Configure a project
Open the Project Manager using your owner account, select the intended project and open Configuration. Here you can change project information and data collection settings.
Change the title, description and icon
- Under General Information, edit the Project Title and Project Description.
- For Project icon, optionally enter the full HTTPS URL of a publicly accessible image. Image uploads are not available here.
- Alternatively, choose Use website icon to search the saved website address for an icon. This preserves your title and description.
- Check the preview and choose Save Information. Wait for the success message.
Remove icon clears the selection; you must save this change too. A missing icon or an image that cannot be displayed uses a placeholder. Finding a preview does not guarantee that the image will remain available later.
The title and description identify your project in the manager. They do not change your website content, page titles or search-engine descriptions.
Set the tracking mode and banner
Under Data collection, choose Anonymous Mode or Consent Mode. For a Consent project, also choose whether to use the TrafficInsight cookie banner or a banner from another provider.
The project mode and a visitor's decision are separate settings. A Consent project waits for a known banner signal; an Anonymous project starts anonymous tracking directly. Anonymous & Consent Mode explains acceptance, rejection and changes during a visit.
Check installation after switching
Save the configuration, then reopen the Installation Guide. A different mode, banner or additional crawler tracking may require different files and installation steps. Selecting an existing cookie banner in the manager does not itself connect that banner to the tracker.
Control crawlers and automatic page discovery
The following switches are available under Data collection and Advanced settings:
| Setting | Effect |
|---|---|
| Crawler and search engine bot collection | Turns additional crawler tracking on or off. This requires the PHP installation on your website. |
| Automatically save pages found by crawlers | Allows crawler tracking to create individual pages for unknown paths while page slots are available. When disabled, unknown paths remain in crawler aggregate totals. |
| Analyze only pages listed in the XML sitemap | Prevents browser requests from automatically creating individual pages for unknown paths. These requests can still contribute to overall traffic. |
The sitemap switch does not check the current XML sitemap on every request. Known active project pages are still tracked individually, even if absent from the last sitemap result. It neither disables existing pages nor controls automatic page discovery by crawlers.
Use a fixed selection of pages
To add new individual pages only through an explicit selection:
- Enable Analyze only pages listed in the XML sitemap.
- Disable Automatically save pages found by crawlers if you track crawlers.
- Choose Save configuration.
- Under Project pages, review the paths already active. Disable any you no longer want to analyse individually.
- Recheck the sitemap when needed and explicitly import the new suggestions you want.
Project pages & sitemap explains these steps. Disabling an individual page does not stop its contribution to overall traffic. To exclude only your own browser visits, use the tracking exception.
Save and check changes
Save Information and Save configuration belong to separate forms. If you change both sections, save both. Saving one section does not apply pending changes in the other.
After changing data collection:
- Wait for the success message. If saving fails, read the notice and retry before leaving the page.
- Check the Installation Guide and update your website installation where necessary.
- Fully reload a normal website page and test a visitor request. Consider the banner decision and any active tracking exception.
- If crawler tracking is enabled, also test bot detection.
- Check the correct project and time range in the app.
These changes do not rewrite existing statistics retrospectively. The project time zone set during creation remains fixed; you can find it on the Project Dashboard.
Locked or deleted projects cannot be edited here. A pending management operation can also temporarily block changes. For paused or offline projects, saving does not restore tracking availability: check project status. If data is missing, see Troubleshooting.