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Cool data visualization: Geographic Heat Maps

Turn long geographic lists from WebTrends reports into wow-level density contour maps with third party software.

March 7, 2010   1 Comment

Cool custom dimension: IP addresses

First, here’s the obligatory gripe.  How is it that WebTrends doesn’t offer IP address as a dimension???  What’s up with that?
Second, here’s the obligatory Outsider solution.  Make your own IP address dimension, of course!  It’s better than the Visitors report because this version will combine into one row all the visitors that have an IP address [...]

January 21, 2010   6 Comments

Basing a dimension on a subpart of a URL

You don’t need to have WebTrends custom reports showing URL craziness like “/discount/Catamaran/coupon/ 8299937-fda.html”. If you just want “Catamaran,” you can extract it and display just that subpart.

May 6, 2009   6 Comments

Under-used Feature – % change over time

Comparing “now” to “then” is the possibly the most frequent kind of comparison in our business.
WebTrends makes it easy to compare time periods and even calculates percentage differences for you.

February 18, 2009   2 Comments

About the WebTrends Outsider

The WebTrends Outsider is a cabal … a conspiracy … a conclave … well, more like a motley crew of WebTrends customer-users who like to use, understand, and explain WebTrends Analytics.  Usually we try to understand before explaining, but not always. 
We’ve gotten our understanding (such as it is) from WebTrends tech support and documentation, and sometimes [...]

April 9, 2008   13 Comments