Watches

A Watch report is a custom report that includes one or more "watches". A "watch" is a set of filters that displays the number of visits meeting criteria you set. For example, you can define a watch report to track visits to your purchase page. This report would include one watch with one page filter listing the URL of your purchase page. When generated, the watch report would display the number of visits that included a request for that URL.

Watches can report the number of visits:

•   That included a request for a given page.

•   That included a request for a given downloadable file.

•   From visitors with a given browser tag

•   From visitors referred by a given referring site

•   From visitors with a given IP address

•   From visitors with an IP address from a given Class C address

Watches can include more than one filter. For example, you can add a "referring URL" filter to the purchase page watch to report the number of visits referred by a given site that included a request for your purchase page.

Watch reports can include more than one watch. For example, you can add a second watch to the watch report for your "Thank you" page. This report would let you compare the number of visits from visitors to your purchase page to the number from those who followed through and purchased your product.

Watches are very powerful marketing tools that let you extract specific data from your web logs. You can, for example, create watches that:

•   Keep track of the number of visits referred from a given remote site that included a download of a given file.

•   Compare how many times visitors view your download page and download a file, and how many times they view the download page but do not download.

•   Check to see how often your competitors visit your Web site.

Note: You must have "Site Admin" rights to create and manage Watches. You create Watches from the Site Admin screen for your Web site.