TOOLS

The Urchin interface is uncluttered and easy to use, but it does harbour some very useful features, some of which can be easily overlooked.

Filtering

Some reports can contain hundreds, or even thousands of lines of information. If you're only interested in specific results, wading through all the unwanted information can be unproductive. Filtering allows you to exclude everything but what you're interested in, and even recalculates all the totals and percentages for you.

Example: on the Top Referrers report, you can filter it to only display results from the various Google servers by entering google in the input box and pressing the + button, similarly, to exclude all results from Google, press the - button.

Number visible

You can select the number of results to display on each page, while the default is just 10, you can have it display up to 100, very useful if you want to be able to see more results at a glance.

Export CSV

This small button - which is hidden at the bottom of each report, and easily overlooked - enables you to export the results you're currently viewing as a CSV file. CSV files can be imported into Microsoft Excel, or any similar program, where you can create many charts and reports of your own.

Increase the number of results visible to get more information in your CSV file.