web reports
2day.com installs urchin web analytics software from urchin software corporation with every web hosting plan.
urchin is a leading web analytics program that produces accurate results. it is packed with features whilst retaining an easy to use interface.
to access your reports, visit reports.2day.com, enter your web site address (eg www.your-domain.co.nz) and your site ftp password.
alternatively, you can also login using your accountid (eg abc1234s1) and its related password.
once you've logged in you'll be presented with the default report, a daily traffic graph covering the last 7 days. you can select from the many other reports available in the left-hand-side navigation bar.
reports likely to be of most interest are:
traffic > summary
the traffic summary report displays, as you'd expect, a brief summary of the activity on your site in the selected period, it defaults to the last 7 days, or you can choose a single day, or even show a whole year.
many people tend to be interested in total sessions, pageviews, & average length of session.
tracking > top entrances
this report simply shows you which pages your visitors start on when they visit your site, usually they'll start on your front page, but sometimes visitors will come from a search engine, from a bookmark, or from a link on another page, rather than browsing through from your front page.
referrals> top referrals
shows which sites are linking to you, very useful to see where your visitors are finding your site.
referrals> search engines
much the same as the top referrals report, but filtered to only include known search engines.
referrals> top keywords
displays the keywords used when people found your site in search engines.
domains> top domains
shows the domains of people visiting your site, can be used to show, for example, which internet service providers your visitors are using (eg. ihug, xtra, paradise).
urchin tracking module
if you have elected to install the urchin tracking module (utm) on your site, you'll have access to detailed reports on your visitors, including a record of first time visitors, how long between visits for average users, and the total number of unique sessions for a selected period. with utm installed these additional reports are available under users & sessions. the admin guide has more information about installing the utm.
other reports
there are many other reports available through urchin, all of which will help to give you a better over all picture of the popularity of your website. browse through all the reports, there are help pages linked from the bottom of most reports if you find anything you don't completely understand.
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