skibum - 11:19 pm on Apr 8, 2002 (gmt 0)

It can be enlightening to expand top pages, single access sessions, top entry and exit pages into the hundreds to determine what is really going on within a site, and if you have the time to crunch through all that stuff. By doing some calculations you can identify the pages most likely to result in longer visits, make some inferences about user behavior.

For a site that has a conversion event, like sales, memebership, newsletter signups, etc...Top paths would seem to be a very valuable table. Does anyone ahve a good way of extracting meaningful data from it?

Often times the conversion event results in a dymanic page being called as the confirmation page, so it's good to know what page that is in the logs and in WT have the table with top dynamic pages (or whatever it is called) extend at least until that page shows up so that an overall conversion rate for the site can be calculated.

A membership site such as WebMasterWorld can probably get MUCH better information about visitor behavior due to the authentication.