WebTrends Outsider

Cool data visualization: Geographic Heat Maps

rocky — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:43:18 +0000

Turn long geographic lists from WebTrends reports into wow-level density contour maps with third party software.

Reminder: What the SDC Tag Builder can do for you

rocky — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:27:59 +0000

If you're using anything other than WebTrends' TagBuilder tag to track mailto's, downloads, offsite links, form buttons (and many other things), it's time to review what it does.

Cool Custom Dimension: Banish unneeded prefixes from Referring Sites reports

rocky — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:21:20 +0000

Clean up the Referring Sites report by stripping off unneeded domain prefixes belonging to server clusters or data center IDs.

You need to read this post about Table Limits

rocky — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:07:05 +0000

If you don't know how to check WebTrends table sizes by now, you'll still find out eventually ... the ugly way.

Cool custom dimension: IP addresses

rocky — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:28:46 +0000

First, here’s the obligatory gripe. How is it that WebTrends doesn’t offer IP address as a dimension??? What’s up with that? Second, here’s the obligatory Outsider solution. Make your own IP address dimension, of course! It’s better than the Visitors report because this version will combine into one row all the visitors that have an IP address [...]