Reporting options

There are only a few options here, but they should help you make the best of 4Analytics reporting capabilities

Live views

4Analtyics has the ability to inform you in real time about visitors on your site. You can enable/disable this feature here:

This feature uses resources so if you don't use it, may be best to leave it off. You can conveniently toggle it on or off directly from the Humans on site widget that shows at the top of all 4Analytics backend pages.

Send reports by email

As mentioned earlier, 4Analytics can send out summary reports by email to recipients of your chosing.

Recipients

 

Configuration is limited to the strict minimum: 4Analytics can send daily, weekly and monthly reports.

You have 3 input fields, one for each type of reporting period. Enter the list of emails adresses that should receive these reports in each field:

• Adresses can appear in several input fields, as the same user can receive both daily and weekly report for instance
• These addresses don't have to be those of registered Joomla users, they can be any email address

Multilingual websites

If your site is multilingual:

• if an address matches that of an account on the site, 4Analytics will send reports and emails in that user language, assuming the language is one 4Analytics is available in
• if a user is not found, emails and reports are sent in the website default language

Links to online reports

Emailed summary reports only contains 8 major indicators of the website operation for the period. But they also contain 2 links to online version of the simple and detailed reports.

Users receiving the emailed summaries can click these links to access the full reports online, without password or having to log in. All details on emailed links are here.

You can disable the links inclusion in emailed reports using the Include links to online report option.

 

In addition, you can also Reset online links password. That password is used internally by 4Analytics to encode the links, make sure they have not been modified and expire them after 30 days.

Resetting that password will immediately invalidate all existing report links. Only links created after that reset will work.

Users don't need to know the password to access online reports. The link is enough.

 

Reports and emails branding

Default reports displayed online by 4Analytcis, and all emailed summaries have no specific branding (and no mention of them being created by 4Analytics).

This works in most cases, but you can also add your own logo and customize some parts of these reports and messages.

Reports customization

• a custom logo will always be displayed in the top left corner of reports

Custom logo must always be fully-qualified URLs, starting with https:// (or http://).

• a custom title replaces the title at the top

 

• a custom footer is only visible when the report is actually printed or saved as PDF:

Email customization

You can change the default header message and footer messages:

Calendar

Different places around the world start the week on different days, so you can pick here whatever is your preferred day.

You will need to Rebuild aggregate data if you change the day the week starts on.

Fill line charts areas

You can customize the way charts look in reports by enabling or disabling chart areas fill with this option.

This option only applies if there are only 1 or 2 lines in a given chart. If there are more than 2 lines in a chart, 4Analytics will not fill the chart area, as this renders the chart unreadable anyway.