Dynamic Pages
Dynamic Webpage
A page generated, on the fly, exists only when requested by a visitor. These Dynamic pages can be made in .asp, .php, coldfusion etc ..
Mostly these pages, or actually the page components, are stored in a database, that will, on the fly, join these components and serve it to a vistior as a web page. These systems are often referred to as CMS, Content Management System.
Problem with these systems is that the Url's they produce are mostly un readable and hard to distinguish from one an other, for Logaholic these Url's are also hard to distinguish. To make Logaholic report something readable you will have to complete the Dynamic Pages form.
Dynamic Pages Configuration:
Some dynamic pages in your site might have important parameters that get passed to the script (CMS) that specifies which content is shown. If this is the case, you might see URLs on your site that look like something like "/index.php?pageid=aboutus" and "/index.php?pageid=order". If that's happening, then the "index.php" part of the URL isn't really very interesting, but instead you'll want to keep track of all traffic that comes through with a certain "pageid". Different scripts and websites use different file names (/index.php in our example, but can well be index.asp or anypagename.php) and parameter names (pageid in our example), so there's no way Logaholic can know which pages and parameters are important to you unless you configure that. "Dynamic Pages" section is where you configure those.
Make sure each file name you enter here includes the full path, and ALWAYS start with a slash / .
If you're not sure if you have dynamic pages that work this way, leave this section blank. You can always come back and configure it later.
You can also use this section if you need to configure Target Pages (KPI's) that contain a parameter
Example: If the page that indicates a sale on your site looks something like this: /shop.php?checkout=success.
Once the page and parameter are configured here, you can add the full page/parameter line to your KPI's.
Tip: If all your webiste content is indeed served through one page name (like the example above) you may want to know that this is not an optimal way to organize your site, search engines prefer more readable url's for example. Luckily, most good CMS systems now allow you to use url rewriting techniques to make the page names more understrandable. Use those features for the best result, also in Logaholic. If you have url rewiting enabled, you won't have to configure this section.
