--- title: Enabling activity tracking --- > Agent instructions: > **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown. > > - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version. > - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt). > **Info:** **Kentico EMS required** > > Features described on this page require the **Kentico EMS** license. To allow tracking of activities for [contacts](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/contact-management/working-with-contacts.md), you need to: 1. Open the **Settings** application. 2. Navigate to **On-line marketing** and ensure that the **Enable on-line marketing** setting is checked for your website. 3. Navigate to the **On-line marketing -> Contact management -> Activities** and enable the **Log activities** setting. 4. Enable or disable logging of specific [activity types](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/contact-management/tracking-contact-activities/reference-activity-types.md) using the other settings in the category. 5. **Save** the settings. You can additionally configure logging of activities for specific pages, users and certain features. The system only tracks activities within a given scope if all related settings are enabled. See the sections below for more information. If you only need to log activities on specific pages, consider [enabling activity tracking on these pages](#enabling-activities-for-specific-pages) only. ## Changing activity logging interval By default, the system batch-processes activities every 10 seconds. If your system processes a large number of activities, you may want to increase the interval. 1. Open your project's web.config file. 2. Add the following .config key into the _appSettings_ section of the file. Modify the value to reflect how you want to raise the activity processing interval. ```csharp title="Processing activities every 30 seconds" ``` 3. Save the file. > **Info:** **Tracking file downloads** > > The system can track file downloads as _Page visit_ activities for files stored as pages of the _CMS.File_ type in the content tree of a website. The **Track file downloads (cms.file) for these extensions** setting in the **General** section specifies which types of files the tracking includes. > > Enter the allowed file types as a list of extensions separated by semicolons, for example: _pdf;docx;png_ > > If left empty, the system tracks all file types. ## Enabling activities for specific pages You can enable or disable logging of page-related activities (e.g. _Page visit_, _Landing page_ or _Content rating_ activity types) for individual pages on your website. 1. Select the page representing the page in the **Pages** application. 2. Open the **Properties -> General** tab. 3. In the **On-line marketing** category, enable the **Log on-line marketing activity** property. - If the **Inherit** field is checked, the page loads the value from the parent page. 4. Click **Save**. By default, pages inherit the value of the **Log on-line marketing activity** property from their parent page. This state allows you to configure activity logging for all pages on the website through the root page. ### Selecting the logging method for page activities The system provides two different ways of logging activities related to website traffic (_Page visit_ and _Landing page_): | Processing activities on every web request | Using JavaScript | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | **Advantages**:
Provides statistics for all types of web requests. | **Advantages**:
Filters out activities generated by non-human tools such as RSS readers and web crawlers.
Provides more accurate and relevant data for most public-facing websites. | | **Disadvantages**:
May log irrelevant activities for non-human contacts such as web crawlers, RSS readers and other bots. | **Disadvantages**:
Ignores users with browsers that do not support [JavaScript](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript) or have it disabled (typically less than 1% of all visitors).
May not work correctly on pages that run custom JavaScripts (if conflicts occur). The logging is compatible with all default Kentico scripts. | > **Info:** In most cases, it is recommended to use JavaScript logging. Switching to JavaScript logging does not reduce the performance of the website. To enable JavaScript logging: 1. Open the **Settings**application. 2. Navigate to **On-line marketing -> Web Analytics**. 3. Enable the **Log via JavaScript snippet** setting. 4. Save the settings. > **Note:** **Note**: The **Log via JavaScript snippet** setting also determines how the system logs [web analytics](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/web-analytics.md). ## Disabling activity logging for users By default, the system tracks activities for all contacts. You can disable activity tracking for the [user accounts](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/managing-users.md) of registered users. 1. Open the **Users** application. 2. Find and **edit** () the given user account. 3. Switch to the **Settings** tab. 4. Disable the **Log activities** property. 5. Click **Save**. The activities performed by the registered user will no longer be recorded. ## Enabling activity logging for specific applications You can choose whether the system logs the related [activity types](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/contact-management/tracking-contact-activities/reference-activity-types.md) for individual instances of the following applications: | Application | Related activity types | To enable/disable activities | | --------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Email marketing | Subscription to a newsletter
Unsubscription from a single email feed
Opted out from all marketing emails
Opened marketing email
Clicked link in marketing email | Open the **Email marketing** application on the **Email feeds** tab.
**Edit** () an email feed.
Switch to the **Configuration** tab.
Enable the **Log on-line marketing activities** property. | | Forums | Forum post
Forum post subscription | Open the **Forums** application.
**Edit** () a forum group or specific forum.
Switch to the **General** tab.
Enable the **Log on-line marketing activity** property. | | Message boards | Message board comment
Message board subscription | Open the **Message boards** application.
Switch to the **Boards** tab.
**Edit** () a message board.
Switch to the **General** tab.
Enable the **Log on-line marketing activity** property. | | Polls | Poll voting | Open the **Polls** application.
**Edit**() a poll.
On the **General** tab, enable the **Log on-line marketing activity** property. |