Course Description

IBM Tivoli Web Site Analyzer is a powerful Web analytic tool that can provide you with a comprehensive view of your e-business. Tivoli Web Site Analyzer can be used to analyze content (site construction), structure (including broken links, unavailable resources, embedded images and slow-loading images), traffic (including hits, page views, and sessions), commerce (including information on shopping carts and merchandising), and visitors (including information such as new customers, repeat customers, and how users navigate within your site).

In this course, you will learn about the solution that IBM Tivoli Web Site Analyzer provides, how to install the application, how to operate Web Site Analyzer, how to customize the reports that the application produces, and how to perform administration tasks for the application.

Class Length
2 days

Objectives

• This course enables you to build the necessary knowledge and skills to:
• Install and configure WebSphere Site Analyzer
• Describe Site Analyzer Components
• Resource Mgr
• Scheduler
• Clickstream
• Reverse DNS
• Transformation
• Site Crawler
• Page Inspector
• Create custom report elements
• Use Web Tracker to instrument web pages
• Learn the importance of Web analytics to eBusiness
• Install and configure Site Analyzer software
• Configure Web server log settings to work with Site Analyzer
• Create and run content and usage analyses
• Create report elements
• Generate and examine reports from the analyses

Who will benefit from this course
Anyone who needs to know how to install, configure, or operate IBM Tivoli Web Site Analyzer should participate in this course.

Required Skills Knowledge
Participants should possess the following skills prior to attending this course:

• Web analytics concepts
• Working knowledge of IBM WebSphere Application Server
• Intermediate DBA skills, including SQL query performance
• Javascript and JSP concepts

Prior to attending this course, it is recommended that students attend the following courses or have equivelant professional experience:

• e-business Technology Fundamentals and IBM WebSphere Overview
• Administration of WebSphere Application Server V4.x (Advanced Edition)

Prerequisites

Prior to attending this course, it is recommended that students attend the following courses or have equivelant professional experience:

• e-business Technology Fundamentals and IBM WebSphere Overview
• Administration of WebSphere Application Server V4.x (Advanced Edition)

Course Outline

• Unit 1: Overview of Web Analytics and IBM Tivoli Web Site Analyzer
• Unit 2: Architecture, Installation and Configuration of Tivoli Web Site Analyzer
• Unit 3: Running Tivoli Web Site Analyzer within IBM WebSphere
• Unit 4: Analyzing Log Files
• Unit 5: WebTracker and configuring (instrumenting) Web Pages to support WebTracker
• Unit 6: Report Elements, categories and aggregates