Re: Metrics Program-Access_Log Solution

From: Josh Carlson <jcarlson_at_insurancejournal.com>
Date: Thu 01 Jul 2004 06:37:37 -0500

"Thomas Bosilevac" <Bosilevac_Thomas_at_cat.com> wrote:

>Thanks Jim, (BTW, I love your e-metrics guide ebook!)

if you mean Jim Sterne, i'll agree I just bought a replacement
copy of Web Metrics since I left my last copy on the airplane :(

>The main reason behind our decision to not use SDC was for caching issues,
>not neccesarily privacy concerns. Our technical architecture relies
>heavily on caching pages. Furthermore, there is no way to load the header
>portion of a page template without reloading the entire page. Therefor,
>in order to redistribute the tracking bug each time a page is loaded
>(whether from the Back button or clicking through) we would have to load
>up the entire page, eliminating our cache strategy and overloading our
>servers.

kinda off-topic: but maybe partial page caching would work for
you. Not sure what your setup is but I really like Turck MMcache
for PHP http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net/ You can cache query
results, partial "dynamic" page pieces or whatever you like.
(http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk/ might also be of interest)

>I would highly recommend using WebTrends tagging strategy. Using log
>files is about as outdated as still counting visitor "hits" to analyze the
>popularity of your webpage. I am currently looking into using the SDC
>server for other internal projects here, just not our mega-site.

Client-side tagging (SSDC) is kinda interesting, but not really a
unique idea and has its own drawbacks. Neither server log file
analysis nor client-side tagging is completely accurate. Anyone
have any data which is *more* accurate? Seems like a pretty basic
system, has anyone built their own tracking system?

Josh Carlson
 





Received on Thu Jul 01 2004 - 06:37:37 CDT