Monitoring multiple sites

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You can use Sales-n-Stats  for monitoring multiple sites. To make it easier for the operator to differentiate among the visitors from separate sites on the Site Monitor Sales-n-Stats allows to set up not only separate zones for each of them, but group them in separate sites. This works as if you had several copies of Sales-n-Stats installed with several Data Collectors.

You can set up sites via Main Menu: Tools->System settings->Sites and zones. Sites are set up just the same as zones, using URL patterns. Every site can include zones, but not other sites - any site is always on the top level.

The fact that the visitor browsed several monitored sites is reflected in his Visitor Profile. The history of his visits contains a field called 'Site' and in the action list each action is associated with the site where it happened.

If you use Sales-n-Stats with compatible software, the external actions contain a new field - "site", containing the URL of the browsed site. If there is no such field, or the URL does not correspond to any monitored site, the action is considered to belong to an 'unknown site'.

All reports contain a parameter titled 'site'. It can take on the following values: "any site", "unknown site" or site name. A generated report contains only the data from the specified site. Only one exception: the visitor's profile is the same for all sites. For example, a visitor registered at the first monitored site. If he or she then enters a different name when registering at the second one, this name will overwrite the first one.