Loghound 1.8: a Search Box on the Session Explorer

Loghound, the free and open-source traffic analyser that runs on your own server and keeps what it learns in your own Opensolr indexes, gets a search box on the session explorer. It was kept off the page because it pushed the visit list below the fold of a phone; on a desk it costs one row, and it is the fastest way to answer where a visitor came from.

01 Search the visits, on a desk

A search card sits above the visit list, and the list starts right under it. Type a word and the list narrows to the sessions that carry it in any of seven fields: the pages visited, the User-Agent, the AS organisation, the network name, the reverse DNS name, the city and the country code. Two words must both match. The search is a bookmarkable address, it works with JavaScript off, and the CSV export of the list carries the query with it.

• Your scope travels with the search: the duration and every applied filter are kept, so a search never widens what you were looking at.
• Any piece of a value matches: telus finds a visitor whose network is TELUS-154-20, billing finds every visit that opened a billing page, and a whole User-Agent pasted in finds exactly that client.
• Desktop only: a phone or tablet does without the card, and the visit list keeps the whole screen it was given.

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