Category — Filters

All search terms are not alike. Here’s how to get WebTrends to give you site behavior data for different kinds of search terms, starting with a simple branded vs nonbranded term distinction.

If you’re analyzing data for a web site that’s available to the public, you probably don’t want your own company’s traffic in the reports. (The situation is quite different if you are analyzing traffic on your company’s intranet.) Filtering out your coworkers’ visits to your web site isn’t always straightforward. Here are the two most common situations and the solutions.

Newbie users, you might want to avert your eyes because this topic could make you think you’ll just never master this program.  There are so many ins and outs to know about, aren’t there. 
(Actually, newbies, you’ll probably never need to know 99% of this stuff so don’t let it get you down.  Most users never […]

(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 […]