Referrer Summary
To display the Referrer Summary for a specified period of time, highlight Referrer Summary in the first list box, select the desired time period in the second list box and click on the Enter button. The Referrer Summary presents the Referrer, the Last Referral and the number of Referrals (with the percentage of total Referrals) for the top ten referrers to a web site for the selected time period. To view the next ten referrers, click on the highlighted "Next 10" located at the end of the report. To view the last ten referrers, click on the highlighted "Last 10" located at the end of the report. To view the previous ten referrers, click on the highlighted "Previous 10" located at the end of the report. To view the first ten referrers, click on the highlighted "First 10" located at the end of the report. To view all of the referrers, click on the highlighted number of total referrers ("Referrers represented: 10 out of xxx", where xxx = Total Referrers). To generate a report containing only a specific referrer, enter the referrer (yahoo.com for example) into the text box in the filter tool at the bottom of the report and select from the list boxes to create the request: "Show all referrers [that] [end with] [referrer]" and click on the Enter button. To generate a report that excludes specific referrers, enter the referrer into the text box in the filter tool at the bottom of the report and select from the list boxes to create the request: "Show all referrers [that do not] [end with] [referrer]" and click on the Enter button. Note that in the above examples users can also use the filter tool to include or exclude referrers that either [match], [start with] or [contain] the specified text entered in the text box. To get detailed information about the specific referrers from a referrer group (for example, Yahoo.com), click on the corresponding highlighted referrer. This Referrer Breakdown contains information about the Referrer, the Last Referral and the number of Referrals. If the referrer was a search engine or directory, the keywords that the users searched with will be presented in parentheses after the Referrer. By clicking on the corresponding highlighted Referrer in the Referrer Breakdown, users can view the actual referring page. Once again, if referring page was a search engine, users can view the keywords that the visitors used to search for the web site, as well as the results of the search that these visitors made. To get detailed information about each referral, click on the corresponding highlighted number of Referrals. This Visit Breakdown contains information about the Date and time of the view, the Length of Visit, the Host, the Referrer the Entry and Exit Pages, the Browser, the Platform and the number of Views per visit for the specified referrer. |