Site Analytics (previously Statistics) setup

Site Analytics (previously Statistics) setup

For more information, read Site Analytics versus Google Analytics.

Navigation

Before you can configure the Site Analytics script, you must first enable the Site Analytics feature for the domain in the Edit Domain settings:

1. Log in to your Web Governance account.
2. Locate the domain that you want to work with.
3. Click Action on the same row as the domain.
4. Select Edit Domain.
5. Scroll to the Features section.
6. Locate Site Analytics (previously Statistics) and toggle the switch to ON to enable the feature and begin tracking website visitor statistics.
7. Click Save.

Configure the tracking script

1. Log in to your Web Governance account.
2. Locate the domain that you want to work with.
3. Click Action on the same row as the domain.
4. Select Script Setup Guide.
5. Click Enable Site Analytics to turn it on.
6. The options to Enable Cookieless Tracking and Enable Document Tracking appear.
7. Turn on these if desired.
   For more information, read:
   • ​Cookieless tracking setup
   • Document scan setup
8. Click Save at the bottom of the page.

9. Copy the script and add it to the HTML code of the website. In the HTML editor, paste the script into the HEAD tag or place it before the </body> tag on every page.

   Note

   If

   Consent Manager

   is activated, the script must be in the HEAD tag in order to catch the cookies.

   For more information, read Add the script.

10. Return to the Domain overview to activate the Site Analytics analytics dashboard view for the domain.
11. Click Action on the same row as the domain.
12. Select Edit Domain.
13. In the Features section, click Site Analytics to enable the analytics dashboard view.
14. Click Save. The Edit Domain page closes and the Site Analytics dashboard view is now active.

Advanced setup

It is possible to set up the script manually. The button must be ON in the Script Setup Guide as per the steps above, but if you prefer to set up the script yourself, read Tracking in the developers documentation section.

Exclude IP addresses

This section provides instructions for admin users on how to exclude a specific IP address from the Site Analytics results in the scan.

1. Log in to your Web Governance account.
2. Locate the domain that you want to work with.
3. Click Action on the same row as the domain.

4. Select Site Analytics excluded IP addresses. 

   The Excluded IP addresses from Site Analytics page opens. This page lists previously added IP address exclusions and offers the opportunity to add or delete exclusions from the list.

5. Click the + icon to Add a new IP address for exclusion from the scan.

   Tip! Use * as a wildcard (for example 192.168.1.*).

6. Click the trashcan icon to remove an exclusion.
7. Click Save and close to save the changes and close the page.

Cookieless tracking

This section provides information about Cookieless tracking.

The Site Analytics module normally applies a cookie to the browser of the visitor. It is possible to remove this so that the scan can still track the same data from visitors who refuse Site Analytics cookies on the cookie banner.

• For instructions on how to turn this on, read Cookieless tracking setup.
• To set up Cookieless Tracking manually, read Tracking in the developers documentation section.

Event tracking

For instructions on how to use and set up Event Tracking, read Event tracking

Copy the script

When all of the features and modules are set up, copy the script and add it to the HTML code of the website. In the HTML editor, paste the script into the HEAD tag or place it before the </body> tag on every page.

For more information, read ​How to add the script.

For more information, read Add the script.