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Category — Under-appreciated Features

Automate your reports with the ODBC driver

The ODBC driver is probably my favorite WebTrends feature.  I still haven’t bothered to use REST because ODBC does everything I want.
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 [...]

September 1, 2011   18 Comments

A salute to Content Groups

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.

August 25, 2011   31 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

Reasons for seeing your own site in Referrer reports … and what you can do about it

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.

January 12, 2009   17 Comments

The fearsome, frabjous* Regular Expression

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.

July 28, 2008   3 Comments