This should be easy

Using filters to report on content viewed

[fom2001uk]

This is a WebTrends problem.

I'm trying to analyse how users view the content of a site. This site has 6 main sections (top level pages) which themselves have several sub-pages. The sub-pages have query-based URLs (section1.asp?sub-page1, section1.asp?sub-page2, etc)

I want to know for each main section, how many people came in to the top level page, followed by a breakdown of how many of those visited each of the sub-pages within that section.

I know I'll have to use filters to achieve this, but I don't know which ones, and how to combine them.

This should be easy, but I'm coming up blank. Can anyone help?

[fom2001uk]

Okay, I just tried using a referrer filter as follows :

Include only data where (one of the top level pages) is the referrer.

But this doesn't work in WebTrends because it won't allow you to list an internal page as a referrer.

Now I'm really stuck!

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fom2001uk

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[fom2001uk]

Thanks, but I already tried them. They don't give nearly enough details, and support won't answer any queries unless you've signed up for their support agreement (which we haven't).

[Mikkel Svendsen]

You will need what was formaly known as the Enterprise version (I think they call it Analysis Suite now). In that version you have parameter analysis and thats what you need for this.

You can't use referrers as you will only have a referrrer in the first hit to the subsection - and only for the users that pass referrers.

With the two dimensional parameter analysis you can set one parameter to be your section ID and another one can be the page ID, so you get this double-table showing section by section and page by page how many visitors you got.

- But you need one of the "big" WT-versions :)

[fom2001uk]

Sadly, we have Webtrends "Lite" (Log Analyzer 7 - standard) :-(

I'm now thinking it's probably cheaper to get WebTrends Live, even just for one website.

What do you think?

[fom2001uk]

Hang on, what's this "URL parameter" option within the filters tab? Is this the same thing? If not, why does it tell you all about using it within the Help section of a version which doesn't offer it?