Log files offer a wealth of information about system and user functions. They also provide a safe way to get started analyzing large data sets. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and ...

Want to know why your high-value pages aren’t getting indexed? Or why Google keeps crawling useless parameters over and over and over…but not your blog? Your server logs hold the answers. Yes, they’re ...

Search engine crawl data found within log files is a fantastic source of information for any SEO professional. By analyzing log files, you can gain an understanding of exactly how search engines are ...

In Windows 11/10/8/7, the System File Checker is integrated with Windows Resource Protection, which protects registry keys and folders as well as critical system files. If any changes are detected to ...

As every server administrator knows, log files are the pulse of a network infrastructure. They tell us what has occurred in an application or service, and if they stop growing, something is wrong. Log ...

Crawl budget optimization is crucial for focusing the attention of search engine crawlers onto your website’s most important pages each time they visit. Some of the key benefits of improving crawl ...

Windows File Analyzer will help you decode & analyze the Thumbnail Database, Prefetch folder, Shortcuts, Index.DAT, and Recycle Bin for forensic analysis. We took it for a spin and can say that it is ...

Site owners really don’t know the full story about who, or what, is crawling their sites until they analyze their server logs. Columnist Glenn Gabe shares a case study that illustrates some insights ...

Log rotation on Linux systems is more complicated than you might expect. Which log files are rotated, when and how often, whether or not the rotated log files are compressed, and how many instances of ...