Category — Basics

WebTrends On-Premises users can test their customizations using a test log. Here’s one approach to making one.

There are days when I think the best possible thing I could do for end users of web analytics reports would be to give them more and better … explanations. Here are several ways you can help your users by adding or modifying the language of WebTrends reports.

This is for WebTrends newbies who are ready to try a custom report. We think, we hope, that WebTrends users who have hesitated to tackle this ultra-valuable feature will find it far easier than they thought. Often, the hesitation is simply due to terminology issues! We’ll go slow.

This post covers a lot of short WebTrends related questions that jump out at us when we look at our on-site and off-site search reports. The topics range from critical ones like DCS Multitrack and increasing the length of reports to little guys like seeing # in URLs.

When you click on Re-Analyze, you get the warning “Any previously analyzed data will be lost.”

Let’s make that little warning really clear. It means: Should you go ahead with a re-analyze, ALL previous processing will be erased, along with all WebTrends-controlled backups. Your configurations stay, but WebTrends deletes all statistics and all backups and starts analysis over with the earliest raw data it can find.