I am trying to re-create the report "Visitors by number of visits" in a custom report. I can not find the dimension "Numer of visits". Am I blind ?

Dave

Create it. You have to have Visitor History on, of course. There's an internal Visitor History parameter created by the Visitor History part of the program. It's "WT.vr.vc". (All the VH parameters start with WT.vr. You don't have to do anything to get them besides turn on VH.)

So create a custom dimension based on Query Parameter and specify this parameter. I've never done this but I think this is the right procedure.

For a list of all the Visitor History internal parameters, which are automatically created if you have VH turned on, search the Advanced Configuration Guide for WT.vr.vc. I count 73 of these parameters, and few of them are pre-listed in Dimensions.

This report uses visitors as the measure. However the standard measures include only daily, weekly, monthly visitors and so on. Would I need to create my own visitors measure as well?

Peter, those are the visitors measure. There isn't a single visitors measure. If you are looking at a week of data, you pay attention to the weekly visitors measure. If you're looking at a money, pay attention to the monthly visitors measure, and so on. It's a little kludgey but it works. WebTrends also has a dynamic visitors measure that will choose the correct time period for you, depending on the time period you are looking at.

Thanks Chris, I am referring to the dynamic visitors measure. WHen trying to make a custom report I cannot see the dynamic visitors measure(am I blind??)

It seems to show up in the reports on its own, if you have activated enough of the visitors measures.

ChrisG - this is the first time I've read this information about which visitors measure to use for each time increment, such as if interested in tracking money use the monthly visitors measure. Is this written in the docs someplace, or did you learn these the 'hard way'? This is very interesting information!

I believe the "Dynamic Visitors" measure will only show up if you add all of the individual visitor measures for the particular dimension; daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly.

This information is not [officially] documented. A "WebTrends for Dummies" book that includes these little nuggets would be nice.