Default Report

Animal Science Web Site

The User Profile by Regions graph identifies the general location of the visitors to your Web site. The General Statistics table includes statistics on the total activity for this web site during the designated time frame.

This section identifies the most popular web site pages and how often they were accessed. The average time a user spends viewing a page is also indicated in the table.

This section identifies the most popular file downloads for the site. If an error occurred during the transfer, that transfer is not counted.

This section identifies the top locations of the visitors to the site by country. The country of the user is determined by the suffix of their domain name. Use this information carefully because this information is based on where the domain name of the visitor is registered, and may not always be an accurate identifier of the actual geographic location of this visitor (for example, while a vast majority of .com domain names are from the United States, there is a small minority of domain names that exist outside of the United States.)

This section identifies the companies or organizations that accessed the site the most often.

This section provides a breakdown by types of organizations (.com, .net, .edu, .org, .mil, and .gov.) This information can only be displayed if reverse DNS lookups have been performed.

This section outlines general server activity, comparing the level of activity on weekdays and weekends. The Average Number of Users and Hits on Weekdays are the averages for each individual week day. The Average Number of Users and Hits for Weekends groups Saturday and Sunday together. Values in the table do not include erred hits.

This section helps you understand the bandwidth requirements of the site by indicating the volume of activity in kilobytes transferred. The table provides various measures of activity by unit of time for the report period (the unit of time depends on the amount of time covered by the report, and will be the day in most cases).

This section shows the activity for each day of the week for the report period (i.e. if there are two Mondays in the report period, the value presented is the sum of all hits for both Mondays.) Values in the table do not include erred hits.

This table shows the total number of hits for the site, how many were successful, how many failed, and calculates the percentage of hits that failed. It may help you in determining the reliability of the site.

Following are definitions for terms used in this report and throughout the World-Wide Web in general. These terms are also common to the WebTrends analysis tool.

Glossary
Ad	A graphic or a banner on a web page that when clicked on, takes the visitor to another site.
Ad Clicks	A click on an advertisement on a web site which takes a user to another site, it is referred to as an ad click.
Ad Views	A web page that presents an ad. Once the visitor has viewed an ad, he/she can click on it (see Ad Click). There may be more than one ad on an ad view.
Authentication	Technique by which access to Internet or Intranet resources requires the user to identify himself or herself by entering a username and password.
Bandwidth	Measure (in kilobytes of data transferred) of the traffic on the site.
Browser	A program used to locate and view HTML documents (Netscape, Mosaic, Microsoft Explorer, for example.)
Click through rate	Percentage of users who click on a viewed advertisement. This is a good indication of the effectiveness of this ad.
Client	The browser (see above) used by a visitor to a Web site.
Client Errors	An error occurring due to an invalid request by the visitor's browser. Client errors are in the 400-range. See "Return Code" definition.
Company Database	The database installed and used by WebTrends to look up the company name, city, state and country corresponding to a specific domain name.
Cookies	Persistent Client-State HTTP Cookies are files containing information about visitors to a web site (e.g., user name and preferences). This information is provided by the user during the first visit to a Web server. The server records this information in a text file and stores this file on the visitor's hard drive. When the visitor accesses the same web site again, the server looks for the cookie and configures itself based on the information provided.
Domain Name	The text name corresponding to the numeric IP address of a computer on the Internet (i.e., www.webtrends.com).
Domain Name Lookup	The process of converting a numeric IP address into a text name (for example, 204.245.240.194 is converted to www.webtrends.com).
Filters	A means of narrowing the scope of a report or view by specifying ranges or types of data to include in or exclude.
Forms	An HTML page which passes variables back to the server. These pages are used to gather information from users. Also referred to as scripts.
FTP	File Transfer Protocol is a standard method of sending files between computers over the Internet.
GIF	Graphics Interchange Format is an image file format commonly used in HTML documents.
Hit	An action on the Web site, such as when a user views a page or downloads a file.
Home Page	The main page of a Web site. The home page provides visitors with an overview and links to the rest of the site. It often contains or links to a Table of contents for the site.
Home Page URL	The local path or Internet URL to the default page of the Web site for which WebTrends reports will be generated.
HTML	Hyper Text Markup Language is used to write documents for the World Wide Web to specify hypertext links between related objects and documents.
HTTP	Hyper Text Transfer Protocol is a standard method of transferring data between a Web server and a Web browser.
IP Address	Internet Protocol address identifying a computer connected to the Internet.
Log File	A file created by a web or proxy server which contains all of the access information regarding the activity on that server.
Page Views	Also called Page Impressions. Hit to HTML pages only (access to non-HTML documents are not counted).
Platform	The operating system (i.e. Windows 95, Windows NT, etc.) used by a visitor to the site.
Protocol	An established method of exchanging data over the Internet.
Referrer	URL of an HTML page that refers to the site.
Return Code	The return status of the request which specifies whether the transfer was successful and why. Possible "Success" codes are: 200 = Success: OK 201 = Success: Created 202 = Success: Accepted 203 = Success: Partial Information 204 = Success: No Response 300 = Success: Redirected 301 = Success: Moved 302 = Success: Found 303 = Success: New Method 304 = Success: Not Modified Possible "Failed" codes are: 400 = Failed: Bad Request 401 = Failed: Unauthorized 402 = Failed: Payment Required 403 = Failed: Forbidden 404 = Failed: Not Found 500 = Failed: Internal Error 501 = Failed: Not Implemented 502 = Failed: Overloaded Temporarily 503 = Failed: Gateway Timeout
Server	A computer that hosts information available to anyone accessing the Internet.
Server Error	An error occurring at the server. Web server errors have codes in the 500 range.
Spiders	An automated program which searches the internet.
Suffix (Domain Name)	The three digit suffix of a domain can be used to identify the type of organization. Possible "Suffixes" are: .com = Commercial .edu = Educational .int = International .gov = Government .mil = Military .net = Network .org = Organization
User Agent	Fields in an extended Web server log file identifying the browser and platform used by a visitor.
URL	Uniform Resource Locator is a means of identifying an exact location on the Internet. For example, http://www.webtrends.com/html/info/default.htm is the URL which defines the use of HTTP to access the Web page Default.htm in the /html/info/ directory on the WebTrends Corporation Web site). As the previous example shows, a URL is comprised of four parts: Protocol Type (HTTP), Machine Name (webtrends.com), Directory Path (/html/info/), and File Name (default.htm).
User Session	A session of activity (all hits) for one user of a web site. A unique user is determined by the IP address or cookie. By default, a user session is terminated when a user is inactive for more than 30 minutes. This duration can be changed from General panel in the Options, Web Log Analysis dialog. Synonym: Visit.
View,Page	Each request for a particular web page which displays an ad. Also referred to as an impression.
Visit	Commonly called User Session. All activity for one user of a web site. By default, a user session is terminated when a user is inactive for more than 30 minutes.

This report was generated by WebTrends.