This is a guide to the terminology we use within Telligent Analytics.
Active user
An Active user is a registered user who performs one or more of the following activities:
- Blog comment
- Blog post
- Forum post
- Forum reply
- Join a group
- Media comment
- Media download
- Media upload
- New status message
- New wiki page
- Rate a post
- Reply to existing status message
- Subscribe to content
- Successful friendship request
- Wiki comment
- Wiki revision
Contribution
A contribution is defined as any one of the following items:
- Blog comment
- Blog post
- Forum post
- Forum reply
- Media comment
- Media upload
- New status message
- New wiki page
- Reply to an existing status message
- Wiki comment
- Wiki revision
HTTP
cookie
An HTTP cookie is a piece of text stored on a user's
computer by a Web browser. Cookies are used in Telligent Analytics to
record a
unique user identifier and recognize returning visitors, as well as to
store an
identifier for the current session so that it can group and connect page
requests.
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HTTP module
An HttpModule is an ASP.NET feature that allows you to wire
events into specific parts of the server request. The ExtendedAnalytics
HttpModule subscribes to the Application_EndRequest event so that we can gather
information after the page has been requested and the user, authenticated.
Microsoft's definition: An HttpModule is an assembly that implements the IHttpModule
interface and handles events. ASP.NET includes a set of HttpModules that can be
used by your application. For example, the SessionStateModule is provided by
ASP.NET to supply session state services to an application. Custom HttpModules
can be created to respond to either ASP.NET events or user events.
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HTTP user agent
A user agent is the client application used to make a
request to the Web site. Typically, this is a type of Web browser, RSS reader,
or search-engine crawler.
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Page view
A page view is a request for a page file (*.aspx, *.html,
etc.), not including requests for additional page components like images, style
sheets, script files, etc.
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Referrer
A referrer is an external Web site a visitor was viewing
before coming to your Web site. Referrers are typically search engines
or other
external sites that hyperlink to pages within your Web site.
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Robot/crawler
view
A Robot/crawler view is a page view coming from a search-engine
crawler or other automated program that downloads Web pages for indexing
- or otherwise gathers information about a Web page.
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An RSS view is a request for page content coming from an RSS
reader or other syndication tool.
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Session
A session is one page request or successive page requests made by a
single visitor. Telligent Analytics uses a browser cookie to track page
requests that are part of the same session. An individual session lasts
until a
user's connection to a Web page times out from inactivity due to a user
leaving
the Web page to visit an external site, or due to the user closing
his/her Web browser.
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Visitor
A visitor is a unique user who visits the Web site.
Returning visitors are tracked in Telligent Analytics through a browser cookie.
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Web
view
A Web view is a request for a page file coming from a Web browser.
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