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- Explains that there are two web-tracking reports: the account-wide Web Tracking Report page and the message-specific Mailing Activity Report web tracking sub-reports.
- Provides links to more information on both reports.
- Offers notes about the data that both reports will include.
- Describes how to access a Sent message's Mailing Activity Report web tracking sub-reports.
- Explains how to use the management options to customize the report data and table display.
- Provides a description (with notes) of the message-specific Web Tracking reports.
NOTE: Web Tracking reports use the legacy term, Subscriber. This term has been replaced by Contact, but it still appears in various places across the product. Subscriber and Contact are synonymous.
Web Tracking pre-requisites
This article assumes two things:
- Web tracking has been set up and enabled in your account. The set-up process is described in Set Up and Enable Web Tracking.
- You are familiar with how web tracking works and what types of user activities it reports on. Introductory and planning information are provided in Web Tracking Overview & Best Practices.
Two Web Tracking reports
If you're taking advantage of the Higher Logic Thrive Marketing Professional (Thrive Marketing Professional) web tracking feature to record user activity on your website, there are two reports that you can view in order to get differing levels of insights into that user activity.
- The Web Tracking Report page in Admin provides high-level information about all web-tracking activity in your account.
To learn about this report and its data, see Web Tracking Reports Page in Admin.
- The Web Tracking report on the Details tab of the Mailing Activity Report (MAR) provides a more in-depth look at the activity that resulted from a single message (i.e., recipient activity that resulted from a link being clicked in the selected message).
The "sub-reports" of this report are described in Message-specific Web Tracking reports in this article.
Web Tracking reports notes
As you review your web-tracking report data, keep in mind that both of these reports include data for ONLY:
- the pages that are set up to be tracked and which were visited.
- the interactions that are set up to be tracked and which occurred.
- the products that are set up to be tracked and which were purchased.
- activities that occurred during a specified time frame (i.e., if you specify a date range, the report data are limited to tracked activities during that time period only).
- any of the above activities that have occurred after web tracking was set up; reports do not include "pre-web tracking" activity.
Access the Mailing Activity Report's Web Tracking reports
This section describes how to access the web-tracking reports for an individual message in that message's dedicated Mailing Activity Report.
NOTE: The data on the Details tab is available for 90 days from the date the mailing was sent.
TIP: Higher Logic recommends that you export the report (click the Export button above the list) and store it on your preferred device if you want to preserve the data beyond the 90-day limit.
- Access the Admin interface and navigate to Messages > List.
- Click the down arrow to the right of the page title and select Sent.
- Click a message to select it, and then click Track.
The selected message's MAR opens on the Snapshot tab. (The name of the message displays in the upper left of the page as a convenient reminder.)
- Click the Details tab and then click Web Tracking to expand the group.
- Click the name of a report to display the report data in the right panel.
Each report is presented in table format with a default set of columns. To customize and manage the report results, you can:
- configure the display of the table,
- select which data to display,
- search and filter the results, and
- export the report.
Manage the report data and table display
The following table describes the management options that are available above the report tables.
NOTE: The Target and Filter options do not display for the Page Summary, Interaction Summary, and Purchase Summary reports.
| Option | Use to... |
|---|---|
| Search | Search for one or more instances of the message based on similarities. Click the dropdowns to select your criteria and click Find. |
| Reset | Clear any filters and/or search criteria that you have applied and restore the original set of report results. |
| Columns | Open the column-chooser pop up where you can add, remove, and re-order columns to customize which data display and how. |
| Export |
Export the top-most 5,000 rows of the report to Microsoft Excel
(click Download Excel File in the pop
up).
NOTE: If the report exceeds 5,000 rows, the system displays a pop-up message with an Email the file button. Click the button to receive an email message that contains the password-protected file. In the next pop up, note the password. |
| Target | Open a pop up and create a Target Group "on the fly". |
| Filter | Open a pop up. Click the dropdowns to filter by Folder and/or Target Group. |
The next section describes the "sub-reports." of this report web-tracking reports.
Message-specific Web Tracking reports
The table in the next section describes the reports that are available for an individual message.
| Report | Description and Notes |
|---|---|
| Page Summary |
A listing of all the tracked pages (URLs) of your website that
were visited as the result of recipients clicking a link in this
message.
|
| Interaction Summary |
A listing of all the tracked interactions that occurred
on your website as the result of recipients clicking
a link in this message.
|
| Purchase Summary |
A listing of all the tracked purchases that
occurred on your website as the result of recipients clicking
a link
in this message.
|
| Subscriber Summary |
A listing of all the message recipients who visited your website
as the result of clicking a link in this message. First-time
visitors
are now "known users" in your account.
|
| Subscriber Page Detail |
A listing of all the message recipients who visited your website
as the result of clicking a link in this message and details
about
those page visits.
|
| Subscriber Interaction Detail |
A listing of all the message recipients who performed an interaction
on your website as the result of clicking a link in this message
and details about those interactions.
|
| Subscriber Purchase Detail |
A listing of all the message recipients who made a purchase on
your
website as the result of clicking a link in this message and
details
about those purchases.
|