Sessions

Each distinct visit to your site is called a session. It's the equivalent to a "visit" in most analytics products, or a click in other click fraud tools. Each new device visiting your site creates a new session. After around 30 minutes of inactivity, if the same visitor returns, they'll start a new session.

If the click has an ad network ID, for example if it's a Google Ads click, each distinct click ID will be treated as a new session.

Listing all sessions

You can view a list of sessions for the selected site by clicking Sessions on the menu.

You can apply filters to narrow down the list of sessions that you see here. You can also change the date range using the date selector at the top right of the page. All the same filters available for analytics can be applied to sessions.

Click anywhere on a session row, or the ➔ icon to see the detail behind it.

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You can scroll the session rows horizontally to see more columns.

Switching to analytics

Click the Switch to analytics button at the top right to apply the same filters and date period to analytics. This allows you to explore the metrics and dimensions behind a list of sessions.

Session detail

The session detail has all the data that Hitprobe knows about the session. There's a summary at the top along with a map showing the location of the session, with more details further down the page.

See the full list of datapoints to learn about all data you'll see here.

Exclude IP, network, or domain

Click Exclude IP, Exclude network, or Exclude domain to quickly add the item to the relevant exclusion list. On success, the option will be disabled and it will show that the item is now excluded.

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You can't remove from exclusion lists on the session detail page, but you can do that in the exclusion list areas of the console.

Exclude or allow country

Depending on whether your site is configured to exclude countries (rule them out) or allow them (rule them in), you'll either have an Exclude country or Allow country option on the IP & network > Country row. This adds the country to the country list with one click.

Filter sessions / filter analytics shortcuts

You can click the icons next to most datapoints to filter the sessions list, or view analytics, filtered by that value.

This allows you to easily review associated sessions to check if they're likely to be the same visitor or not.