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    SiteOrganic Statistics

    SiteOrganic gives you the information you need to track visitors and usage of your Website. Administrators can view several different reports to analyze various aspects of site traffic.

    To view stats For your Website

    1. Go to the Summary Traffic page in the Admin Console by choosing Site Administration > Site Traffic.
    2. The top of the screen allows you filter the start/end dates of your report. Using these dates, you can customize your reports within a certain time frame. NOTE: SiteOrganic stores your site traffic data for a period of one year. If you need to keep data for longer periods of time, you may download your Log Files (see below), or ask Edge Media to change the log file rotation period for your site. However, this may impact your available disk space.
    3. The Summary Report gives you information for the specified dates (in step 2 above), as well as for your Website's entire history.
    4. Use the different tabs to view following reports:

      • Summary: Total User Sessions, Pageviews, Length of Visit, and sessions/pageviews per day.
      • Popular Pages: Bar chart showing the top 25 (or 50 or 200) pages on your Website. This covers only Web pages, not media file streaming or file downloads.   
      • Browsers: Bar chart showing the top Web browsers used by your visitors. Numbers represent Pageviews. Browsers are shown by name and version number. To determine how many people visit your site with Microsoft Internet Explorer, for instance, you will need to add the numbers together for IE 9.0, IE 8.0, etc. 
      • Platforms: Bar chart showing the top Platforms (or Operating Systems) used by your visitors. Numbers represent User Sessions. Platforms are shown by name and version number. 
      • Visitors by Day of Week: Bar chart showing total Pageviews for each day of the week (during the specified period). Use this report to see what your most popular day(s) of the week are.
      • Visitors by Hour: Bar chart showing total Pageviews for each hour of the day. Use this report to see what times during the day your site is busiest.
      • Users: Lists users that have logged in within a specified date range. You can see logins to the public site or the SiteOrganic Admin Console.
      • Downloads: Reports files that have been downloaded via the file download pop-up window (the download MP3 option in the media suite).
    User Sessions
    User Sessions are one of the best ways to measure how many people are visiting your Website. A User Session begins when a user visits a page on your Website. This is often your home page, although there may be other entry points as well. Once the user begins navigating around your site, they are generating multiple Pageviews but not multiple User Sessions. The session will remain active (or "alive") until the user closes his/her browser, logs off his/her computer, or sits idle for extremely long periods of time.

    NOTE: A user session is created anytime a user, device, bot, etc. accesses the website. The total number could be higher than normal because it's being scanned by bots (Google, Yahoo, MSN, spider, etc).

    Pageviews
    A pageview refers to one user viewing a Web page one time and is recorded when a page loads in a browser. If a user views a single page twice, that counts as two pageviews. 

    Downloading Raw Log Files

    To retrieve your raw server log files, go to your Summary Report and click the "Log Files" link. The log files are stored daily, and are in W3C compliant format (server type of Microsoft IIS 6). To retrieve your log files:

    1. Go to the Summary Traffic page in the Admin Console by choosing Site Administration > Site Traffic.
    2. Click the "Log Files" link beneath the first summary report.
    3. You will see the log files (in *.log format) sorted chronologically. Click any link to download the file.