Using smarterstats data mining feature
Falcon's hosting package includes SmarterStats web traffic reporting software. SmarterStats includes a really helpful Data Mining Feature that is used to gather information about a specific file or page.
To access the data mining, log onto your SmarterStats account at stats.falcon-software.com. Once you have logged on, click 'Data Mining' under the Reports menu in the left-hand side navigation. Choose your query from the dropdown list, browse the website for the file you are tracking and click the 'Get Report' button. Some useful queries are:
What is the daily activity that this file gets?
Queries run by the data mining feature allow you to select a single page or resource contained within your website and see the daily activity over time. This type of mining is good to identify trends in the activity of that resource, to see if people are accessing the file more or less than they used to.
What are the referrers of this file?
This query reports the original source of visitors that came into your site (What sites were people on before they hit this file?) that eventually hit the page or file you choose.
Where did people who hit this file enter the site?
This query allows you to select a single page contained within your website and see the top pages used to access the page. This is a particularly useful form of data mining that allows you to track where people are coming from when they access a specific page. For example, if a page is specified in an advertising campaign or marketing campaign, users can see exactly how people are accessing that page, and verify any information that is given by the particular site that contains the advertising.
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