User's Manual
Chapter 8: Accessing Functions from the Back-end – Super Administrator
Joomla! 1.0.11 User Manual 153 Version 1.0.1.
improve the performance of your site.
Cache Folder:
This is the folder or directory to store the cache files. This must be writeable for caching
to be successful. Contact your Web Master if you have any difficulties.
Cache Time:
Edit the maximum length of time, in seconds, for a cache file to be stored before it
refreshes.
StatisticsTab:
Figure 127: Global Configuration screen - Statistics Tab
Field Name Details/Options
Statistics:
Choose Yes, to allow the browser and visitor domain statistics to be collected
based on settings in the Content Tab. If this is set to No, the browser and visitor
statistics will not be collected. If your site experiences a slight
delay the first
time a user visits the site you should set this to No.
Log Content Hits by
Date:
Choose Yes to enable logging of the hits on Content Items, on a daily basis.
There are currently no in-built analysis routines, to complement this logging
feature.
WARNING!:
This will tend to collect masses of data over time. Be sure that your server
space has the space to store this information.
Log Search Strings:
Choose Yes to enable logging of the search text, entered by a user. Such
logging facilitates the 'tuning' of your web site, giving you an insight into how
your visitors are trying to find the information they seek. Analysis reporting is
provided under Site->Statistics->Search Text.
SEOTab:
Figure 128: Global Configuration screen - SEO Tab
Fieldname Description
Search Engine Friendly URLs:
This changes the way site links are presented and optimises them so
that search engines can access more of your site. This option is ONLY
available to sites hosted on Apache servers. Choose Yes to enable
Joomla! to output friendly URLs rather than normal database generated
URLs. If you use this option, you must rename your htaccess.txt file to
.htaccess.
Dynamic Page Titles:
Choose Yes to set the page titles (that appear at the top of a viewers
browser) to be the same as the page title they are viewing. Again, this