LiveStats is far more than just another log analyzer. It analyzes web site traffic in real-time and generates "LiveStats" reports in an easy to use web interface. Over and above the standard traffic reports, LiveStats includes many specialty reports that can be queried live, 24/7.

With LiveStats tracking your web sites you'll know:

• How many users visit your web site every day, week, or month.
• Who are they.
• Where they come from.
• What pages they enter on, exit from and visit longest.
• How today is shaping up.
• Who's on right now.
• What part of your site is most popular.
• What search engines people are using to find your site.
• What keywords people use to find your site.

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The first page you land on will have a "Who's On" report - showing all activity on your site at this current moment.

LiveStats can generate over 50 reports you can use to help you target your marketing effort. Most of these reports have zoom views that show more detailed information. These reports give you insight into the behavior of customers and potential customers such as what keywords they used to reach your site, which search engines or referrers referred them, and how long they stayed.

You can generate a report for any day, week, month, or user-specified date range (up to 93 days) available in the database for this Virtual Server.

Reports have from two to eight tables or graphs—such as a 3D Stacked Graph, 2D pie chart, or trend analysis table—you can use to customize your reports.

After you have customized and generated a report, you can have LiveStats format it for printing and then print it from your web browser.

HOW TO

On the left is a tool bar to view different reports. At the top left is a calendar. After you select your report type, use the calendar to narrow in on a particular day, week or month for that report.

Choosing a date range
You can generate reports for any period kept in your site's database. You can choose a day, week, or month to report on, or specify a date range by selecting a start and end date.

The LiveStats screen includes an interactive calendar that lets you select the date or date range for a report. The calendar displays days with statistics in a darker grey, and the selected days in yellow. Days before the start of the database and after the end are a lighter grey, and are not selectable.

To view the previous month, click the minus (-) sign to the right of the calendar. To view the next month, click the plus (+) sign.

To select a Day:
Click a day from the calendar.

To select a Week:
1. Point to the right arrow beside the week you want.
If there are statistics available for the corresponding week, the arrow changes to a red circle.
2. Click the red circle to select the week.

To select a Month:
Click the down arrow to the left of the month name.

To select a Date Range:
1. Click Range at the top left corner of the calendar. LiveStats prompts you to select the start day.
2. Click the first day of the date range. LiveStats prompts you to select the end day.
3. Scroll forward if necessary to display the month with the end date.
4. Click the last day of the date range.

Generating a report

To display a report:

1. Point to the report category you want.
2. Click the report from the submenu.

Customizing a report

The customization of reports allows you to choose how the information included in a report is displayed - what graphs, what tables, and whether or not there will be help.

To customize a report:

1. Select 'Customize' from the top menu of the report. This will open the report customization interface.

2. Drag and drop the report elements that you want from the left column into the right column.

3. Put the elements in the order that you would like to see them displayed.

4. If at any time you want to start over, select either 'Erase Layout' to start with an empty right column, or 'Load Defaults' to revert to the LiveStats default layout.

5. Once you are satisfied with the customization, click 'Save' to return to the report interface and see your report.

The customization is performed on a per report basis so that you can have different layouts for each different report.
 

Printing a report

A non-menued version of each report is available for easy printing.

To print a report

1. Select the report and time range that you want to print.

2. Customize the report so that it includes the elements that you feel are necessary.

3. Select the 'Print' option from the top menu of the report. This will open the printable report.

4. You must tell your web browser to print the report.

Filtering a report

The elements displayed in many reports can be filtered based on keywords. This allows on pages within a certain directory, or referrals from a specific domain to be shown quickly without any special configuration.

To filter a report

1. Select the report and time range that you want to filter.

2. Enter your filter keywords in the 'Filter Report by Keywords' box and press 'Search'.



3. Only elements that match the keywords will be included in the report.

Filters do not affect the information stored in the database. They are used only to display the one filtered report. All the values in all the report elements are based on the results of the filters.

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