Working with the Live Montoring Tool

The live monitoring tool enables you to see on line your website traffic ad-hoc and also filter special events real-time.

We developed this tool specially for companies with a B2B or B2C E-Commerce Site, and want to know when a sell has been done, or any other event you may value. To resolve that problem you can listen the vists, and also listen a sound when that occurs, for example, listen when a product has been sold at the right moment, without waiting.

At the right you have an example of the Live Traffic list, the visits appear at the right moment you are receiving them on your webpage or blog.

It is highly recommended that you try it by yourself.
At the bottom you have the Enable patterns checkbox, this add-on can be used to specify a filter to see only the visits that interests you, by specifying a pattern also works faster than not using it, because of the sites plugin solution internal architecture. To know more about patterns, read the next section "What the Patterns are" where it is explained which wildcards can be used.

What the Patterns are

Explaining patterns is easier and faster (for sure your time is valuable) with a short and strong example. Suppose you want to see only the visits to your site that match the string:

http://www.yoursitedemo.com/PurchaseDone.wss?id=33

This example is not casual, the important string that is important for you is PurchaseDone.wss because this means a product has been sold. The question is, how can this generic string be captured, whathever comes before and after that word in the string ? This is done by using something called "WildCards" in any programming language.

1) Click on the Enable Patterns checkbox
2) Write the pattern *PurchaseDone*
3) Press the button Set Pattern

Wildcards accepted

The most important wildcard is the asterisk "*" because it matches any string. The dollar sign "$" specifies that the regular expression should match up to the end of the string.
This strings can be specified:

Example 1: */login.php$
Would match:
http://www.test.com/login.php
http://www.test.com/a/b/c/login.php
Would not match:
http://www.test.com/login.php?user=test50
This last example would not match because as it was described earlier, the dollar sign specifies that the regular expression determines strictly that the match is done at the end of the string.