URL tracking

[neofactor]

I had some questions about user tracking.
I was tracking the following info on each hit...

<cfquery datasource=&quot;#request.DSN#&quot;>
INSERT INTO tb_hittracker
(hit_IDTAG, hit_date, hit_ip, hit_server, hit_url, hit_browser, hit_pathinfo ,hit_referer)

VALUES(
'#URL.ID#',#now()#, '#CGI.REMOTE_ADDR#',
'#CGI.SERVER_NAME#', '#CGI.PATH_INFO#',
'#CGI.HTTP_USER_AGENT#', '#CGI.QUERY_STRING#',
'#CGI.HTTP_REFERER#')
</cfquery>

But I feel limited in what I can track...
Places like Extreme Tracking can track so much more:

http://www.extreme-dm.com/tracking/sample/nph-summary.cgi?tag=example

How do i track all that other cool stuff? Screen size, referals to my page, ect... the referer cgi just returns to me the page that I came from.

Any advise at all? Anyone?

David McIntosh

http://www.neofactor.com

 

[pigsie]

Most packages like the one you mentioned actually parse the web server logs and change them into a form which makes more sense. You'll find most of the information such as pages visited, refferers etc are in the webserver logs.

HTH

Incidentally perhaps you should also look into client variables i think there are some built in ones which hold info such as last visit etc.

Pigsie

 

[neofactor]

I figured it out...

Javascript...
document.write and image tag that includes screen.height width depth ect...

if they use javascript... most poeple do. if they dont... I use a different call.

either way I get a lot of info.

The things that use the logs on the server is nice and all, but not if you do not have access to them.

David McIntosh

http://www.neofactor.com