Helpful tips for eliminating bad data from Urchin reports

Urchin is Web based software that reads the server logs and gives reports based on user habits on the WOU Web site. Unfortunately sometimes there is too much information that needs to be filtered out. Here is a filter (regular expression) for removing non-essential file types from most reports that look at requested pages.

NOTE:You will need a basic knowledge of how to use the software

1. Begin by creating a report with your folder/file location and date range
2. To eliminate all non-html pages/files from your report, follow these instructions
   
   1. copy this text
   
   
   2. (\.php|\.html|\.htm|^([/a-zA-z0-9_\-]*)$)
   
   
   3. or to include Word and PDF documents use this text
   
   
   4. (\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.pdf|\.doc|^([/a-zA-z0-9_\-]*)$)
   
   
   5. paste the text into the same box you entered the folder location for the report and hit the plus button

Also the Urchin software was sold to Google who has integrated it into their analytics software. If you want more information on filters visit http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=11091