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The web server log contains each file requested by the client machine and served. ClickTracks by default strips out many of these requests including .gif and .jpg files (see Ignore Files for more information on the other file extensions that are excluded).

 

You may find instances where you want ClickTracks to ignore additional file extensions, directories or individual files. The filename exclusion will match any part of a file (without the domain name) and can be used to exclude file types, directories or individual files. Examples:

 

•A page contains an embedded movie. The request for the movie will always appear in the logfile immediately following the HTML page containing it. Each visitor seeing the page will appear from the logfile to see the movie as the next page, obscuring the real following page they may have clicked. In this case you will want to exclude the movie.
•A page is a frameset or contains an iframe. This problem is similar to that above - each visitor will appear to see the sub-frame as the next document. In this case, ClickTracks will automatically add the sub-frames or iframe to the list of files to ignore. See Sites Built With Frames.
•The site contains a forum or other content repository that contains large numbers of pages each of which are seen by a handful of people. The data on these pages is difficult to interpret and can slow down performance of analyzing the rest of the site. The entire forum directory can be excluded.

 

In most cases partial string matching is most useful. It's easy to match all .swf files for example, or everything in the directory /forum/. Sometimes you might want to exclude a file using exact filename matching, for example to exclude /redherring.html but not /directory/redherring.html. To match the exact file name simply place an = sign at the beginning, e.g., =/redherring.html.