All In A Statcounter Weekend...

[webmaster]

ALL IN A STATCOUNTER WEEKEND...

Friday:
We got a suggestion from SanjayK.

'...I would like a Came From on a popular page drill-down...'

Sunday:
Guess what? You got it!

More info:
This is THE BOMB. Now we can see exactly what sources are sending all you folks to us to sign up with StatCounter – all on one page! We love it! We hope you do too.

Go to Popular Pages and click the drill down icon to the left of the web page you are interested in.

For example, let’s say that you want people to make a purchase on your site. And let’s say that successful purchases result in the visitor hitting the page purchase_made.html – you want to know what referral sources are sending people to this page i.e. who is your biggest revenue generator?

Someone might be sending you LOADS of traffic...but are these visits being turned into purchases, sign-ups, transactions??

How do you find out this CRUCIAL information??

By using our NEW FEATURE – that’s how!

Click the Came From Drill Down option and there you go.

NOW you can see what URLs are sending the people who successfully, for example, make a purchase.

So we worked all weekend...but now you’ve got another new feature!

Keep the suggestions coming folks...

Cheers Sanjay!!

The StatCounter Team

[Jim_Westergren]

Great!

I like it a lot. But how to exclude search engines from total came from?

Thanks.

[aspirin]

Great!

I like it a lot. But how to exclude search engines from total came from?

Thanks.


good question.

Is it possible statcounter masters ?

[alps07]

Yeah Thanks__________________________

[webado]

Ehmmmm ... great... I think ... yeah, it must be.

But I don't seem to have the IP addresses of the visitors who came from wherever they came from .... what am I missing?

[Sharron]

I haven't even managed to find this thing, What am I missing?

[moneywatch]

if you can follow the OUTGOING links.

I have lots of affiliate links but i DON'T know which visitors clicked them (from where they came and what search word they used)

Implement this and you have one more paid member :D

Bye,
moneywatch

ps. I am using http://www.mybloglog.com/ but they too don't know what visitors clicked what.

p.p.s I really can't see why is this so difficult to implement? I just want to see WHOLE visitor path and outgoing link.

[palconit]

Good update!

[webado]

if you can follow the OUTGOING links.

I have lots of affiliate links but i DON'T know which visitors clicked them (from where they came and what search word they used)

Implement this and you have one more paid member :D

Bye,
moneywatch

ps. I am using http://www.mybloglog.com/ but they too don't know what visitors clicked what.

p.p.s I really can't see why is this so difficult to implement? I just want to see WHOLE visitor path and outgoing link.

It's very simple why it cannot be done: when somebody clicks a link they go away from a page which is only on their computer, and it does not communicate with the original server where the page is stored. The action of clicking to go to another page results in an access to a server when that other page gets loaded. That's the only time something can be logged: at the new place where something happens.

or you are asking to know where epiople went after they elft yrou site: no can do.

Or rather Statcounter cannot do it. You can - sort of - with the sticky at the top of the help forum.

If you feel like adding onlick even handlers on each link you have maybe you can capture some information that way as well - but you need to moduify your web pages a lot more than just by adding a single piece of code.

[aspirin]

I have lots of affiliate links but i DON'T know which visitors clicked them (from where they came and what search word they used)

sorry, may be I'm reading your post backwards, but on my statcounter it shows me where the visitors came from and the search term they used....it is displayed in most in-bound search URLs. :oops:

as for who clicks on the affiliate links to your site ? ...may be the affiliate software logs may have more info on that. But I don't know enough about it.

....well, if they buy something you will know WHO clicked on the link for sure. :) ;-) ...as a long as you have a SC code on all your pages.

[freemovies]

thanks for the new feature.
it is a very interesting and useful feature.

[jsyedali]

Really it all looks great with so many features.

We would love to see more such new features in future.

Thank You.

[cnun]

this feature is remarkable ! thanks a lot :-D

[xtom]

Nice feature, thanks!

[bugmenot]

Is it only for the paid members? I am a free member, but can't seem to find "Came From Down Under" option.

[webado]

It's from Popular pages. When you drill down on an entry it gives several options.

[joshenry]

The "came from" for the popular pages is a nice feature, however I noticed that when you use the regular "came from" (in the left-hand Statistics column) you now get the same reading as the last popular page "came from" that you did.

Problem is that once you do a "came from" on a popular page, you now can't get a "came from", (or a "recent came from" -- which removes the popular search engines from the list), for the entire site. It just displays data for the last popular page you viewed. In my case, my site contains around 40 pages, so I'd have to do a "came from" on each page ...not practical.

Workaround: Clearing the cache and history, doesn't help, but if you close StatCounter, and log-on again, it resets it so that you can get a "came from", (and "recent came from"), for the entire site ...providing you don't first do a "came from" for a particular popular page. This is not a great big deal, but (IMHO) it is a bug that should be addressed.

[Arne]

Looking at "came from" for popular pages, you have this info and option clearly dispayed on the page, har to miss ;)
FILTER: Only include visitors who visited the page:
'http://www.yourdomainhere.com/popularpage.html' [REMOVE]
If you gop from popular page "came from" to the regular came from in the left hand menu, tha same option appears there. Clicking on [REMOVE] will remove the filter and give you "came from" for all pages again.

[richards1052]

This may be a feature that Sanjay wanted & I'm glad it's useful for him. But the way it works for me screws up what I need fr. Statcounter. Either there is a bug in implementation or the new default behavior is just plain annoying. I've posted about this issue here (http://forum.statcounter.com/vb/showthread.php?t=25609).

I'll republish what I wrote here:If I go to Popular Pages & click on the icon for a particular pg & then click on 'Came From,' SC automatically applies a filter to the results & restricts them to showing only those who came to this particular pg. of my site. Under no circumstances (& no matter what other alternate path I take to go to Came From) can I seem to get Came From results for ALL my pgs. at once (which USED to be the default behavior). I've also tried emptying my cache to see if this would free things up. It hasn't.

The ONLY way I can see Came From results that are unfiltered (& which present results fr. all my pgs.) is by going directly to Came From w/o first visiting Popular Pgs. Since I wrote this I've discovered the way to undo this behavior, which is to click "Remove" to remove the filter. What SC should do is allow ea. user to define how they want this filter to work. If people like me only want to use this new feature once in a while (or never) we shouldn't be forced to click on Remove every time we want to see results that are not filtered & by individual pg. results. In effect, you've just added another click to the process of getting results the way I want them.

I hope this makes sense.

[joshenry]

Looking at "came from" for popular pages, you have this info and option clearly dispayed on the page, har to miss ;)

Thanks Arne, You'd think it would've been "hard to miss", but I did, in fact, not notice it ...probably because I never had to use that option before.

[richards1052]

Looking at "came from" for popular pages, you have this info and option clearly dispayed on the page, har to miss JosHenry & I both missed it though. Other users out there might be struggling w. the same issue but not reporting it here. It would be helpful if the Remove link was pointed out in instructions on how this feature operates.

[dadums]

Hey Sanjay, (and team)

I'd like to make a suggestion that would make life easier (at least for me). For the past few years now I've tried using the blocking cookie, but it seems to cause problems for me, and I end up removing the cookie. Then I just cut and paste my IP Address to the blocking window under the Edit setting for each project. I do this daily for several projects, and several times if I reboot which changes the IP.

My suggestion is this, since you sense for and show the users current IP, can't you just automatically tack it to the IP blocking window, so all the user needs to do is save the changes. It would eliminate the cut and paste process. Just one click and your done.

Thank you for such a fantastic service.

Joe

[webado]

There's no separate IP blocking window. It's part of Edit project settings.
Not to say it couldn't have been done that way, but I suspect it's historical - the IP needs to be stored with the particular project's settings, whereas the cookie is on the user's computer, no update of the database is done when you enable blocking by cookie.