Tracking

Tweaking website traffic data collection

The Tracking node contains functionality related to the collection of data about website traffic.

The settings available are:

Setting	Use	Note
Enable tracking	Check to enable tracking
Session expiration	The time in minutes the visitor has to be inactive before a new tracking session starts
Returning visitor expiration	The time in days between visits before the visitor is tracked as a returning
Do not track personal information	Anonymize IP address by removing last digit: 192.168.1.* to comply with GDPR requirements
Do not track visits with DNT header	Skip tracking of visitors where DNT (Do Not Track) header is set to 1 to respect user preferences
Tracking level	Sets which visits to track depending on their classification as a real visitor VS a bot visitor based on user agent detection	Choose between: Do not track 'accept=/' header, Do not track 'accept=close' header or Do not track where header count <= (Min header count)
Min header count	The minimum required number of headers before the visitor is classified as a real visitor	Most "real" request contains at least 5 headers, so requests with fewer headers are typically bots or other non-human actors
Do not track internal IP addresses	Skips tracking of visitors with IP addresses specified in internal IP addresses
Internal IP addresses	List of IP's not to track	E.g. 192.168.1.255, 192.168.2.1 - 192.168.2.90
Store ignored visits	For debugging - will track all visits regardless of above settings and mark all visits as excluded with information on the failed test
Enable logging	Log tracking exceptions to Event Viewer
Table time interval	How often to create new tracking database table to avoid tables with too many records