# Email reports and alerts

SleekTrack can email the numbers to people who never open the WordPress
admin: a report on a weekly or monthly cadence for a site or a group, and an
alert when a site suddenly has many visitors at once. Both are set in the
**Email reports** section of a site or a group, beside its dashboard,
and go out through WordPress's own email sending, so the site needs working
email.

## Reports

- **Schedule**: **Off**, **Weekly, on Monday** or **Monthly, on the 1st**
- **Report recipients**: one address per line, up to 20

A weekly report covers Monday to Sunday of the week that just closed, a
monthly report the calendar month, both in the site's timezone. Each lists
**Unique visitors**, **Total visits**, **Total pageviews**, **Bounce rate**
and **Visit duration** with the change against the period before, and the
five top sources and pages. A group's report rolls up its sites.

Reports go out with the hourly SleekTrack job, so they arrive within the
first hour or so of the Monday or the 1st. A job that runs late still sends
the report once. Choosing a cadence starts it with the next period that
closes, never at once. **Send test report** sends the report for the last
closed period right away to the recipients you saved.

## Visitor spike alerts

In a site's **Email reports** section, under **Visitor spike alert**:

- **Visitors at once**: the number of people on the site at the same time
  that triggers an email; **0** turns the alert off
- **Alert recipients**: one address per line

Every five minutes SleekTrack compares the site's realtime count, the
visitors of the last five minutes, with the threshold. Passing it sends one
email; the next needs the count to fall back below the threshold and an hour
to pass since the last alert.