How often Urchin 7 stats update

[jennlx]

Hello, I am fairly new to using Urchin 7 and I can't seem to figure out how often Urchin is updating the statistics to its server. Does anyone know the answer or can tell me if there is a way to manually update data? Any thoughts/tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

[Jeff Sturm]

You can update statistics about as often as you'd like, provided new log data is available for Urchin to see.

 

Take a look at the Run/Schedule tab under Profile Settings in the Configuration menu.  You can choose monthly, weekly, daily or hourly, and you can also schedule a time to begin processing logs, whichever schedule period you choose.

 

Or you can click "Run Now" to schedule log processing immediately.  In any case, Urchin will skip portions of log files already processed, provided Log Tracking is enabled in the profile settings.

 

-Jeff

 

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[jennlx]

Thank you for replying with such detailed instructions. If I could just ask one more question: does page query terms (under the content performance tab) count hits? It just says "count" on the top but I'm not quite sure what that means. I am looking for any way to use the data under the page query terms as pageviews, which is the data that I actually need. Thank you in advance!

[Jeff Sturm]

Short answer is, I don’t use that report.  I get my page views by page from the "Top Content" report, and my page names never have query arguments.

 

If your pages look like:

 

/one.html

/two.html

/index.html

 

They should all show up in Top Content with distinct page view counts.  Are you saying you need to count pages with different query terms as distinct pages?  Such as if your page names look like:

 

/display?page=one

/display?page=two

/display?page=index

 

There's an article in the online help that gives clues on how to do this—I'll paste the contents here:

How can I display the full URI including query terms in one report?

In Urchin 6, query patterns are displayed in a special drill-down 'Content Optimization -> Content Performance -> Page Query Terms.' If you prefer to display the full page and query pattern in the 'Top Content' report, you can use the filter below to change the way this data is displayed.

Note: This will increase the processing time for any profile it is applied to. Also, because of the increase in unique page names, your database limit may be exceeded.

Create a new 'Profile Filter' with the following settings:

·         Filter Type: Advanced

·         Filter A: request_stem (AUTO) - Extract A (.*)

·         Filter B: request_query (AUTO) - Extract B (.*)

·         Output to: request_stem (AUTO) - Constructor $A1/$B1

·         Override Output Field: 'Yes'

·         Required Fields: 'Both Fields'

·         Case Sensitive: 'No'

 

It helps if you can explain in more detail what you're trying to do, with examples if possible.  Otherwise I have to guess…

[ActualMetricsdotcom]

Are you using Urchin through your hosting company?  If so, they can tell you the processing frequency.