Category — Titles and URLs

(Applies to:  server log data sources, SDC)
If you are using server log files, have turned on “Retrieve HTML Page Titles, and if WebTrends doesn’t already know the title, WebTrends actually visits your site to collect the title.  Well, it visits what you’ve told it is the site.  It goes to the domain that you entered in the [...]

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 [...]

You might have followed our advice in the previous topic and turned off Parameter Truncation in the Page File Types screen.  And maybe you got a little more than you bargained for.  And if you’re using SDC to gather your raw data, you got a LOT more than you bargained for, like about 10 lines [...]

This post is about how WebTrends lets you deal with dynamic pages, and addresses this problem:
“In my Pages report, all I see is a few generic file names!”
The question refers to this situation: your site is based on templates and its filenames consist of a generic part (the actual file name, like “page.asp” or “product.asp”) [...]