Adjusting Preferences for Web Statistics Presentation
By default, statistical utility counts and reports the requests for web pages and other files made from your site—by your own web pages. So, when a user's browser requests from your site a single web page that contains references to other files, such as scripts, cascading style sheets, media files, and the like, the statistical utility reports these references to files as if they were visits to your web page. Thus, with the default settings your usage statistics is inaccurate.
You may want to:
- Hide these internal references, and references from other sites.
- Group references from a number of sites, so as to show them as if they originated from a single location.
- Hide direct requests. Direct requests are sent to your web server when users access your site by typing the URL in their browsers.
To hide the internal references or references from other sites:
- Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
- Click the domain name you need.
- Click the
Report icon. - Click the
Web Statistics Preferences icon. - Click the
Hide Entries icon. - In the Entry type drop-down box, leave the Referrer value selected.
- In the Referrer field, type the domain name from which you do not want the referrers shown in web statistics reports.
You can use the '*' wildcard character to specify a part of domain name.
- Click OK.
To unhide references:
- Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
- Click the domain name you need.
- Click the
Report icon. - Click the
Web Statistics Preferences icon. All hidden entries will be presented in a list. - Select the check boxes corresponding to the entries you wish to unhide and click
Remove Selected. - Confirm the operation and click OK.
To group references from a specific site:
- Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
- Click the domain name you need.
- Click the
Report icon. - Click the
Web Statistics Preferences icon. - Click the Grouped referrers tab.
- Click the
Group Referrers icon. - Type the group name that you wish to be shown for all referrers on the specific site.
- In the Referrer input box, specify the site (domain name) from which all referrers should be grouped.
You can use the '*' wildcard character to specify a part of domain name.
- Click OK.
To ungroup references from a specific site:
- Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
- Click the domain name you need.
- Click the
Report icon. - Click the
Web Statistics Preferences icon. - Click the Grouped referrers tab. All referrer group names will be presented in a list.
- Select the check box corresponding to the required group name and click
Remove Selected. - Confirm the operation and click OK.
To hide direct requests:
- Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
- Click the domain name you need.
- Click the
Report icon. - Click the
Web Statistics Preferences icon. - Click the
Hide Entries icon. - In the Entry type drop-down box, select the Direct request value.
- Click OK.
To unhide direct requests:
- Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
- Click the domain name you need.
- Click the
Report icon. - Click the
Web Statistics Preferences icon. All hidden entries will be presented in a list. - Select the check box corresponding to the Direct request entry and click
Remove Selected. - Confirm the operation and click OK.