Posts from — June 2008

In case you didn’t know, WebTrends 8.5 Analytics software is going to be released any minute now. If you’ve missed the hype, here are the main reasons to consider upgrading:

The Table of Contents is that stuff in the left nav – i.e. what reports are available to the WebTrends end user for that profile. It’s easy enough to use, but you really can only see a little chunk of it at a time. Wouldn’t it be nice to see the Table of Contents all at once in document form? So you could, maybe, re-organize it? Check for completeness? Annotate it? Give it to the end user with annotations as part of orientation?

If you keep up with web analytics news, you may or may not know about the recent fuss over the behavior of a free, widely-used virus-protection program from the company AVG.

Just released: http://tagbuilder.webtrends.com

TagMagic. Extremely cool.

Allows you to create an SDC tag that has advanced features appropriate to your situation. Read the help screen, click on all the little question mark icons, and in general be sure know what you’re doing.

The Why should be obvious. It makes a difference between re-analyzing your entire history and re-analyzing only since the last backup. It’s especially useful when you’ve made a boneheaded configuration mistake and want to cover it up ASAP.

WebTrends has a built-in backup program that works well. Out of the box, it’s not turned on, so consider this a heads-up to do it now. Your main decisions are: