Selecting date range

Because ClickTracks focuses on present visitor behavior rather than historical trends, you will normally only be interested in the most recent one or perhaps two months' worth of data.

Sometimes you might want to look at an even narrower date range. You might want to see what visitors did on a certain day, for example. Or if you've just had a site redesign, you will want to concentrate on the visitor behavior after the time of the redesign so that ClickTracks' live view of the site will accurately reflect what visitors saw.

You can select a date range you're interested in by clicking the calendar icon on the toolbar and choosing the start and/or end date from the dialog.

The first three options specify a moving time span. As you import new data the start and end date will move in synchronisation with the new data. This simplifies the process of dealing with new data.

'Analyze whole dataset' produces reports for all available data. Naturally this can take longer than for a shorter time span.

'Exact dates' allows you to specify an exact start and end date. Note the date is inclusive, so setting the start and end the same produces a single day of data. Note also that due to server log file generation times, and the time zone of your server relative to ClickTracks, a single day at the beginning of your imported data may be less than 24 hours worth of data.