Setting Preferences for Web Statistics Presentation

For each domain of yours you can customize the graphical reports presented by Webalizer so that they:

Referrers are the URLs that lead a user to your site or caused the browser to request something from your server. The vast majority of requests are made from your own URLs, since most HTML pages contain links to other objects such as graphics files. If one of your HTML pages contains links to 10 graphic images, then each request for the HTML page will produce 10 more hits with the referrer specified as the URL of your own HTML page. Normally you would want to hide the referrers from your site. Hiding them does not mean they are not counted; they are merely not displayed in the top-rankings.

You can group referrers so that all referrers coming from a specific site or number of sites will be represented by a single entry in the web statistics reports.

Direct requests are non-referrers. They are sent to a web server when users type URLs in address bars of their browsers.

Hiding and Unhiding Referrers

To hide referrers,

  1. Go to the specific domain’s administration screen, click Report, and then select the Web Statistics Preferences icon.
  2. Click the Hide Entries icon.
  3. In the Entry type drop-down box, leave the Referrer value selected.
  4. 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.
  5. Click OK.

To unhide referrers,

  1. Go to the specific domain’s administration screen, click Report, and then select the Web Statistics Preferences icon. All hidden entries will be presented in a list.
  2. Select the check boxes corresponding to the entries you wish to unhide and click Remove Selected.
  3. Confirm the removing and click OK.

Hiding and Unhiding Direct Requests

To hide direct requests,

  1. Go to the specific domain’s administration screen, click Report, and then select the Web Statistics Preferences icon.
  2. Click the Hide Entries icon.
  3. In the Entry type drop-down box, select the Direct request value.
  4. Click OK.

To unhide direct requests,

  1. Go to the specific domain’s administration screen, click Report, and then select the Web Statistics Preferences icon. All hidden entries will be presented in a list.
  2. Select the check box corresponding to the Direct request entry and click Remove Selected.
  3. Confirm the operation and click OK.

Grouping and Ungrouping Referrers

To group referrers from a specific site,

  1. Go to the specific domain’s administration screen, click Report, and then select the Web Statistics Preferences icon.
  2. Select the Grouped referrers tab.
  3. Click the Group Referrers icon.
  4. Type the group name that you wish to be shown for all referrers on the specific site.
  5. 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.
  6. Click OK.

To ungroup referrers from a specific site,

  1. Go to the specific domain’s administration screen, click Report, and then select the Web Statistics Preferences icon.
  2. Select the Grouped referrers tab. All referrer group names will be presented in a list.
  3. Select the check box corresponding to the required group name and click Remove Selected.
  4. Confirm the operation and click OK.