View site usage of a portal area.
A while ago I was looking in Sharepoint to find the option where to view the usage details of a portal area. In a WSS site it can be found under Site Settings/Site administration/View Site Usage data. I'm fairly sure now that it is not available through the admin pages of a Sharepoint Portal.
However, if you remove the last part of the url of a portal site and replace it with _layouts/1033/usagedetails.aspx you will find the statistics. (ie for www.myportal.com/default.aspx you can view the statistics at www.myportal.com/_layouts/1033/usagedetails.aspx ). Please note that 1033 may vary depending on the language version of your sharepoint installation.
This not only works for statistics, but for every admin page of a wss site. This is actually obvious if you realize that Sharepoint Portal Server is built on top off WSS.