Using ALA for shareware authors

If you are a shareware author, or even if you are software company, then you sell software products online.
You need to have a tool to precisely analyze the activity of the customers and prospects visiting your site.

Creating reports for each individual product
 
If, for example, you have the following products on your site:
aaa.zip
bb.exe
ccc.zip

Then normally you would simply need to create separate reports for each product by using a filter.
Thus for aaa.zip you need to add the following filter:
filter=href;includes; aaa.zip

Note if you want to display stats for both exe and zip files, use this filter:
filter=file_ext;included_in;.zip.exe

Additionally, if you want to see completed downloads, add this filter:
filter=status;equals;200

For example, we use the following report to see complete downloads of our analyzer:report:

type=time_report
name=Downloads of ALA
filter=status;equals;200
filter=href;includes;ala.zip
param=requests
duration=day
show_table=true
show_chart=true

 
Analyzing the activity of your buyers
 
Normally if you use PayPro Global or PayPro Global registration services, they provide the IP addresses of your customers.
So you could use these IPs to find the paths, search words and referrer sites of your real customers.

We propose you use this algorithm:
  1. Create realips.txt, or any other text file with a list of your customer IP addresses. Each IP address should be on one line.
  2. Choose and add the reports that you need.
 
The easiest way to add a report is to open reports.ini with a text editor and add report scripts.

Most of the magic is hidden in filters, you can use the following filters in your reports:
filter=ip;included_in_file;c:\realips.txt

For instance, if you have a product test.exe, and you want to see your buyer referrers you need to add the following filter:
filter=href;includes;test.exe

In this instance you would add the following report:

type=basic
name=Buyers referrers
filter=ip;included_in_file;D:\realips.txt
filter=href;includes;test.exe
param=referrer
limit=50
percentage=false
pagesonly=false
sortby=value
show_table=true
show_chart=false

If you want to find the search phrases used by your buyers just add this report:

type=search_phrases
name=Buyer Search Phrases
filter=ip;included_in_file;D:\realips.txt
limit=50
percentage=true
sortby=value
show_table=true
show_chart=false

Do you still have some questions? Ask us at support@abacre.com

See also:

Using ALA for hosting companies | Command line parameters  | Why index.htm file is not found in output directory?

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