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Tracking

Tweaking website traffic data collection

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

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
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