7.1 Overview

After a Website has been created in AIUNIFY Analytics, you can continue adjusting how that Website collects and reports Analytics data from the Edit website screen.

Navigate to:

Websites → Select Website → Edit

The Website configuration allows you to control:

  1. Tracking
  2. Track Outbound Clicks
  3. Track Visitors Events
  4. Session Replays
  5. Email Reports
  6. Public Statistics
  7. Public Statistics Password
  8. Bot Exclusion
  9. Track Query Parameters
  10. IP Tracking
  11. Excluded IPs
  12. Session Replays – Hide Text Selector
  13. Custom Domain, when available

The available controls depend partly on the Website's Tracking Type and partly on the features available to your Analytics account.

The key principle is:

Tracking Type determines which capabilities the Website can use.

Website settings determine which available capabilities are turned on.

7.2 Opening Website Settings

To configure an existing Website:

  1. Sign in to AIUNIFY Analytics.
  2. Select Websites.
  3. Locate the Website you want to modify.
  4. Click the Website Name or open its actions menu.
  5. Select Edit.
  6. The Edit website screen opens.

The Website actions menu provides Edit, Reset, and Delete.

The Edit Website screen contains the Website configuration and an Update button for saving changes.

7.3 Website Name

The first setting is:

Name

This is the internal name used to identify the Website inside AIUNIFY Analytics.

You can change this name without changing the Website's Analytics Tracking Type.

Examples:

  1. Corporate Website
  2. Main Sales Website
  3. Customer Portal
  4. West Coast Campaign
  5. Product Landing Page

Use names that allow your team to quickly recognize the correct property.

The Edit Website form allows the Website Name to be updated directly.

7.4 Website Address

The next setting is:

Website

This contains:

  1. Protocol
  2. Host/domain
  3. Optional Website path

Available protocols are:

  1. https://
  2. http://

The Website address can represent a:

  1. Domain
  2. Subdomain
  3. Specific path


Example

https://example.com

or

https://example.com/sales

Remember that the system states tracking operates for the domain, subdomain, or path defined in the Website configuration.

7.5 Changing the Website Address

If the Website's domain or path changes, you can update it from Edit website.

Examples include:

Old

example.com

New

newexample.com

or:

Old

example.com/offer1

New

example.com/offer2

After changing the address:

  1. Click Update.
  2. Confirm that your AIUNIFY Tracking Code is still installed where required.
  3. Generate test activity.
  4. Verify Realtime and Pageviews.

Changing a Website address should always be followed by a tracking verification.

7.6 Custom Domain

When Custom Domain functionality is available, the Website can be associated with a:

Custom domain

The Custom Domain determines the Analytics domain used for the Website's Tracking Code URL.

The Edit screen displays available Custom Domains when that feature is enabled.

The system describes Custom Domains as useful for using your own domain with Analytics tracking-code URLs.

A separate chapter later in this manual will explain Custom Domain management.

7.7 Tracking Type

The Website's Tracking type is visible from the Edit screen.

It will display either:

  1. Lightweight tracking
  2. Advanced tracking

However, the field is disabled.

You cannot change it from the Edit Website screen.

This confirms the rule established earlier:

Tracking Type is selected when the Website is created and cannot be changed later through normal Website settings.

7.8 Tracking

The main Website collection switch is:

Tracking

This controls whether Analytics tracking is enabled or disabled for the entire Website.

The interface describes it as:

Enable or disable tracking of the website completely.

7.9 When Tracking Is Enabled

When Tracking is enabled:

  1. The Website remains active.
  2. Its Tracking Code can collect supported Website activity.
  3. Analytics reports can continue receiving new data.
  4. Enabled optional tracking features can operate.

For an operational Website where you want ongoing Analytics collection, this setting should normally remain enabled.

7.10 When Tracking Is Disabled

When Tracking is disabled:

  1. The Website remains in your account.
  2. Historical Analytics is not deleted.
  3. The Website configuration is retained.
  4. Ongoing Website tracking is disabled.

This is useful when you want to pause collection without deleting the Website.

Examples include:

  1. Temporary maintenance
  2. Campaign pause
  3. Privacy review
  4. Website redesign
  5. Temporary testing
  6. Deactivated Website property

7.11 Tracking vs. Reset vs. Delete

Do not confuse these three controls.

ActionWebsite Kept?Existing Analytics Kept?New Collection
Disable TrackingYesYesStops
ResetYesNo / clearedCan continue
DeleteNoNoStops permanently

If your goal is only to temporarily stop tracking, use Tracking rather than Reset or Delete.

7.12 Track Outbound Clicks

The setting:

Track outbound clicks

controls whether Analytics records visitor clicks on links that lead outside the Website.

The application describes this as:

Enable or disable tracking for user clicks on links that go outside of the website.

7.13 When to Enable Outbound Click Tracking

Enable Track outbound clicks when you want to understand how visitors leave your Website through external links.

Examples include:

  1. Social-media links
  2. Partner Websites
  3. Affiliate links
  4. External booking systems
  5. Payment portals
  6. Third-party forms
  7. Vendor Websites
  8. Resource links

This data appears in the Outbound Clicks area of Analytics.

7.14 Example of Outbound Click Tracking

Suppose a Website contains:

Visit Partner Website

and that button sends users to:

partnercompany.com

With Outbound Click tracking enabled, Analytics can record that visitor interaction as an outbound event.

This helps answer questions such as:

  1. Which external destinations receive the most clicks?
  2. Which links cause visitors to leave the Website?
  3. Which partners receive the most referrals?
  4. Which external calls to action perform best?

7.15 Track Visitors Events

For Advanced Tracking Websites, the Edit screen can include:

Track visitors events

This setting controls collection of supported detailed Website interactions.

The system identifies examples such as:

  1. Mouse clicks
  2. Form submissions
  3. Resizes
  4. Scrolls


This control is only shown for Advanced Tracking Websites.

7.16 Why Visitor Events Matter

A Pageview answers:

Which page did the visitor open?

Visitor Events can help answer:

What did the visitor do after opening it?

For example:

Pageview

Visitor opens:

/pricing

Visitor Events

Visitor:

  1. Scrolls down
  2. Clicks a pricing button
  3. Resizes the browser
  4. Submits a form

This provides a more detailed view of Website engagement.

7.17 When to Enable Visitor Events

Consider enabling Visitor Events when you need:

  1. User-experience analysis
  2. Funnel behavior analysis
  3. Form-interaction insights
  4. Click behavior
  5. Scroll behavior
  6. More detailed Session investigation
  7. Session Replay context
Availability: Visitor Events may depend on the limits or features available to your AIUNIFY Analytics account.

The Edit form checks account availability before enabling this control.

7.18 Session Replays

Advanced Tracking Websites may also contain:

Session replays

This controls visual Session Replay tracking.

The setting is only available when:

  1. The Website uses Advanced Tracking.
  2. Session Replays are enabled for the Analytics system.
  3. The account has Replay availability.


7.19 When to Enable Session Replays

Session Replays can help when you want to visually investigate how visitors interact with the Website.

Use cases include:

  1. Identifying confusing navigation
  2. Reviewing abandoned forms
  3. Evaluating landing-page behavior
  4. Investigating conversion problems
  5. Understanding click patterns
  6. Observing scrolling behavior
  7. Reviewing unusual Visitor Sessions

Session Replay operation will be explained in dedicated chapters later in the manual.

7.20 Replay Usage Is Separate from Tracking Type

Choosing Advanced Tracking does not automatically mean Session Replays are active.

Three conditions must align:

Advanced Tracking + Replay Feature Availability + Session Replays Enabled

If Replays are missing but other Analytics functions work, review these conditions before troubleshooting the Tracking Code itself.

7.21 Email Reports

When available, Website configuration includes:

Email Reports

The system describes this as receiving simple Analytics for the Website through email.

The Edit screen lets you enable or disable Email Reports after the Website has already been created.

7.22 When to Enable Email Reports

Email Reports are useful when Website performance should be reviewed regularly without requiring the user to sign in for every summary.

Examples include:

  1. Business owners
  2. Marketing managers
  3. Sales managers
  4. Agency clients
  5. Department leaders
  6. Account managers

Email Report availability depends on your Analytics account configuration.

7.23 Public Statistics

The Website configuration includes a collapsible section:

Public statistics

When enabled, this allows overall Website statistics to be shared through a dedicated link.

The system describes the setting as:

Enabling this will allow you to share your overall statistics via a link.

7.24 Enabling Public Statistics

To enable Public Statistics:

  1. Open Edit website.
  2. Expand Public statistics.
  3. Enable Public statistics.
  4. Configure a password if required.
  5. Click Update.
  6. Return to Websites.
  7. Use the Public Statistics button for that Website.

The Websites table only enables the Public Statistics button when this setting is active.

7.25 Public Statistics Password

The configuration includes:

Public statistics password

This allows the shareable statistics page to be password protected.

The interface indicates that leaving the password empty disables password protection.

Use password protection when:

  1. Sharing Analytics with a client
  2. Sharing statistics with a partner
  3. Sharing reports with an external stakeholder
  4. Statistics should not be open to anyone who receives the link

7.26 Opening Advanced Settings

Below Public Statistics is:

Advanced

Expand this section to access additional Website collection controls.

These include:

  1. Bot Exclusion
  2. Track Query Parameters
  3. IP Tracking when available
  4. Excluded IPs
  5. Session Replays – Hide Text Selector


7.27 Bot Exclusion

The first Advanced control is:

Bot exclusion

The interface describes this as excluding widely known bots from tracking.

Examples named by the application include:

  1. Google Bot
  2. Yahoo Bot


7.28 Why Exclude Bots?

Website traffic can come from both:

Human visitors

and

Automated systems

Search crawlers and other automated agents can generate page requests that do not represent normal customer behavior.

Bot Exclusion helps keep reports more focused on visitor activity rather than recognized automated traffic.

7.29 When Bot Exclusion May Be Useful

Consider enabling it when you primarily care about:

  1. Customer traffic
  2. Marketing performance
  3. Website engagement
  4. Human conversion activity
  5. Visitor behavior

Because bot-detection systems are not necessarily perfect, interpret Analytics as measured Website activity rather than an absolute census of every request.

7.30 Track Query Parameters

The next setting is:

Track query parameters

When enabled, AIUNIFY Analytics includes URL query parameters in tracking instead of ignoring them.

A query parameter appears after a question mark in a URL.

Example:

example.com/page?campaign=summer

7.31 Why Query Parameters Matter

Consider these URLs:

example.com/pricing

example.com/pricing?source=email

example.com/pricing?source=facebook

When Query Parameter Tracking is enabled, those parameterized URLs can provide additional reporting detail.

This can be useful when query values identify:

  1. Marketing sources
  2. Campaigns
  3. Product selections
  4. Website states
  5. Referral information

7.32 When to Leave Query Parameter Tracking Off

Do not automatically enable this option for every Website.

Some Websites generate many unnecessary parameters.

For example:

example.com/product?id=10&session=abc123

If large numbers of constantly changing parameters are recorded, Pageview reporting can become fragmented.

Consider leaving query-parameter tracking disabled when parameters:

  1. Are temporary
  2. Change constantly
  3. Do not carry useful analytical information
  4. Could create many duplicate versions of the same page

7.33 IP Tracking

When available, Advanced Tracking Websites may contain:

IP tracking

The system recommends enabling IP storage only if appropriate user consent has been obtained.

The Edit form displays IP Tracking only when the Analytics system has that functionality enabled.

7.34 When to Use IP Tracking

IP Tracking should only be enabled when your organization's privacy requirements and Website practices support doing so.

Potential operational uses can include:

  1. Visitor analysis
  2. Security investigation
  3. Geographic/network context
  4. Traffic filtering

Because IP information can have privacy implications, do not enable this simply because the option exists.

7.35 Excluded IPs

The next Advanced setting is:

Excluded IPs

This allows you to exclude specified IP addresses from being tracked.

The interface requires multiple IPs to be entered as comma-separated values.

Example

192.0.2.10,192.0.2.25

7.36 Common Uses for Excluded IPs

Excluded IPs can be useful for preventing internal activity from influencing Website reports.

Examples include:

  1. Corporate office traffic
  2. Marketing department traffic
  3. Developer testing
  4. QA testing
  5. Website administrator activity
  6. Internal training sessions

Example

If employees repeatedly visit the Website while editing content, those Pageviews could inflate Analytics.

Excluding the organization's known applicable IP can help prevent those visits from appearing in collected Analytics.

7.37 Use IP Exclusions Carefully

Do not exclude an IP unless you are confident that its traffic should not be measured.

An IP address may sometimes represent:

  1. Multiple users
  2. Shared networks
  3. Public networks
  4. Dynamic connections

Incorrect exclusions can remove legitimate visitor activity.

Review this list periodically.

7.38 Session Replays – Hide Text Selector

Another Advanced Website setting is:

Session replays - Hide text selector

This lets you specify CSS selectors for text that should be hidden from Session Replays.

The system provides an example format similar to:

.custom-class,.another-custom-class

and describes the field as defining which text should be hidden.

7.39 Why Hide Text in Replays?

Session Replays are designed to help you analyze Website behavior, but certain Website areas may contain information you do not want visible in recordings.

Examples could include:

  1. Account information
  2. Form values
  3. Member information
  4. Customer details
  5. Private content
  6. Sensitive Website sections

The Hide Text Selector gives your implementation team a way to identify those elements using CSS selectors.

7.40 Example CSS Selector Configuration

Suppose your Website contains:


<div class="customer-email">
customer@example.com
</div>

A compatible selector could be:

.customer-email

If multiple elements need protection:

.customer-email,.customer-name,.account-number

The exact selectors depend on your Website's own HTML and CSS structure.

If you are unsure which selectors to use, consult the person who manages your Website code.

7.41 Settings Available by Tracking Type

A useful way to understand Website configuration is:

SettingLightweightAdvanced
TrackingYesYes
Track Outbound ClicksYes, when availableYes, when available
Visitor EventsNoYes
Session ReplaysNoYes
Email ReportsYes, when availableYes, when available
Public StatisticsYesYes
Bot ExclusionYesYes
Query ParametersYesYes
IP TrackingNot presented in Lightweight configurationYes, when available
Excluded IPsAvailable in Advanced settingsAvailable
Replay Hide Text SelectorNot useful without ReplaysYes

The actual Edit Website interface conditionally displays Visitor Events and Replays only for Advanced Tracking Websites.

7.42 Account Availability Also Matters

Even if a Website uses Advanced Tracking, some switches may be disabled because your account does not currently have access to the associated feature or usage capacity.

Examples include:

  1. Visitor Events
  2. Session Replays
  3. Email Reports

The Website edit form actively checks account limits before allowing those controls to be used.

Therefore, when a control appears disabled:

Do not immediately assume there is an error.

First review:

  1. Tracking Type
  2. Account availability
  3. Usage limits

7.43 Changing Settings Does Not Always Require Reinstalling the Tracking Code

Most Website configuration changes do not require you to create a new Website or copy a new Tracking Code.

For example, you can change:

  1. Tracking status
  2. Outbound Click tracking
  3. Visitor Events
  4. Replays
  5. Email Reports
  6. Bot Exclusion
  7. Query Parameters
  8. IP settings
  9. Public Statistics

while keeping the Website record.

However, after major Website or tracking changes, it is still good practice to verify that Analytics is operating correctly.

7.44 Saving Website Settings

After making your changes:

  1. Review the settings.
  2. Scroll to the bottom of Edit website.
  3. Click Update.

The actual Website configuration form ends with the Update action.

After updating, verify the Website from the Websites screen.

7.45 Verifying Changes

After modifying tracking behavior, perform a simple verification.

For general Tracking changes

Check:

Realtime → Pageviews → Dashboard

For Outbound Click changes

Visit the Website, click a supported external link, then review:

Outbound Clicks

For Visitor Event changes

Interact with an Advanced Tracking Website and review the applicable Visitor/Session activity.

For Replay changes

Generate a new Advanced Tracking Session and later review:

Replays

For Public Statistics changes

Return to:

Websites → Public Statistics

and confirm the shareable link behaves as intended.

7.46 Recommended Baseline — Lightweight Tracking

A typical Lightweight Website might use:

Tracking

Enabled

Track Outbound Clicks

Enabled where useful

Email Reports

As needed

Public Statistics

According to sharing requirements

Bot Exclusion

Enabled when human traffic is the priority

Track Query Parameters

Only when useful

Excluded IPs

Configured for known internal traffic where appropriate

This creates a straightforward traffic-reporting configuration.

7.47 Recommended Baseline — Advanced Tracking

A typical Advanced Website focused on deeper behavioral Analytics might use:

Tracking

Enabled

Track Outbound Clicks

Enabled

Track Visitors Events

Enabled

Session Replays

Enabled where appropriate

Email Reports

As needed

Public Statistics

According to sharing requirements

Bot Exclusion

Enabled when appropriate

Track Query Parameters

Based on Website structure

IP Tracking

Only when appropriate

Excluded IPs

Configured carefully

Session Replays – Hide Text Selector

Configured wherever sensitive content should not appear

The actual settings should always reflect your Website's operational and privacy requirements.

7.48 Website Tracking Configuration Checklist

When reviewing Website settings, verify:

  1. Correct Website selected
  2. Correct Website Name
  3. Correct domain/path
  4. Correct Custom Domain if applicable
  5. Tracking Type understood
  6. Tracking enabled or disabled intentionally
  7. Outbound Click tracking configured
  8. Visitor Events configured for Advanced Tracking
  9. Session Replays configured appropriately
  10. Email Reports configured
  11. Public Statistics configured
  12. Public Statistics password configured if needed
  13. Bot Exclusion configured
  14. Query Parameter Tracking configured appropriately
  15. IP Tracking configured appropriately
  16. Excluded IPs reviewed
  17. Session Replay hidden-text selectors reviewed
  18. Changes saved with Update
  19. Tracking behavior verified afterward

7.49 How These Settings Affect the Rest of Analytics

These Website settings directly influence what you will see in later Analytics sections.

For example:

Tracking disabled

→ New Analytics collection stops.

Outbound Clicks disabled

→ New outbound-link activity is not collected through that feature.

Visitor Events disabled

→ Detailed supported visitor interactions are not collected through that setting.

Session Replays disabled

→ New Replay collection is not performed through that feature.

Query Parameters disabled

→ Parameters are ignored rather than tracked as configured.

Excluded IP added

→ Activity from that IP is excluded.

This is why Website configuration should be reviewed before interpreting an empty or incomplete report.

7.50 Before Moving to Analytics Reporting

At this point, you have completed the core Website setup sequence:

Create Website → Choose Tracking Type → Connect Website → Manage Website → Configure Tracking Settings

You are now ready to begin working with the actual Analytics reporting interface.

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