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This technical help system (knowledge base) addresses frequently asked questions and known issues concerning Web services. If you do not find the answer to your question, please contact us.

Are the Web Traffic Statistical Reports useful?
By using this Web traffic analysis and reporting tool, we can trace how many Web devices (Web browsers and other Internet programs) have come to which of our Web sites, from what IP addresses, hitting what Web pages, getting what kinds of results such as "Success", "Access Denied" or "File Not Found", etc.

This Web service in its entirety (you only see its online portion) is a powerful tool for detecting trends, patterns as well as abnormal behaviors of the traffic to the City Web sites. It is designed to track down Web traffic in great detail, and is capable of delineating Web traffic details to the accuracy of the hour. Below are some of its current uses:

• It helps us discover what Web pages or documents on our Web sites are more popular, and what Web pages or documents have no or very few visitors. With this information, we can improve our Web sites based on user preferences.

• It helps us find out what Web pages on our Web sites may cause problems when accessed on the Internet, as well as whether or not there exist bad links to our sites and, if so, where they are.

• It helps us detect almost any abnormal behaviors of the Web traffic to decide whether our Web sites were under security attack and, if so, when and how.
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