Category — Under-appreciated Features

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.

In Referrers reports, your own site is often one of the top items. We explain why, and what you can do about it in your WebTrends settings.

Applies to: All versions
The ODBC driver is probably my favorite WebTrends feature. With the ODBC driver I can create a 1 click report in Excel that I can distribute to anyone in my organization. They don’t have to log in, they don’t have to figure out which profile has the report they want, they just [...]

WebTrends has a feature called Content Groups, which is simply the ability to glom together groups of pages and treat the groups as reportable entities. The concept is so simple that a lot of people just file it under “uh huh, got it” without thinking about what it can be used for. It’s actually one of the biggest little features available, versatile and powerful.

Regular Expressions are not a big deal. If you’ve already mastered the asterisk (*) wildcard, extending that skill to regular expressions will take about two minutes. At least, it will take that long for the baby version of regular expressions that will get you through about 99.99% of your WebTrends needs.