How to filter image hit except some special images in webtrends?

[Napo]

My website is a online sale website. When use open an account, he need do 5 steps. Now, biz want to know the number of each step accessed. We use a speical image for each step, for example, step_1.image will be loaded if user browse step1 page.
I found that the hits number is not correct because there are many image hits be calculated. I try to use hit filter, I want to filter all images except step_1.image, step_2.image. Does webtrends can do this job? Or is there another solution?

Thanks

[cgrantski]

Yes WebTrends can do this. In fact it might be the *only* solution that can pull it off. (Would love to know about others)

I'll do this by example. Suppose the parts of your site that you want to track consist of: all *.html files, *.aspx files, all *.pdf files, and these two *.jpg files: step_1.jpg and step_2.jpg.

You need to set up WebTrends so it only allows in those files. Make a hit filter of the INCLUDE type and enter the following regular expression:

\.html¦\.aspx¦\.pdf¦step_1.jpg¦step_2.jpg

Be sure that the "Regular Expression" box is checked.

Be sure that you apply this filter to your profile and re-analyze old data if need be.

Be sure that WebTrends is set up to treat *.jpg files as PAGES or else those items won't appear in your various pages reports.

You can adapt that regular expression to any combination of file types and file names. The ¦ means "or".

In WebTrends, if you apply an Include filter, you are basically excluding everything except the things that are included.

[Napo]

Thanks.
But my question is that my website is made by IBM portal. There is no html tag in url, how to do it?I don'y want to use SDC for some reason....

[cgrantski]

Do the page files have anything in common, like a directory?

[edited by: cgrantski at 10:14 pm (utc) on April 28, 2008]

[cgrantski]

Yes, SDC would make this easier.

[Napo]

The url like [mysite.com...]
.... is generated by portal .

[cgrantski]

That's not enough information. Here's the basic question: are there some character strings that will match only with the pages you want to report on, without including a lot of images? Will the string /portal/ match only with page files? Or will it also match with all of your image files?

If you can identify the right strings, that will match only with the items you want to report on, then you can build a hit filter that will allow only the right files (pages and certain images) to be reported on. The filter will be a Regular Expression filter and will be the syntax "string-to-match-A¦string-to-match-B¦... string-to-match-x". Then, if you also make sure that all of the files you want to appear in the report are classified as Pages (in the WebTrends setup) you will have everything you want in your reports.

If, instead, you can live with a report that only lists your images, and you manually combine that information with other reports that only list pages, you can just make a new profile that only includes the images you are interested in. Again, you will need an Include type of hit filter applied to just the images profile, and that filter will allow only the images you want to watch. And, again, you will have to tell WebTrends that image files should be reported on as if they are pages (Page File Types settings).

Hope this helps. It can be done, one way or the other. Even with IBM Portal sites.