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Posted by johnny on 04/05/06 17:19
hi all!
I am starting to study the best way to track site visitors.
Logfiles stats which come with every web hosting, have little metrics
to be analyzed and also problems with cached pages which are not seen.
I thought to use php and cookies to track returning visitors, however I
see that all pro solutions use javascript to set cookies.
Now since I prefer to avoid js as much as I can cause they can be
blocked by browser settings, is it the same to use php to set cookies ?
I think that page tagging solutions also rely on a remote script to
read cookie and inserting data on a text file or a database table, so
php should be fine, however i wonder if with php I could have the same
caching problem as with log files, I mean maybe only javascript being a
client side language can avoid the cached pages problem?
How do u track your visitors?
probably the best option is to read log files for server metrics such
as spiders visits, error pages , and using page tagging with
javascript or php for more qualitative tasks such as conversions,
keywords referrer and so on.
TIA
johnny
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