This report displays the total number of distinct visitors to your website. For authenticated portals, visitors are tracked by identifying logged-in users. For anonymous websites, users are tracked both by using a browser cookie to identify a user on a particular computer as a single visitor, and by identifying visitor IP addresses. This report displays the visitor's username, cookie identifier or IP address (for anonymous SharePoint sites). When configuring Active Directory updates, additional user information can be displayed, such user name, role, etc.
When tracking unique visitors on anonymous websites, there is no simple way to identify if a single person uses different browsers to visit your site. In this case, if a visitor uses different browsers to visit your website, each browser will be counted as a distinct visitor in Analytics. Similarly, there is no way to identify if more than one person shares the same computer and browser to visit your website. This activity is logged as one visitor. Additionally, if user identification is based on IP address, when a user's IP address changes, they will be identified as a new user.
CardioLog Analytics also supports scenarios where a SharePoint site is available both for authenticated and anonymous users. For more information see: Monitoring authenticated users in an Anonymous environment after they sign in
Note:
- In order to display the user logon name for authenticated environments - configure Active Directory integration
- To mask user names in this report, configure PII Concealment
- The map widget is based on visitor IP
- Learn how to display IP address or cookie identifiers for anonymous users
- Learn how to retrieve user names from custom sources
- Learn how to configure visitor segmentation by Active Directory attributes
- Learn how to configure visitor segmentation by SharePoint user profiles
- Learn how to import user information from custom sources
Available Report Widgets
Meter, Chart, Table, Map
Table Widget
The Unique Users table widget contains the following columns:
- User - The user name, cookie identifier, or IP address.
- Views - The number of page views (requests)
- Visits - The number of visits. A visits is a series of SharePoint page requests from the same uniquely identified client with a time of no more than 30 minutes between each page request.
- Searches - The number of SharePoint search action.
- Visit Duration - The average duration of visits.
- Custom Columns - This widget provides the ability to add additional user fields.
Map Widget
This report provides a world-map representation of unique users by country. Countries are color coded, with darker colors representing higher values. Mouse over a country to display the number of unique users. CardioLog Analytics uses internal and third-party data to derive visitors' geographic locations from their IP addresses.