What the 'Where Your Citizens Are Coming From' report is
Explanation of sources and the chart
Introduction to the 'Where Your Citizens Are Coming From' report
This report is located on the Reports tab in MediaManager and includes data on how your site visitors navigated to your site. This includes both public facing pages and internal MediaManager pages. This report is helpful because it can show you where a majority of your website traffic is coming from.
Sources
How visitors get to your page is known as a 'source'. For example, they may click a link in an email or on another website, or they may type the link directly into the browser.
You can view data for the following sources:
Source
Description
Direct
Visitors typed the page URL into their browser or used a bookmark to access the page or stream.
Link
Visitors clicked a link to one of your pages or streams on other websites other than social networks.
Social
Visitors clicked a link to one of your pages or streams in a social network, e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn.
Email
Visitors clicked a link to one of your pages or streams in an email.
Search
Visitors found your page or stream while using a search engine, e.g., Google.
Explore the sources chart and table to see where your traffic is coming from (Figure 1). The data covers public-facing pages and internal MediaManager pages.
Hover over each source bar to view the percentage of traffic coming from each source, and see the total number of views resulting from each source.
Click a source bar to filter the table on the right. For example, click Link. The data in the table on the right changes accordingly.
Figure 1
Note: The table shows 10 records per page by default. If necessary, you can show 20, 30, or 40 records per page. You can also use the sort arrows at the top of the table to sort the sources in alphabetical order, and by most or least number of views.
