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Hello, dear readers of the blog site. When you surf the Internet, you use two mandatory tools for this task - a browser and a search engine (in RuNet this is most often Yandex).

Both of them know how to lead and store history of your visits, page views and search queries that you entered. If necessary, you can restore the chronology of events and find the page that you opened yesterday, or the query that you entered into Yandex search six months ago. It is very comfortable.

But often the opposite situation arises, when you need to erase all traces of your activity on the network. In this case, you have a question: how to delete history in Yandex? How to “clean up after yourself” in your browser? How to find and remove all other traces?

Today I just want to draw your attention to this topic. We will talk about both cleaning your searches and deleting all traces of your online activities in your browser (including the Yandex browser).

How to view the history of searches and views in Yandex?

As I mentioned above, history is kept not only by the browser, but also by search engines. For example, in Yandex, a special set of tools called "My Finds".

P.S. Unfortunately, Yandex developers considered this functionality unnecessary (unclaimed by users) and removed it completely. Now you won’t be able to dig into the history of your searches. Although, it seems they left it.
I decided not to delete the information below so that you can see what it all looked like before, if anyone finds it interesting.

It is there that you can delete the entire history of your communication with this search engine and, if desired, generally refuse to keep a log of your views and visits (although it may be useful, for example, in order to restore a page lost in bookmarks to which you came from Yandex, which is very convenient).

Which is used by more than half of RuNet users. Recently, we already looked at its settings, in particular, we talked in detail about, and also discussed in detail the issue: at a professional level. But the settings of this search engine are not limited to this, because there are also settings for the history of your visits, which are definitely worth touching on.

So, first you will need to go to the main page of this search engine. It is from this that we can get to the settings section we need, which are accessible from the drop-down menu of the gear located in the upper right corner.

We select the lowest item “Other settings”, and on the page that opens we will be interested in, in terms of studying the history of your actions in Yandex, two items of the menu given there:

When you click on the item “Search results settings” you can at the very bottom of the page that opens allow or block the search engine from logging with the history of your search queries, pages visited, and you can also separately prohibit or allow the use of this data to generate search results and search suggestions.

Here you can only sort of disable or enable history recording, but you can see what has already been recorded by clicking on the inscription “My finds” (in both screenshots above). Here you will find a lot of interesting things and will be able to restore previously found but then lost information. Yandex search history is quite a powerful tool:

Here, using the switch located in the upper left corner, you can again stop or re-enable event log recording. In the left column you can separately view the history of your search queries, products in the Yandex Market store, and you can also save and download (export) all this data if necessary.

At the very top there is a time line, which will very quickly allow you to move to the moment where you want to find something or, conversely, delete it from the history of your visits on Yandex. If you have accumulated a huge number of requests, views and other requests, you can use history search, whose line is located directly above the timeline. Oddly enough, this is not at all an obvious action - searching according to search results.

How to partially delete or completely clear history in Yandex?

P.S. As I wrote above, Yandex completely destroyed the “My Finds” service, but the opportunity remained "Clear query history" on the linked page. There you can click on the button of the same name.

As you've probably already noticed, you don't have to clear the entire history, but delete some individual requests or pages visited, simply by clicking on the cross next to them. This request and all the pages you went to when searching for an answer to it will be deleted.

For example, when viewing the Yandex Market magazine, you can delete individual viewed products from it, or you can clear the entire history using the button of the same name located at the top:

By the way, I forgot to say that the search history will be saved (written) only if you are authorized in Yandex (you can see your login in the upper right corner). If you are not authorized, then no “My Finds” will be available to you, which means there will be nothing to clear.

Yandex, of course, still keeps its own internal statistics, but there you will appear only as the IP address of your computer or as the one through which you searched. You won’t be able to delete this history (only), but almost no one will be able to access it, so you don’t have to worry about it. IMHO.

If you want to, . If this doesn’t seem enough, then , which allows you to leave virtually no traces on the network, so you don’t have to delete your history on Yandex or anywhere else.

Yes, I almost forgot to tell you, how to clear all Yandex history en masse, not one at a time. To do this, on the “My Finds” page you will need to click on the “Settings” button located in the upper right corner:

Well, on the page that opens you can both stop recording and completely clear the already accumulated history using the button there:

This is all about the search engine and the statistics of your activity maintained in it.

How to view and clear Yandex Browser history?

However, the history is kept not only by the search engine, but also by the browser you use. If this is enough (see), then it also keeps a history of views and pages you visited, which means there may be an urgent need to clear it. How to do it? Let's get a look.

To call the history clearing window, you can use key combination Ctrl+Shift+Delete, while in the browser window, or go from the button menu with three horizontal stripes in the browser settings and find the “Clear history” button there.

In both cases, the same window will open for deleting the history of your Internet browsing using the Yandex browser:

Here you need to select the period for which the entire history will be deleted (for complete clearing, it is better to select the “All time” option), tick the required fields, and click on the corresponding button below. That's it, your browser history will be completely cleared.

Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site

Step 1. Browsing History

To open Yandex Browser history, you need to go to the settings menu (see picture below):

Select " Settings »:

Here we will see the entire history of visits to web pages specifically from the Yandex Browser, unless, of course, you transferred the settings from another browser. You can click on any link to go back to the site.

Alternatively, you can add a blank tab and then switch between sections " Scoreboard" And " Recently closed " In the latter we will see the icon “ Story »:

There is also another option using the menu. Let's go again settings menu → « Story » → « Story »:

You can also just press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+H to bring up the history manager.

Step 2. Download History

Similarly, you can see the history of all downloaded files. Opening settings menu → « Story » → « Downloads »:

Or we go through settings menu → « Settings" And already there we switch to the tab “ Downloads »:

Step 3: Uninstall

If you do not want anyone to see this data, you can clear both your download history and the history of visited sites.

Click Ctrl+H and select " Clear the history "(at the top right of the screen):

A window will appear where we will be asked to delete cookies, browsing history, downloads and cache:

In the column " Remove the following items » set « during all this time " and press the button " Clear the history " But please note that if you delete all cookies, you will have to re-enter your registration data on those sites where you have accounts.

Good day.

It turns out that not all users know that by default any browser remembers the history of the pages you visit. And even if several weeks, or maybe months, have passed, by opening the browser log, you can find the treasured page (unless, of course, you cleared your browsing history...).

In general, this option is quite useful: you can find a previously visited site (if you forgot to add it to your favorites), or see what other users sitting at this PC are interested in. In this short article I want to show how you can view your history in popular browsers, as well as how to quickly and easily clear it. So…

How to view your browsing history in your browser...

In most browsers, to open your website history, just press the button combination: Ctrl+Shift+H or Ctrl+H.

Google Chrome

In Chrome, in the upper right corner of the window there is a “list button”, when clicked, a context menu opens: in it you need to select the “History“ option. By the way, the so-called shortcut keys are also supported: Ctrl+H (see Fig. 1).

Rice. 1 Google Chrome

The history itself is a regular list of Internet page addresses, which are sorted depending on the date of visit. It is quite easy to find sites that you visited, for example, yesterday (see Fig. 2).

Rice. 2 History in Chrome

Firefox

The second most popular browser (after Chrome) at the beginning of 2015. To enter the journal, you can press the quick buttons (Ctrl+Shift+H), or you can open the “Journal” menu and select the “Journal” item from the context menu Show entire log«.

By the way, if you don’t have a top menu (file, edit, view, log...) - just press the left “ALT” button on your keyboard (see Fig. 3).

Rice. 3 Opening a log in Firefox

By the way, in my opinion, Firefox has the most convenient visiting library: you can select links from yesterday, from the last 7 days, or from the last month. Very convenient when searching!

Rice. 4 Visit Library in Firefox

Opera

In the Opera browser, viewing history is very simple: click on the icon of the same name in the upper left corner and select “History” from the context menu (by the way, Ctrl+H shortcuts are also supported).

Rice. 5 View history in Opera

Yandex browser

The Yandex browser is very similar to Chrome, so almost everything is the same here: click on the “list” icon in the upper right corner of the screen and select “ History/History Manager"(or simply press the Ctrl+H buttons, see Fig. 6).

Rice. 6 Viewing your visit history in the Yandex browser

Internet Explorer

Well, the last browser that I just couldn’t help but include in the review. To view the history in it, just click on the “star” icon on the toolbar: then a side menu should appear in which you simply select the “Journal” section.

By the way, in my opinion, it’s not entirely logical to hide your visit history under the “star”, which most users associate with favorites...

Rice. 7 Internet Explorer…

How to clear history in all browsers at once

You can, of course, manually delete everything from your history if you don't want anyone to be able to view your history. Or you can simply use special utilities that will clear the entire history in all browsers in a matter of seconds (sometimes minutes)!

One of the most popular programs for cleaning Windows from “garbage”. It also allows you to clean the registry from erroneous entries, remove programs that cannot be removed in the usual way, etc.

Using the utility is very simple: launch the utility, click the analysis button, then check the boxes where necessary and click the clear button (by the way, browser history is Internet History).

Rice. 8 CCleaner - cleaning history.

In this review, I couldn’t help but mention another utility that sometimes shows even better results in disk cleaning - Wise Disk Cleaner.

Alternative to CCleaner. Allows you not only to clean the disk from various types of junk files, but also to perform defragmentation (this will be useful for the speed of the hard drive if you haven’t done it for a very long time).

Using the utility is just as simple (besides, it supports the Russian language) - first you need to click the analysis button, then agree with the cleaning points that the program has assigned, and then click the cleanup button.

That's all for me, good luck everyone!

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Views in Metrica are an indicator that reflects the number of site page downloads.

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Views include visits from other Internet resources, page reloads, and transitions within the site.

The Metrica help states that those who viewed the page for less than 15 seconds are not counted.

In a development environment, they may also be called hits. The term comes from the English hit, which means downloading or receiving a file from a server.

If you care about how your site works, who visits it, from where and how often, you should monitor activity. Analytics counters are the first assistants. Installing them is easy, mastering basic reports and navigating the interface is also not difficult, you just need to set aside a little time. And then you won’t notice how you will get involved and will open the statistics with great interest and see what’s new over the past day or week.

Basic terms

To understand what we are talking about, you need to know the basic definitions.

Among the key terms, it is important to learn and understand the following.

Visit

Otherwise - session. Interaction session between the visitor and the resource. It is considered one of the main indicators in analytics counters. It is on this basis that statistics are kept.

The default duration is 30 minutes. If during this time the visitor has not performed any actions on the site, for example, transitions, downloads, the visit is considered completed. If, after this period, the user begins to show some activity again, the system will count this as a new visit.

The settings can be changed to set a longer absence interval.

A transition from advertising systems (contextual advertising Direct, Adwords, etc.) is counted as a separate visit. Even if a person came through an advertisement during the 30-minute “break”, each click on the ad will be a new visit.

Now you can figure out for yourself how visits differ from views in Metrica.

Visitors

This is the number of visitors that came to your website within a given period of time. The system collects unique browser IDs using . The only exception is a cross-device report (when a person accessed the website from several devices, for example, mobile, desktop and laptop).

If a person has cleared his cookies, he will be a new guest for Metrica.

View depth

Gives an idea of how many pages a person opened during the visit.

How to see views in Metrica

This indicator is included in the standard Attendance report. You can open it in one of the following ways.

Why should you analyze the number of page views in Metrica?

For clarity, let's look at an example.

Over the course of a month, 228 thousand unique visitors came to the site, that is, this is the number of real people. They generated 1.2 million page views. At the same time, the number of visits is about 351 thousand.

What can you do with these indicators? Well, of course, enlarge, compare, analyze:

If you are just starting full-fledged promotion, this data will become a starting point. Now you must increase each of the indicators in order to achieve the promotion goal - increasing profits. The more visitors, the more potential clients. The more visits, the greater the trust in your brand. The more views, the more interest in your products or articles. Try to work hard on increasing each of them.
When you have carried out a series of works and waited the time necessary for search engines to take into account the changes, it’s time to compare: what was and what has become. Understand whether you have achieved the result you planned, or whether there has been a positive trend. Based on what you see, take the necessary actions - continue working as planned or make adjustments.
When the indicators that you see in front of you are frankly confusing, it’s time for analysis. For example, it’s worth thinking about in cases where the number of views is not much greater than the number of visitors. An audit is also needed in a situation where the parameters in question have begun to decline.

You can also make additional settings by applying a filter or replacing absolute values with percentages to analyze the share of visitors from different sources.

Understanding the dynamics of numbers, what views are in Yandex Metrica and how to apply this information, you can derive a certain efficiency formula for your site. There is no single recipe; it will be different for each topic. For a news portal, when many pages are viewed, this is a plus. For an online store - not always. Model scenarios of behavior of an ideal buyer, compare at what stages deviation occurs and experiment.

Yandex browser remembers all the pages you visit on the Internet. This is quite a useful feature in some cases. For example, you visited a website, liked it, but forgot to add it to your bookmarks. You can always go back to history and look at this site.

If you want, you can go to the right page. You can read more about this by following the link.

Or, on the contrary, this function does not seem very useful, and you do not want anyone to see which sites were viewed. In this case, you need to completely delete your browser history or some of its elements.

Deleting history in the Yandex browser on Windows

Launch the browser and click on the menu button in the upper right corner. From the drop-down list, select the item with the appropriate name twice:

We show all pages visited for a certain time. In order to delete one of them, click on the arrow next to the site and select “Delete...” from the drop-down list:

To completely delete this list, click on the “Clear...” button, which is located on the same page, in the upper right corner:

In the window that opens, select the period of time for which you want to erase everything, and check the boxes next to the “browsing history” items, and you can also check the “... downloads” item:

Clearing history on your phone

Launch the browser and click on the menu button in the form of three dots in the upper right corner. From the drop-down list, select “Settings”:

Go to the “Confidentiality” section in the next step, and click on the “Clear data” button:

In the next window, leave a checkmark next to the appropriate item and that’s it, you don’t need to mark anything else, click on the “Clear data” button.

How to view history on Android on your phone

Launch the browser, click on the cross to create a new tab. Here it comes off, and on the left side of the tab you will see three icons. Click on the clock-shaped icon in the middle.