Advanced

The Advanced section offers you some optional settings that you can apply by turning them On and Off.
See the advanced sreen below.

1. Report Cache:
Logaholic makes a static copy of each report you request. This is to speed up things when you are clicking around in the reports and to avoid repeat queries to the database. However, if caching is irritating you, or you expect your reports to be the latest version; turn it off at 1.

2. Animate Flash Graphs:
If you want to disable the animated effects in the flash bar and pie charts, set this to Off at 2.

3. Reporting Time zone
The Default Local Time Zone equals the system time of the server where Logaholic is installed on. If you want to adjust the Time Zone used when displaying reports for this profile, you can change it at 3.
If you are a Logaholic Live customer the local system time is Europe/Amsterdam, gmt+1, c.e.t.

4. Time zone Correction
If your source data (either server log or tracker collected files) is recored in a different Time Zone than what you have selected in " 3. Reporting Time zone ", your stats may seem "off" a few hours. If you want to correct this, enter the number of hours difference between your selected Time Zone and the Time Zone used where your logs are collected. (example: -5 hours difference, enter -5)

5. Visit Timeout:
Enter the number of minutes before a visitor "session" or "visit" times out. (example: enter 20, at 5. ''' if you want the visit terminated after 20 minutes of inactivity from the visitor).

6. Unique Visitor / ID Method
This setting determines how Logaholic will identify a unique visitor. More information on choosing an identification method can be found in this blog article.
Many has been debated and published on the ideal method of Unique Visitor tracking, it is beyond the scope of this manual to determine what is best for your situation. We limit ourselves here to outlining which methods there are and how they work.

Ip Address: Each computer or network connected to the Internet has an unique Ip number. Identifying on Ip number seems logical, but not all users on the Internet have an Unique Ip number. Many Ip numbers are shared (in connected networks), 1 Computer may have several users (accounts) or the Ip Address may be dynamic, with certain access providers Ip numbers rotate or are pooled amongst a number of different users.

Ip Address and User Agent: This method seems to be more accurate than tracking by Ip only. Each Internet browser is identified by its User Agent, this is sort of a unique Id, for each Browser version out there. However also this method will not be 100% accurate. 1 user can use several browsers.

Cookie based WikiPedia Says: A cookie (also tracking cookie, browser cookie, and HTTP cookie) is a small piece of text stored on a user's computer by a web browser. A cookie consists of one or more name-value pairs containing bits of information such as user preferences, shopping cart contents, the identifier for a server-based session, or other data used by websites. It seems the ulitmate way of Identifying a visitor, however users can delete or set their browser not to accept cookies. Spyware and Virus scan programs detect these cookies and advise to delete, allthough a cookie is harmless.

Fyi. if you select cookie based and the visitor does not eat any, Logaholic automaticly falls back on Ip tracking so there is still a good chance the particular visitor is correctly indentyfied.

7. Exit Click Tracking:
The Exit Clicks Expansion will enable logaholic to track exit clicks (links from your website to another, external domain).

   Installation instructions:

A. Copy the two files (exitclick.php and exclicks.js) in the ExitClicks_Expansion folder

   (find this folder in the root of your Logaholic directory)

to the DOCUMENT ROOT directory of your website

   (i.e ,www.mydomain.com/exitclick.php)

B. Add the following line of code in the <head> section of pages where you want to enable exit click tracking:

   <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="/exclicks.js"></script>

C. Edit the Body tag of the page and add the onmousedown section:

   <body onmousedown="logaholic(event)">

D. Watch your Logaholic stats for ocurrences of /exitclicks.php

Tip: Add this file to your list of Target Files (in your profile settings) to track conversion of external links !

NOTE This script only works if you are using log files. It does not function when using the javascript tracker to collect statistics.