📘 This provides explains how to use filters to customize Botify reports.
Overview
The depth and breadth of data in Botify can help you analyze any SEO need. Filtering this data is essential to quickly getting the reports that best meet your goals. You can filter Botify data in the following ways:
👉 Filtering Botify data in any way is unique to your user account; your selections do not affect the data display for other users.
Filtering by Date
Report dates are available at the top left side of the report page. The report’s data source and your Botify plan determine the available dates. In some reports, this is a single date range (e.g., LogAnalyzer); in others, there are two dates you select individually to compare (e.g., SiteCrawler).
To change selected dates, click the arrow next to the date and then make a selection. When you navigate away from the current report, the date selections remain the same throughout the current Botify capability.
When comparing Botify reports, the date on the left is referred to as the "current" crawl/analysis, and the date on the right is the "compared" crawl/analysis:
Dates in RealKeywords
There are more comparison date ranges in RealKeywords since the reports have multiple data sources. Since the period of available data is dictated by each source, the available dates from each data source are displayed at the bottom of the period selector:
Report dates are in UTC time zone; this cannot be customized.
Filtering by Segments
Filtering Botify reports by segment is a powerful tool for analyzing business-oriented SEO goals (e.g., identifying groups of revenue-generating pages). While SiteCrawler includes the Segments visualization for performance by segment (SiteCrawler > Segments), you can also filter other reports by segments when the Segments filter is displayed at the top of the page:
To filter by segment:
Click the Segments link.
Select the checkbox next to the desired segments, and then click Apply. The report automatically filters data for the selected segments, and the label updates to reflect the applied segment values.
💡 Segment filters remain applied within the current Botify suite until you remove them. Segment filters are not automatically applied to other Botify suites. For example, if you applied the Spanish language segment filter in SiteCrawler (Analytics Suite), you must apply the filter again when you visit ActionBoard (Intelligence Suite).
To remove a segment filter:
Click the X next to the applied segment filters to remove all segments; or
Click the Segments link to remove individual segment filters.
Select the checkbox next to the segments you want to remove, then click Apply.
Read more about segmentation in the Segments Overview article.
Filtering Visualizations
You can apply Botify filters by clicking on one of the many data visualizations in Botify’s various reporting dashboards. Clicking on the data visualization directs you to the associated Explorer report with the corresponding filters applied to the crawled URLs that match the filter criteria.
For example, consider the following data visualization from the SiteCrawler Segments section to find the indexability of this site’s latest content:
Click on a segment’s yellow section to get a report of the segment’s non-indexable URLs in SiteCrawler’s URL Explorer:
You can now review this list of URLs to identify why they are not being indexed.
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