Measured sites

Measured sites is the Settings card with two lists that decide whether some data exists at all: the hostnames the beacon may speak for, and the URL parameters kept as search terms. Both are edited here, in the panel. You never edit a file on the server for them.

1. Open Settings › Measured sites.
2. Type a hostname in the empty row of Hostnames that may create visits: hostname only, no scheme, no path, no port. shop.example.com, not https://shop.example.com/.
3. Press Save measured sites. An entry that is not a valid hostname is refused and reported, never stored.

• Subdomains are not implied. List each one you measure.
• A site on another server, where the beacon is the only thing that reaches Loghound, must be listed or its visits never appear. A site on another server explains how those visits are built.
• List the sites whose logs Loghound reads too, if they carry the beacon. A beacon from a hostname that is not listed still adds time on site and interactions to the visit, but its automation signals, its search terms and its hostname are not kept.
• Tick Remove on a row and save to take a hostname off.

1. In Parameter names, type the query-string parameters your own search box uses, separated by commas or spaces, for example q, s, search.
2. Press Save search parameters.

• Empty on a new installation, which collects nothing.
• Terms are kept from the next visit on. Naming a parameter does not recover anything already seen.
• The list works on both planes: the log reader pulls the same parameters out of request lines, and the beacon sends them from the page. The snippet on the Beacon card adds data-params with your list, so copy it again after a change.
• Names are lower-cased and checked. A name that does not survive the check is reported, because a typo here would quietly collect nothing for months.