MatrixStats uses a more accurate approach by counting sessions, i.e. individual user visits, cataloguing length of user visits, which pages they have visited and which browser they viewed your site on.

The wealth of data available on MatrixStats can be rather daunting at first, but once you get to grips with the volume of information you will be able to see exactly how well your web site is performing.


What's on MatrixStats
On loading the MatrixStats homepage, you will be presented with summary statistics for the past 24 hours.
You can amend the timespan using the calendar by selecting the start date and then the finish date. You can select a week, month or longer timespans. Clicking on a menu link will open the options available for that section. Analysis will show a summary for each section.

Tracking
Tracking will show you whose currently looking at your site and specific site watches you have configured.

Summaries
Full analytical breakdown of the number of sessions served, page usage, browser and platform usage, referrer activity - where are your visitors coming from and who were there sessions by - where do your visitors come from.This can be presented for Yesterday, Last Week or Last Month. This is the place to start to understand your statistics! We recommend you print this page to get a good understanding of what the numbers mean.From the Summaries section you can take a deeper look at the various areas analysed by MatrixStats.


Usage
The analysis page repeats the data presented in the summary.
Kilobytes - The bytes transferred report details the number of bytes sent and received from the site.
Hits - Usage by hits shows the number of files served by the site within the specified time range. The hits report details all files, not just those with a defined type.
Pages - The 'Page hits' report details the number of requests for documents recognised as pages rather than other files such as images or downloads.
Session Bytes - The bytes per session report shows how many bytes were transferred on average per session.
Session Hits - The hits per session report shows how many hits were recorded on average per session.
Session Time - The time per session report shows the average amount of time between the first and last requests from a single session.
Sessions - The Sessions report details the number of visitors to the site.
Pages

The analysis page repeats the data presented in the summary
Map- The usage maps report displays a user-customisable hierrachy of the site.
Page Views - The most popular pages report details the most commonly requested pages on the site.
Page Errors - The Most Common Errors report details the pages which generated an error when requested.
Downloads - The Most Popular Downloads report details the requests for files which are recognised as downloads (rather than pages)
Download Errors -The Most Common Download Errors report details the downloads which generated an error when requested.
Least Views - The Least Viewed report details those pages which were viewed the least.
Entry Point - The Session entry points report shows which pages were the first to be requested by visitors to the site.
Exit Point - The Session exit points report shows which pages were the last to be requested by visitors to the site.
Viewed Once - The only page viewed report details sessions which only requested one page during their navigation of the site.
Directory - The directory report groups page requests into their web directories.
Browsers

The analysis page repeats the data presented in the summary
Agent Type - The agent type report details the web browsers used to connect to the site.
User OS - what operating system visitors were using.
Browser Tag - shows all variants of browser/operating system used.
Robot Tag- The Robot Tags report details the information sent by the web browser to the web site when a request is made.
Referrers by

The analysis page repeats the data presented in the summary
URLs -The Referring URLs report details the referrals to this site from locations not matching the descriptions of any known search engines.
Broken Links- The broken link report details all pages requested which returned a 404 'Not found' error message from the site.
Spongers - The Spongers report details referrals from external pages to non-page files on the site. Indicated users possibly downloading images.
Domains - The Referring Domains report summarises all non-search engine referrals into their domains.
Search Eng - The Search Engine report details all referrals from sites recognised as Internet search engines.
Keywords - The Search Engine Keywords report details individual words used to find the site from a recognised search engine during the selected time period.
Phrases - The Search Engine Keywords report details phrases used, or groups of words used together, to find the site from a recognised search engine during the selected time period.
Sessions by

The analysis page repeats the data presented in the summary
Network - The network report details sessions by the cat-C network of the client request.
Host Name- The Sessions by Hostname report shows the resolved host names for clients to the site.
TLDs - The Sessions by Host Domain report groups all resolved client IP addresses into their top level domains.
Location - The Sessions by Network Location report details sessions by their physical location.