Host Grouping

The Host Grouping option allows you to group the traffic from multiple hosts into a single Host Group. This option is useful for grouping the traffic from major online service providers or large corporations whose traffic to your web site comes through multiple proxy servers. For example, if someone from America Online is browsing your web site, each hit to your site could come through a different proxy server (host), thus showing up as multiple visits. Using the Host Grouping option you can group all hosts that end with ".aol.com" as America Online to avoid the incorrect visit calculation. By default NetTracker is configured to group traffic from America Online, CompuServe, Prodigy and WebTV.

To add a Host Group, click on the Add button. For Name of host group enter the host name that you wish to have displayed for the host group. For Domain of host group enter the domain in which you wish to have the host group included in the Domain Summary. For example, to have the Host Group included in United States Commercial (.com) enter "United States Commercial".

Check the Ignore cookies from this host group box if you do not wish to have cookies used when calculating visits for hosts in this host group. For example, some on-line services such as America Online do not consistently pass the same cookie for each view in a visit. This can reduce the accuracy of results if cookies are utilized in the visit calculations. In the above example the Ignore cookies from this host group box should be checked. When you are done adding the host group click the Save Options button.

To delete a Host Group, highlight the Host Group and the click the Delete button. To edit a Host Group, highlight the Host Group and then click the Edit button. Then make the desired changes and click on the Save Options button.

To add hosts to a Host Group, highlight the Host Group in the list box and click on the Members button. To add members to the Host Group click the Add button. Then select from the list boxes to create the request: Group hosts "[That end with]", enter the hostname to match in the next text box (e.g.: "sales.sane.com"), and click on the Add button. To delete a host from a Host Group, highlight the host in the list box and click on the Delete button. To edit a host or user in a Host Group, highlight the host or user in the list box and click on the Edit button. Then make the desired changes and click on the Update button.