Posts from — May 2008

If you’re seeing results where there are visits but no page views, these are probably visits where non-page files are being requested and nothing else. Here are a couple of custom reports that will help you figure out what’s going on.

(Applies to:  Custom Reports)
This filter allows you to look at visits that contained a certain page … anywhere in the visit.
Other visit filters depend on the first page of a visit.  This one looks at the whole visit.  It’s wonderful.  A bit of a breakthrough in analytics, really.  WebTrends just slid it in a few versions ago without [...]

Betcha didn’t know there are so many ways to affect this.  Usually you won’t care, but you might.  I don’t think anybody has ever listed them all side-by-side. 

Suppression of all query parameters — this is an on-off toggle in the Page Files Types and Download File Types screens, called “truncation.”  When truncated, the Pages report (and [...]

WebTrends has a limited but extremely useful URL rewriter called URL Search & Replace, located in the Report Configuration list.   It allows you to change the URL in a log file line before WebTrends analyzes the line.   The interface is very logical.  Take a look at its setup screen – it’s worth knowing it’s there. 
Its [...]

Here’s an easy way to see what SDC is sending to your SDC server, for any SDC-tagged page your browser is looking at.  Enter this in the address bar and hit Enter:
        javascript:alert(gImages[0].src);
For the same thing, but cut-and-pasteable, do:
        javascript:document.write(gImages[0].src);
Bookmark them so you can quickly do it anytime, on any page your browser is on.
 
If [...]