Site Archiver

Site Archiver

The Site Archiver is a fundamental component of the version 6 architecture. It underlies many of the features in the Pro Client application, such as the ability to view time splits in the Navigation Report. By archiving your website at a given time, you can view your web statistics in the Navigation Report with the version of the site that actually existed at that time.

How Does It Work?

When it is started, the Site Archiver acts as a web browser to pull in the pages of your site. It does not actually crawl your site by following links; rather it goes through the list of previously analyzed pages and looks up each one it finds. The Site Archiver captures the HTML document along with any embedded images, JavaScript files (.JS), stylesheets (.CSS), and Flash files (.SWF). All of these files are stored in a compressed archive that the Pro Client can access at any time.

To archive your website one time, simply go to the Site Archiver section of the Reporting Engine Administrator, select the dataset you want to archive, and click Start. You will see thumbnail images and the URLs of your website displayed as the Site Archiver loads the files. In fact, you might even hear Flash animations begin to play as they are loaded by the archiver! You can stop the Site Archiver at any point in the process by clicking the Stop button. When you click Start, the archiver will pick up where it left off.

Scheduled Archiving

To Schedule Regular Archives of Your Website:

Choose Scheduled Task Manager from the Reporting Engine Administrator menu

Select Current Tasks | New Archive Task.

Give the archive a meaningful name, such as the name of the dataset followed by the date of the archive.

Select a dataset to be archived.

Choose a frequency: daily, weekly, or monthly.

Select the time of day to perform the archive.

Select the day of the week (for weekly archives) or the date of the month (for monthly archives).

Click Submit. The archive will run on the next scheduled date.