9.1 Overview

AIUNIFY Analytics allows you to narrow Website reporting in two important ways:

  1. Date Ranges — determine the period of time being analyzed.
  2. Analytics Filters — determine which visitors, Pageviews, devices, locations, traffic sources, campaigns, or other attributes should be included in the results.

These controls are important because the same Website can tell very different stories depending on the period and audience being analyzed.

For example, instead of viewing all Website activity, you could analyze:

Last 30 days → Mobile visitors → United States → Facebook campaign

or:

This month → Desktop visitors → Specific landing page

The Dashboard uses the selected date range and active filters when calculating its Analytics data. Both Advanced and Lightweight Dashboard processing apply the active date range and applicable filters to the Website's records.

9.2 Why Filters and Date Ranges Matter

Looking only at total Website traffic can hide important differences.

Suppose your Website generated:

10,000 Pageviews

That number alone does not explain:

  1. When the traffic occurred
  2. Which pages produced it
  3. Which countries generated it
  4. Which devices visitors used
  5. Which browsers they used
  6. Which campaigns generated traffic
  7. Which referrers sent visitors
  8. Whether a particular audience behaved differently

Filters and date controls let you move from:

What happened?

to:

What happened during this period, for this particular audience or traffic source?

9.3 The Date Range Control

Analytics reporting screens contain a calendar/date-range control.

The control displays either:

A single date

or

Start Date – End Date

depending on the currently selected reporting period.

To change the reporting period:

  1. Open the Analytics Dashboard or another supported reporting area.
  2. Locate the calendar/date control.
  3. Click it.
  4. Select a predefined range or choose your own dates.
  5. Analytics reloads the report using the selected period.

9.4 Available Date Range Presets

The date selector provides the following built-in reporting periods:

  1. Today
  2. Yesterday
  3. This week
  4. Last 30 days
  5. This month
  6. Last month
  7. This year
  8. Last year
  9. All time


These presets allow you to quickly switch between common reporting periods without manually entering dates.

9.5 Today

Select:

Today

when you want to examine Website activity generated during the current day.

This is useful for:

  1. Campaign launches
  2. Promotions
  3. Website changes
  4. New landing pages
  5. Daily traffic monitoring
  6. Troubleshooting

For activity occurring within approximately the last minute, Realtime remains the more appropriate live-monitoring tool.

9.6 Yesterday

Select:

Yesterday

to review the previous day's Analytics.

This can be useful when conducting daily performance reviews such as:

Yesterday's traffic → Pageviews → Visitors → Conversions → Traffic Sources

9.7 This Week

Select:

This week

to review activity for the current calendar week.

This is useful for:

  1. Weekly marketing reviews
  2. Sales campaign monitoring
  3. Website engagement trends
  4. Weekly management reports

The system calculates the current week's start and end using the date-range control.

9.8 Last 30 Days

Select:

Last 30 days

to review a rolling 30-day period ending with the current day.

This is often useful for general performance analysis because it provides enough data to identify broader trends without requiring an entire month or year.

The date selector calculates this preset from 29 days before the current day through the current day.

9.9 This Month

Select:

This month

to review Website activity for the current calendar month.

This can be particularly useful for:

  1. Monthly marketing performance
  2. Current campaign results
  3. Client reporting
  4. Lead-generation reviews
  5. Monthly business-performance monitoring

9.10 Last Month

Select:

Last month

to review the complete previous calendar month.

For example, during August, Last month would represent the previous month's beginning through its end.

This can provide a clean completed reporting period for monthly reviews.

9.11 This Year

Select:

This year

to analyze Website activity from the beginning of the current year through the current date.

Use this for:

  1. Year-to-date reporting
  2. Annual marketing reviews
  3. Long-term traffic trends
  4. Strategic performance analysis

9.12 Last Year

Select:

Last year

to review the complete previous calendar year.

This can be useful when evaluating long-term Website performance or manually comparing yearly periods.

9.13 All Time

Select:

All time

to review all available Analytics history for the Website.

The system limits the earliest date to the Website's creation date and the latest date to the current date.

Therefore, All time means:

From the earliest Analytics date available for that Website through today.

9.14 Selecting a Custom Date Range

You are not limited to the predefined options.

The date picker allows you to select your own:

Start Date → End Date

After the selection is made, Analytics reloads the report with the chosen dates passed as:

start_date

and

end_date


This allows you to analyze specific periods such as:

  1. A seven-day promotion
  2. An advertising campaign
  3. A product launch
  4. A conference
  5. A Website redesign
  6. A seasonal promotion
  7. A specific business quarter

9.15 Date Range Persistence

When you select a date range, AIUNIFY Analytics stores the selected start and end dates for the current Analytics session.

If no new dates are supplied, Analytics attempts to reuse the previously selected dates.

This means you can move between supported Analytics screens while continuing to analyze the same reporting period.

For example:

Dashboard → Pageviews → Visitors → Replays

can continue using the selected Analytics dates rather than forcing you to select them repeatedly.

9.16 Default Date Behavior

If no date range has been selected or stored, the Analytics helper initializes a reporting period beginning 30 days before the current date and ending on the current date.

You can immediately replace that range using the calendar control.

9.17 Timezone and Analytics Dates

The Analytics date control uses your account's configured Timezone.

The Dashboard specifically sets its date-handling timezone according to the user's timezone before applying the selected reporting period.

This is why the Timezone setting discussed earlier in this manual is important.

If your account timezone is incorrect, daily Analytics boundaries may not correspond to the reporting periods you expect.

9.18 Example: Campaign Date Analysis

Suppose your marketing campaign ran:

August 1–August 14

Rather than analyzing the entire month:

  1. Open the date selector.
  2. Choose August 1 as the start date.
  3. Choose August 14 as the end date.
  4. Apply the range.
  5. Review:
  6. Pageviews
  7. Visitors
  8. Goals
  9. Referrers
  10. UTMs
  11. Countries
  12. Devices
  13. Other Dashboard statistics

Now the Dashboard reflects the campaign period rather than unrelated Website activity.

9.19 The Analytics Filter Control

In addition to dates, AIUNIFY Analytics provides a:

Filter

control.

The Filter button appears alongside the Dashboard reporting controls when Analytics data is available.

Clicking the Filter control opens the Analytics filtering area.

The filter panel is titled:

Active filters

and contains:

Add filter


9.20 Opening the Filter Panel

To create a filter:

  1. Open the appropriate Analytics report.
  2. Click the Filter icon.
  3. The Active filters panel opens.
  4. Click Add filter.
  5. Select what you want to filter by.
  6. Select a matching rule.
  7. Enter the filter value.
  8. Click Update.

The application then refreshes the Analytics report using the filter configuration.

9.21 Visitor Filters

For supported reporting areas, the Add filter menu provides Visitor-related filters including:

  1. IP, when IP storage is enabled
  2. Continent code
  3. Country code
  4. City name
  5. Screen resolution
  6. Browser language
  7. Browser timezone
  8. Operating system
  9. Device
  10. Browser
  11. Theme


These filters let you isolate particular audience characteristics.

9.22 Country Filter

The:

Country code

filter lets you narrow Analytics according to visitor country.

For example, if you want to study traffic from the United States, create the applicable Country Code filter.

This can help answer questions such as:

  1. How much traffic comes from a particular country?
  2. Which pages are most popular for that audience?
  3. Which devices do visitors from that country use?
  4. How many Goals were generated from that audience?

9.23 City Filter

Use:

City name

when you want to narrow reports to a particular city.

This can be useful for:

  1. Local businesses
  2. Regional campaigns
  3. Event marketing
  4. Franchise locations
  5. Territory-based sales teams
  6. Location-specific promotions

9.24 Device Filter

Use:

Device

to isolate activity according to the visitor's device classification.

This can help compare experiences such as:

Desktop users

versus

Mobile users

Understanding device behavior can be especially useful when evaluating landing-page design and conversions.

9.25 Operating System Filter

Use:

Operating system

to narrow Analytics according to the visitor's operating system.

This can help when investigating:

  1. Technical Website issues
  2. Device compatibility
  3. User-experience differences
  4. Audience technology profiles

9.26 Browser Filter

Use:

Browser

to isolate Website activity generated from a specific browser.

This can help identify situations where:

  1. One browser has lower engagement
  2. A Website feature behaves differently
  3. Conversion performance varies by browser
  4. Technical problems appear browser-specific

9.27 Screen Resolution Filter

Use:

Screen resolution

to analyze visitors using particular screen dimensions.

This can help Website-design teams investigate how different layouts perform across varying displays.

9.28 Browser Language

Use:

Browser language

to narrow reporting according to the language preference reported by the visitor's browser.

This can be useful for:

  1. International Websites
  2. Multilingual campaigns
  3. Localization planning
  4. Regional content strategies

9.29 Browser Timezone

Use:

Browser timezone

to analyze Website activity according to visitor browser timezone information.

This can help understand when and where audiences interact with a Website across different time regions.

9.30 Theme

The Visitor filter list also includes:

Theme

This can be used where Analytics has recorded supported theme information associated with Website visitor activity.

9.31 Pageview Filters

The Filter system also provides Pageview-related options.

These include:

  1. Path
  2. Page title
  3. Referrer host
  4. UTM source
  5. UTM medium
  6. UTM campaign


These filters are especially important for marketing and content analysis.

9.32 Path Filter

Use:

Path

to isolate traffic associated with a particular Website path.

Examples:

/pricing

/contact

/products

/landing-page

This lets you analyze a specific page or group of similar paths.

9.33 Page Title Filter

For supported Advanced Tracking data, the filter list can include:

Page title

The source specifically hides this Page Title filter when the Website uses Lightweight Tracking.

Use Page Title when you want to isolate activity according to the title recorded for a Website page.

9.34 Referrer Host Filter

Use:

Referrer host

to focus on Website activity originating from a particular referring Website.

For example, you might want to isolate visitors coming from:

  1. A search engine
  2. Partner Website
  3. News Website
  4. Referral source
  5. Social platform

This allows you to examine the quality and behavior of traffic from a particular source.

9.35 UTM Source

Use:

UTM source

to isolate campaign activity according to the utm_source value associated with incoming traffic.

Examples might include:

google

facebook

newsletter

linkedin

This is particularly useful for marketing campaign analysis.

9.36 UTM Medium

Use:

UTM medium

to filter according to the marketing medium recorded in a UTM-tagged URL.

Examples might include:

email

cpc

social

referral

This helps differentiate channels within campaign traffic.

9.37 UTM Campaign

Use:

UTM campaign

to isolate traffic associated with a particular campaign name.

For example:

summer_sale

product_launch

insurance_campaign

conference_2026

Combining UTM filters with date ranges can provide highly focused campaign reporting.

9.38 Filter Rules

After choosing what to filter, AIUNIFY Analytics requires you to choose a rule.

Available rules are:

  1. Is
  2. Is not
  3. Contains
  4. Starts with
  5. Ends with


These determine how Analytics compares the value you enter with the recorded Analytics data.

9.39 Using “Is”

Choose:

Is

when the Analytics value must exactly match the value you enter.

Example:

Device → Is → mobile

Use an exact-match filter when you know the precise value you want.

9.40 Using “Is Not”

Choose:

Is not

when you want to exclude an exact value.

Example:

Country Code → Is not → US

This lets you analyze all matching records except the specified value.

9.41 Using “Contains”

Choose:

Contains

when the field only needs to contain the text you enter.

Example:

Path → Contains → pricing

This could match paths that contain the word pricing.

This is useful when several related URLs contain the same text.

9.42 Using “Starts With”

Choose:

Starts with

when the recorded value must begin with the entered text.

For example:

Path → Starts with → /products

This can be useful for analyzing a Website section containing multiple related pages.

9.43 Using “Ends With”

Choose:

Ends with

when the recorded value must end with the entered text.

This can be useful when URL structures or campaign naming conventions share a common ending.

The source confirms that Analytics translates these five rules into exact, exclusion, contains, prefix, and suffix matching conditions.

9.44 Adding Multiple Filters

AIUNIFY Analytics allows multiple filters to be added to the Active filters panel.

For example:

Country Code → Is → US

and:

Device → Is → mobile

and:

UTM Campaign → Is → summer_sale

The filter system combines applicable active filters using AND conditions.

Therefore the example above means:

Show activity that matches the United States AND mobile device AND the specified campaign.

It does not mean any one of the filters can match independently.

9.45 Why Multiple Filters Are Powerful

Multiple filters allow very specific audience analysis.

For example:

Last 30 Days

plus:

Country Code → Is → US

plus:

Device → Is → mobile

plus:

UTM Source → Is → facebook

allows you to investigate:

U.S. mobile traffic from Facebook during the last 30 days.

You can then review that segment across applicable Analytics reporting.

9.46 Removing an Individual Filter

Each Active Filter contains a delete/remove control.

To remove a filter:

  1. Open Filter.
  2. Locate the Active Filter.
  3. Click its delete/remove button.
  4. Repeat for any additional filters you want removed.
  5. Click Update.

The filter interface removes the selected filter row before saving the updated filter configuration.

9.47 Updating Filters

After creating, changing, or removing Filters:

  1. Review the Active filters list.
  2. Click Update.

Analytics saves the filter configuration and refreshes the page.

The refreshed report then uses the active filtering conditions.

9.48 Filters Remain Active

The Analytics application stores your active filters in the browser and reloads them when appropriate.

The source stores the filter configuration in a browser cookie for 30 days and reconstructs the Active filters panel from that stored configuration.

This is important because you may leave one report and later find that filtering is still affecting another compatible Analytics view.

Always check for active filters when results appear unexpectedly narrow.

9.49 Filters Can Carry Across Analytics Areas

Filters are not simply cosmetic changes to one chart.

The Analytics filtering helper uses the stored filter configuration in supported data queries.

For example, active filters are applied to both Advanced and Lightweight Pageview queries along with the selected date range.

This means a filter you activate can continue influencing compatible reports until it is removed.

9.50 Filters Available Can Change by Screen

Not every Analytics screen supports every possible filter.

The application determines which filter categories are appropriate for the current report.

For example, some reports can use:

Visitor Filters

while others may use:

Pageview/Event Filters

or a combination of both.

The Analytics filter helper has separate supported filter groups for:

  1. Advanced Visitor data
  2. Advanced Session/Event data
  3. Lightweight Event data


Therefore, the Add filter menu may vary depending on where you are in Analytics.

9.51 Lightweight Tracking Filter Differences

Lightweight Tracking has its own supported Analytics filter fields.

The source identifies Lightweight filters including:

  1. Continent Code
  2. Country Code
  3. City Name
  4. Screen Resolution
  5. Browser Language
  6. Browser Timezone
  7. Operating System
  8. Device Type
  9. Browser Name
  10. Path
  11. Referrer Host
  12. UTM Source
  13. UTM Medium
  14. UTM Campaign


Because Lightweight Tracking does not maintain the same visitor-level history as Advanced Tracking, its filter capabilities operate against its Lightweight Analytics records.

9.52 Advanced Tracking Filters

Advanced Tracking can combine information from both:

Visitor-level data

and:

Session/Pageview event data

Supported fields include visitor characteristics such as device, location, browser, and operating system along with Pageview characteristics such as path, title, referrer, and UTM values.

This allows detailed segmentation of Advanced Analytics reporting.

9.53 IP Filter Availability

The IP filter is conditional.

It is displayed only when IP-storage functionality is enabled by the Analytics system.

If you do not see an IP filter, this does not necessarily indicate a problem.

The function may simply not be available under the current configuration.

9.54 Date Range and Filters Work Together

The most useful Analytics analysis often combines both tools.

Think of the process as:

Website → Date Range → Audience/Traffic Filter → Analytics Result

For example:

Question

How did mobile users from a LinkedIn campaign behave during the current month?

Configuration

Date Range:

This month

Filter 1:

Device → Is → mobile

Filter 2:

UTM Source → Is → linkedin

Then review:

  1. Pageviews
  2. Visitors
  3. Pages
  4. Goals
  5. Referrers
  6. Other applicable reports

9.55 Example — Analyze a Landing Page

Suppose you want to measure a sales landing page.

Set:

Date Range: Last 30 days

Add:

Path → Is → /sales

You can now focus Dashboard reporting on activity associated with that Website path.

9.56 Example — Analyze a Website Section

Suppose all product pages begin with:

/products/

Use:

Path → Starts with → /products/

This allows you to focus on the Website's product section rather than one specific page.

9.57 Example — Analyze Organic or Referral Traffic

If you want to investigate traffic from a particular referring host:

Referrer host → Is → specified-source

Then select the desired reporting period.

This allows you to evaluate how traffic from that source behaves within Analytics.

9.58 Example — Analyze a Marketing Campaign

Suppose URLs for a campaign use:

utm_campaign=summer_sale

Configure:

Date Range: Campaign dates

UTM campaign → Is → summer_sale

You can then review the Website activity generated during that campaign.

For more detail, add another filter such as:

UTM source → Is → facebook

This creates a more specific campaign segment.

9.59 Example — Mobile Performance Analysis

To examine Mobile users:

Device → Is → mobile

Then review applicable Dashboard data.

This can help answer:

  1. Which pages Mobile users visit
  2. Which sources send Mobile traffic
  3. Which Goals Mobile users complete
  4. Which countries Mobile users come from
  5. Whether Mobile behavior differs from overall traffic

9.60 Example — Excluding an Audience

Filters can also exclude values.

For example:

Country Code → Is not → US

would remove the specified country from the matching Analytics segment.

This can be useful when analyzing international Website activity separately from a primary domestic audience.

9.61 Filters Affect Dashboard Totals

Active filters do more than change individual tables.

For the Advanced Dashboard, the source applies the active Visitor and Session/Event filter conditions while calculating the Dashboard data, including the Pageviews, Sessions, and Visitors reporting structure.

Lightweight Dashboard processing similarly applies the Lightweight Analytics filters.

Therefore, once filters are active, the top Dashboard totals should be understood as:

Totals for the selected date range and active filter segment

rather than the Website's unrestricted totals.

9.62 Filters and Exported Dashboard Data

The Dashboard's CSV and JSON export processing also retrieves the active date range and applicable Analytics filters.

This means filtering can be useful when you want to export a specific audience or reporting period rather than unrestricted Website Analytics.

Export functionality is covered in greater detail later in this manual.

9.63 Check Filters When Data Seems Missing

If Analytics suddenly appears to contain fewer Pageviews, Visitors, or records than expected, check:

  1. The selected Website.
  2. The selected Date Range.
  3. The Active filters panel.

A previously selected filter may still be restricting your Analytics results.

Before troubleshooting the Tracking Code, verify that you have not unintentionally limited the report.

9.64 Date Range Troubleshooting

If expected historical data is missing:

Check the current date range

You may be viewing:

Today

when you intended:

Last 30 days

or:

This month

when you intended:

All time

Check the Website creation date

The date selector cannot report Website Analytics earlier than the Website's available Analytics history. The date control uses the Website's creation date as its minimum selectable date.

9.65 Filter Troubleshooting

If a filter produces no results:

Check:

  1. Correct Website selected
  2. Correct reporting period
  3. Correct filter field
  4. Correct filter value
  5. Correct matching rule
  6. Spelling of the entered value
  7. Whether multiple filters are narrowing the result too far

Remember that multiple filters are combined using AND logic.

For example:

Country = US

AND

Device = mobile

AND

Campaign = campaign_a

requires Analytics records to satisfy all three applicable conditions.

9.66 Recommended Analysis Workflow

For consistent reporting, use this process:

  1. Select the correct Website.
  2. Choose the Date Range.
  3. Review the unfiltered Dashboard.
  4. Decide what business question you want to answer.
  5. Open Filter.
  6. Add the smallest number of filters needed.
  7. Click Update.
  8. Review the Dashboard again.
  9. Open supporting Analytics reports.
  10. Export the filtered data if needed.
  11. Remove unnecessary filters before beginning a different analysis.

This prevents old filters from accidentally affecting a new report.

9.67 Business Questions You Can Answer with Filters

Filters can help answer questions such as:

Marketing

  1. Which campaign is producing traffic?
  2. Which UTM Source drives Website activity?
  3. Which referral source sends visitors?
  4. Which campaign attracts Mobile users?

Audience

  1. Which countries generate traffic?
  2. Which cities are active?
  3. Which devices are most common?
  4. Which browsers and operating systems are used?

Website Content

  1. How is a particular page performing?
  2. How is an entire Website section performing?
  3. What happens on pages containing a particular path?

Technical

  1. Does one browser behave differently?
  2. Is a particular operating system associated with unusual behavior?
  3. Are specific screen sizes producing different results?

9.68 Recommended Reporting Practice

When preparing Analytics reports for your business, client, sales team, or organization, record the reporting conditions along with the results.

For example:

Website: AIUNIFY Corporate Website

Period: Last 30 Days

Filter: Device = Mobile

UTM Source: LinkedIn

This prevents someone reviewing the report from assuming that the numbers represent all Website traffic.

9.69 Date Range and Filter Checklist

Before interpreting an Analytics report, confirm:

  1. Correct Website selected
  2. Correct Date Range selected
  3. Account Timezone is correct
  4. Date Range covers the intended period
  5. Active Filters reviewed
  6. Correct Filter fields selected
  7. Correct Filter rules selected
  8. Correct Filter values entered
  9. Multiple Filters are intentionally combined
  10. Old Filters removed when no longer needed
  11. Tracking Type considered when evaluating available Filters
  12. Results reviewed after clicking Update

9.70 What You Should Know Before Moving On

You should now understand how to control which Analytics data you are looking at.

The reporting process can be viewed as:

Select Website

→ Select Date Range

→ Add Filters

→ Update

→ Analyze Results

The system provides predefined date ranges from Today through All time, uses your configured timezone, remembers your selected reporting dates, and allows detailed filtering by visitor, device, location, Website path, referral, and UTM information.

Its Analytics Filters support the exact matching rules Is, Is not, Contains, Starts with, and Ends with, and multiple active filters are combined to narrow the resulting dataset.



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