You have to type in administrative password, set during installation, to enter the system. If the password is not correct, you will be returned back to the login form.
CNStats employs PHP sessions for authorization. If you are not allowed to enter statistics page the reason might be incorrectly typed in password or incorrect work of sessions function.
Statistics page comprises of three parts:
Additional menu may vary depending on the report displayed in the Main window, some reports may not have any additional menus.
When you enter the system for the first time, it is strongly recommended to visit "Settings section" and update countries database. You can find information how to do that in description of "Countries" report.
Access to the reports is limited. You must type in your login and password to enter the system. Your login is your E-Mail address, which you provided during CN-Stats purchase and you set your password while installing the system.
If you check "Remember me at this workstation" option, you will not be asked for login and password each time you enter the sytem.
Important: check this option only when working with trusted computers.
These settings may be easily changed in file config.php.
Registration E-Mail:
$STATS_CONF["cnsoftwarelogin"]="your@email.com";
Password:
$STATS_CONF["adminpassword"]="ac4cb488439ad456f4567b8da5f02";
or (less secure):
$STATS_CONF["adminpassword"]=md5("youpassword");
You may turn authorisation off. It may be necessary, if you use your own authorisation system and CN-Stats is working as part of it:
$COUNTER["disablepassword"]="yes";
Prior filters allow ajusting existing reports, examples are below:
Necessary filter may be selected in the bottom part of the report page.
This report shows dynamics of visits at your web-site for a certain period of time. The following periods may be set:
Summarize | Period |
By hours | 1 day |
By days | 44 days |
By weeks | 307 days |
By months | 1308 days |
Hits - number, indicating how many times your web-site pages have been loaded.
Hosts - number of unique IP-addresses, where requests to your web-site have been made from. Several computers behind non-anonymous proxy-server are counted as several hosts.
Users - number of unique visitors at the web-site (number of browsers, to be more specific). Identification is performed by means of cookies. (Correct count of users is performed only if you use graphical counter) (*)
With help of icons "", "
" and "
" you may adjust diagram appearance and average values displayed in diagram.
(*) Function works in testing mode.
This report shows number of visits to web-site pages.
It is possible to add or remove name of a host in the additional menu, for example:
With name of the host:
http://www.cn-software.com/ http://www.cn-software.com/cnstats/ http://cn-software.com/cnstats/ http://www.cn-software.com/cnstats/shots.xhtm http://cn-software.com/
without name of the host:
/ /cnstats/ /cnstats/shots.xhtm
"Full URL" and "Abridged URL" functions it is possible to cut off part of the address line following "?" symbol, for example:
Full URL:
/showtread.php?s=63843AB938CD944ED /showtread.php?s=4058473C9498EF4949 /index.php?page=2 /index.php?page=1 /index.php?page=2&str=gu%3dru
Abridged URL:
/showtread.php /index.php
Entry points are entry pages, where visitors start browsing your web-site.
By clicking "[r]" link you may see all pages, referring to the given entry point.
Exit points are pages, where visitors stop working with your web-site.
This report allows to identify popular domain names of your site, for instance:
http://www.host.ru/ http://forum.host.ru/ http://host.ru/ http://new.host.ru/
This report allows identification of the most popular sections for most web-sites:
/ /cnstats/ /cncat/ /cnsearch_pro/ /download.xhtm
All information following symbol "/" is cut off.
This report contains pages, where visitors have come to your web-site from. In fact, these are pages containing links to your web-site.
By default, new (unique) jumps (new hosts) are displayed. And you can view the full list from the additional menu as well.
By means of special form, located in the bottom part of the report, you can exclude unnecessary pages. Very often these are pages of own site or search systems.
Examples of excluded pages:
http://www.mysite.com http://mysite.com http://search.rambler http://www.google http://www.yandex http://yandex http://sm.aport.ru
This report is similar to "Referrers", it displays domain name of the server instead of full address of the page:
http://www.google.com/ http://www.google.com.tw/ http://www.yahoo.com/ http://www.dmoz.org/
Similar to the report "Referrers", only new web-sites where jumps have been registered from are displayed, and you can view the full list with the help of the.
This series of reports displays list of popular web-sites, stored in the system, where jumps from are performed frequently enough. The sites are divided into three categories:
The fourth report is the sum of values of the above three.
List of web-sites may be edited in the file cnstats/reports/_servers
We do not recommend to add your partners' web-sites to this report, there is a special one for this purpose.
We shall be most grateful if you submit an updated list of popular web-sites at page http://www.cn-software.com/members/support/data.xhtm.
The latest version of this file is available at our official web-site: http://www.cn-software.com/members/download.xhtm
The report allows tracking dynamics of visits from popular servers for the last 150 days.
This report requires prior calculations. If log-table contains data to build such report, you will a "Build Report" button. When you click it, prior calculations will be performed. It may take time.
When rebuilding report only new data will be calculated.
To view report, select necessary servers and click "Update".
You can not select more than three servers.
The report displays a list of search phrases, which refer to your site when used in search systems. All search phrases are in lower case.
By default only search phrases from new hosts are displayed, you can view the full list from additional menu.
List of search phrases is set in the file cnstats/reports/_phrases
We shall be most grateful if you submit an updated list of search phrase at page http://www.cn-software.com/members/support/data.xhtm.
The latest version of this file is available at our official web-site: http://www.cn-software.com/members/download.xhtm
The report displays a list of search links and phrases which are used in search systems to locate your web-site. Unlike the previous report, symbols case does not change, each phrase has name of the search server and link to the page with the search results.
By default, only phrases from new hosts are displayed, you can view the full list from the additional menu.
This report is similar to the series of reports "Jumps from Popular Sites", but in this one you can add your partners in the additional menu.
For example, you exchange links with http://www.linksite.com/, then you add two records to the list of partners:
When more than 5 partners will be recorded in the list, you will be able to evaluate efficiency of cooperation with this or that partner.
This report displays list of pages, jumps from search systems have been performed to. This report helps to evaluate correctness of your texts and understand what pages are frequently found when visitors work with the search systems.
The report displays the following information:
This report displays list of hosts that accessed your web-site during a certain period of time. Report data is sorted by number of requests. The report can be used to evaluate activity of users coming from a certain IP-address or sub-network. For example, you can evaluate activity of your employees or employees of your competitor, though you have to know what IP-addresses belong to them.
Proxy-server is shown in brackets (). By clicking on IP-address you can find out additional information about it - country (*), whois information, and list of pages visited from this IP. Hence, you may follow the visitor's route at your site. "Brief report" is very convenient for that purpose.
(*) A country can be identified only if you had loaded country database, more information about that in Report "Countries".
This report helps to identify number of visits from certain networks. These can be local networks, metropolitan area networks or wide area networks.
List of networks can be created by clicking "List of sub-networks" option of the additional menu. Number of networks added to the list is limited by the length of the mysql query.
This report allows identifying languages, used by your visitors in their operating systems. The language is identified by "Accept-Languages" field of HTTP query. See Report "Accept-Languages".
Report description and its settings hints are available at the official web-site.
Report "Languages by countries" helps to define what languages are supported by your visitors' operating systems depending on the country. This report allows more precise description of your web-site audience.
Heading field User-Agent contains information about user agent which sends a request. This field is used for statistical purposes, tracking protocol errors, and automated identification of user agents. It is not obligatory, nevertheless user agents always have t o include this field in their requests. The field may contain several lines, representing information about name of the software, optional backslash with the note about software version and other software, included in the user agent. According to agreement, software is listed in descending order according to its importance for identification of the application.
Examples:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.23 [en] Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
By means of Accept-Languages field a browser renders language marker in a special form.
The language marker identifies a natural language. Computer languages are not included in the list.
Language marker HTTP syntax and register is the same as identified in RFC 1766. The language marker consists of one or more parts: primary language marker and succession of sub-markers, which can be omitted:
language-tag = primary-tag *( "-" sub-tag ) primary-tag = 1*8ALPHA sub-tag = 1*8ALPHA
Space symbol is not allowed, upper or lower case does not matter. List of language markers is controlled by IANA. Below examples of language markers can be seen:
en, en-US, ru, ru;q=1.0, en;q=0.9
where any two first symbols of the primary mark represent an ISO 639 language abbreviation and first two symbols of the initial sub-marker correspond to the ISO 3166 country code.
This report helps to identify what browsers and what versions of browsers are used by visitors of your web-site.
You can switch display of browsers version on and off in the additional menu.
List of browsers is stored in files cnstats/reports/_browsers (with versions) and cnstats/reports/_browsers1 (without versions). You may add browsers yourself by editing this file.
We shall be most grateful if you submit an updated list of browsers at http://www.cn-software.com/members/support/data.xhtm.
The latest version of these files is available at our official web-site: http://www.cn-software.com/members/download.xhtm
This report displays list of robots which requested your web-site pages. Mostly, these are indexing robots belonging to search systems. You may adjust settings of this report in the additional menu.
Full report contains the following data:
The abridged version of the report contains simple list of robots. If you click on a link, you will be forwarded to the report "Log" with preset filter for User-Agent field.
This report displays what operating systems are installed on computers of users, who attend your web-site most frequently.
List of operating systems is stored in file cnstats/reports/_os. You can add operating systems to the list by editing this file.
We'd appreciate if you submit an updated list of operating system at http://www.cn-software.com/members/support/data.xhtm.
The latest version of this file is available at our official web-site: http://www.cn-software.com/members/download.xhtm
This report shows list of users who have attended your web-site for the last 4 minutes. By means of additional menu you can view detailed or abridged version of this report.
Detailed report contains the following data:
Abridged version:
All visits for a certain period of time are displayed in the log table. By means of additional menu you can view detailed or abridged version of this report.
Detailed report contains the following data:
Abridged version:
This report is technical one and provides with information about CNStats database size. This information will help you to set optimal number of days you may keep statistics for.