Category — Under-appreciated Features

Applies to Software, On Demand (for some extra $$)
Poking around in the WT admin interface you may have noticed many references to the “Visitor History.” Visitor history is used to save information about your users across visits. It enables WebTrends to keep track of and report on nice things like a particular visitor’s lifetime value [...]

WebTrends contains a little-known custom report dimension that will show trends within your reporting period.   Yes, you already get this with the trend graphs.  But this gives you a table — one table row per day of the month in a monthly report period.  Or one row per hour of the day in a daily report.   [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]

Or, “I added a custom report to my profile and it’s not showing up at all!”
WebTrends allows you to make custom reports like crazy, but it’s a big letdown when you create a custom report but fail to find it in the reports after analysis. 
Before you start debugging and questioning your skills at making reports, check [...]