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.