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| The Problem: |
You see in the statistics that a bunch of hits
came from Spain yesterday. Want to know what they were looking at? |
| The Sawmill Solution: |
No problem! Just click Spain to zoom in on Spain hits,
switch to the "Pages" report, and voila -- you see
all the pages hit by people from Spain, in two clicks. |
| Competitions Solution: |
Big problem! The competition can't do that; they'll
show you how many hits you got from Spain, or how many people hit each page,
but they can't tell you this kind of detailed information without reprocessing
the logs with a special set of filters. Sawmill does this sort of cross-referencing
instantaneously and on-the-fly, so you don't have you spend your time and
energy reconfiguring every time you want specialized information. Even more
importantly, your customers will be able to get this kind of information
without your help, which means less tech support, and lower costs. |
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| The Problem: |
You're trying to see if a particular page got
a hit yesterday. The statistics show the top twenty pages, but you want
to see all the pages; the page you're looking for got only one hit,
or none, so it'll be way down in the ranking. |
| The Sawmill Solution: |
No problem! Just chose "show all rows"
from the menu above the table, and the table will expand to show all the pages that ever got any
hits, even if there are 500,000 of them. |
| Competitions Solution: |
Big problem! It's back to reconfigure again;
the competition shows the top ten, twenty, or maybe hundred, but if what
you want isn't there (or if you want fewer rows than you see there), you
have to go back and mess with the configuration options. Sawmill lets you
do this sort of thing on the fly, using links, menus, and buttons that are
conveniently placed right there with the statistics you're looking at. |
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| The Problem: |
You want to see which paths visitors took through
the site, click-by-click. At each page along the way you want to see which
visitors left, and where the other ones went next. |
| The Sawmill Solution: |
No problem! Sawmill's "session paths"
report lets you see the complete click-by-click details of every
visit. Starting with the entry pages, you can click to expand any part of
the data, to see whatever you need to see about your visitors and the paths
they took. |
| Competitions Solution: |
Big problem! The best the competition can do
is show you the "top paths," the ten or twenty complete paths
that were most often taken. Sawmill shows you that, and infinitely more.
Looking at the "paths through the site" view, you can see the
broad patterns of your traffic flow in ways that a static "top paths"
report can't touch. |
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| The Problem: |
You want to see a graph of the traffic of hits
for last November. No, make that the bandwidth for November. Actually let's
see just November 16th. Wow, look at that spike around 3pm; where did all
those hits come from? |
| The Sawmill Solution: |
No problem! Sawmill can do all this and much
more. This is how you'll think when you use Sawmill. Look at the November
hits graph, wonder about the bandwidth; choose "bandwidth bar graph"
from the menu and bam! You've got another graph there showing bandwidth
where there used to be just a hits graph. See a lot of hits on the 16th?
Click the November 16 bar in the graph and the graph changes to show only
traffic on November 16, hour-by-hour. Wondering where that spike came from
on some particular hour? Three clicks and you can see the traffic for that
hour only, broken down by domain, so you can see who it was. Or broken down
by page, so you can see what they looked at. Or broken down by referring
URL or domain, so you can see which ad, search engine, or web page brought
you all that traffic! Your customers will love the flexibility of
Sawmill. |
| Competitions Solution: |
Big problem! Forget it. The competition can't
do anything like that. The static reports they give you are the beginning
and the end of your statistics; you can't zoom in arbitrarily, cross-reference,
change the type of data being displayed, or show/hide graphs and data columns.
Sawmill lets you do all that and more. |
Who is coming to your site -- the domains they're coming from and
their login username (if you have logins on your site).
