLE Automation. This allows you to automate log files import, reports generation and exporting to HTML. For more information view samples and help on Deep Log Analyzer object model
• Copy report to clipboard. Select multiple lines in the report table and press Ctrl+C copy them to clipboard. Good for pasting into Excel for advanced analysis
• Copy selected text to clipboard. Double-click on a cell in report table to select all text of a cell or part of it, then press Ctrl+C to copy selected text.
• Copy chart to clipboard. Right click on the report's chart and click Copy to Clipboard in menu
• Added Total and Others lines in reports exported to HTML
• Improved work with ftp
• Minor fixes and improvements

Version 2.4 (May 17, 2005)

• Improved handling of large log files with much less memory resources required. Program can now process log files of more than 4Gb in size
• Improved algorithm for parsing log files in CLF (Apache) format
• Numbers on the chart bars are now scaled together with bars
• Logs import progress window improvements
• Updated icons with new fresh look
• Added new import-time filter that allows you to exclude hits on certain files from import in database. Edit Filter-ExcludeFiles= variable in project's dla-file

Version 2.3 (Mar 2, 2005)

• Whois lookup for visitors' IP addresses. Click on the underlined IP address in reports to open whois information in browser
• Multilevel reports print and export to html. A hierarchy is preserved in printed or exported to html report.
• Report help tab. Implemented tab that displays short description of the opened report
• Html Export improved. Short help card added at the bottom of the exported report. This can be turned off in program Options
• Minor UI improvements

Version 2.2 (Jan 12, 2005)

• Improved support for international search phrases
• Compact and Repair Database feature has been added. It reduces project database size substantially and allows you to import more logs into a project
• Minor changes:
  • By default Export List html files are saved in My Documents\My Reports folder. Program also remembers last folder selected for Export List html report.
  • Improved handling of situations when importing large log files
  • Long file names are truncated in General Stats report for better look
  • "What's this?" help added to Export List window
  • DLA now supports longer URLs in log file. Option "Retain URL parameters from the list" works with queries longer than 255 chars. But final URL with dropped URL parameters still can not exceed 255 characters.

Version 2.1 (Dec 4, 2004)

• Export list functionality improved
• Updated Sample Project
• Setup will download and install latest MS Jet Service Pack if required
• Minor improvements and bug fixes

Version 2.0 (Nov 12, 2004)

• Full help system has been designed and included in this release
• Export list of reports to one complex framed html report (Pro edition only)
• New Options window with the following settings:
  • Open last project on program startup
  • Restore opened reports when loading project
  • Pause logs import after specified number of errors
  • Number of rows for html export and print
  • Width in pixels of html-report
• Two separate Standard and Professional editions are now available. Free trial version includes all features of Professional edition
• New "smart docking" user interface for docking control panels
• Longer list of standard date ranges that can be selected in combo box in calendar bar
• Other improvements and bug fixes

Version 1.51 (Oct 14, 2004)

• Import time filter of log records by file name. Specify a list of file masks using wildcards that will be imported into the project's database. Hits on other files will be ignored. This allows, for example, to create a separate project for each folder of the website treating folders as individual virtual sites, or import only files with specific extensions. There is no user interface for changing this setting in current version. To set file filter setting open 'Project name'.dla file located in the project's folder in Notepad and add a line in the following format:
  Filter-IncludeFiles=/download/*;/folder1/*;*.htm
  (File masks should be separated by semicolons)

Version 1.5 (Sept 27, 2004)

• New reports group called "Site Navigation" that includes 3 new useful reports:
  • Popular Paths through Site shows the list of typical ways users take while navigating your website;
  • Came from Page report shows from which pages users came to the particular page
  • Left to Page report show where users went after leaving certain page on the website
  These reports will work only on newly imported logs. Reimport logs in old projects to view these reports on your olad data.
• Database has a new table called VisitorPath that includes all paths users take while navigating the website. DLA will convert databases to the new format when you open your old projects. This may take a while. Old database is saved in hit.bak file for the case if something goes wrong.
• Visitors Bouncing Rate report shows how many users entered the website through the particular web page and exited the site right away (bounced). This allows to estimate quality of your website landing pages and improve website browsing rate.
• Reports "Visitor Stay Length" and "Number of Visits per Visitor" are now easier to read as they include intervals instead of numerous multiple records
• Export General Stats report to html
• Empty fields in some reports have been replaced with the explaining text, for example "No Referrer"
• Recognition of Mozilla Firefox browser
• Header and footer on every page in printed reports
• Updated IP-To-Country Database
• Many minor improvements and fixes

Version 1.4 (Aug 25, 2004)

• New improved report Printing and Print Preview
• URLs in the reports are active now. Click to open URL in the browser
• Updated IP-To-Country Database
• Do not import graphics option was not saved when you hit Finish & Analyze button
• Open button in Open Project dialog sometimes did not work
• Intelligent column width selection in the reports based on the information in the column
• Other minor improvements

Version 1.3 (Jul 10 , 2004)

• Export reports to HTML. View reports in browser, share exported reports, publish them on the web, email or print them easily from your browser. Press Alt+E for export
• Save graphic chart image to png-file (Alt+C)
• Support for multi-domain log files on virtual server. This is a situation when the web server writes requests to several web sites in the same log file.
• 25-day logs import limit in trial has been removed
• Minor improvements and bug fixes

Version 1.2 (June 11, 2004)

• Tips of the day in separate docking panel
• Context "What's this?" help on controls in all dialog windows
• "Buffer overrun" problem during log files import on some logs has been fixed

Version 1.1 (May 14, 2004)

• Minor improvements

Version 1.05 (Apr 21, 2004)

• Problems when running on Windows 98 have been resolved
• Fixed problem with couple of particular log file formats
• Few minor bugs have been fixed

Version 1.0 (Apr 1, 2004)

• Initial release