We have several websites on different domains and I'd like to be able to track users' movements on these sites. Obviously cookies are not feasable, because they don't cross domain borders. I could look at a combination of IP address and User Agent, but there are some cases where that does not work. I don't want to use flash or other p...
As the question states, I'm trying to figure out how google tracks clicks on search results. When you view the source, you find the following: <a href="http://www.yahoo.com/" class=l onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','res','1','AFQjCNG7Ba-stir4109vlLygPQX7QGf8bg','&sig2=Vx5PLxf04C-yJYZTZfvk8w')"><em>Yahoo</em>!</a> The function ...
when the visitor goes to a webpage, how do we know the visitor is actually showing the page on top (instead of going to another tab or app already). also how do we know how long the user has read the page or how long the page stayed open? ...
I use Google Analytics on my site, and I want to read __umtz cookie to get referring link. I made some research and I wrote such code: $refer=explode('utmcsr=',$_COOKIE['__utmz']); if(count($refer)>1) $refer=explode('|',$refer[1]); $refer=addslashes($refer[0]); The problem is, this is not always working, sometimes I get junk as result...
I am upgrading the tracking of our company click monitoring tool. Currently it uses a <img/> tag to call a page and pass the required information to our system. We need to upgrade this to use <script/> tags and call a JavaScript file hosted on our server, Like Google Analytics Urchin Module Is there a JavaScript framework / best pract...
Hello, I am doing an internship in an ad-targeting startup. We have publishers in our network that can display ads we send them. Currently our system is able to analyze the behaviour of a user whenever he visits one of our publishers. On the publisher's site, some javascript code creates a user ID. This javascript code stores the user...
I have an application I'm currently working on that requires Administrators to be able to track the views of a ticket and it's duration. I've got the tracking of the number of views by users sorted out, I have a table that contains a TicketID, UserID and a DateOpened. Each time a user visits the page, a new row will be inserted. Howeve...
What I am looking for is way / design to track a user / site visitor without the need for cookies or JavaScript as about 5% of users have one or both of these turned off. What I would like to achieve is a unique reference for the user which can be captured server side in code. I was thinking machine CPU / Motherboard ID but this info...
Few questions, though i'll ask it all in 1 post. 1) Any difference between a Lookup & reference table? And what is best practice on how many to use? Example List of Cities, Countries, Account types, Category names, User tags, Movie names - are these all lookup, reference or some other type of tables? Key is all this data will be search ...
Is there a list of possible items we can track about users, both client and server side in php? I dont care so much about OS, brower, etc but more privacy items like wifi vs land, ssid, ipaddress, etc. There must be some ultimate list out there? ...
It is impossible to identify a user or request as unique since duping is trivial. However, there are a handful of methods that, combined, can hamper cheating attempts and give a user quasi-unique status. I know of the following: IP Address - store the IP address of each visitor in a database of some sort Can be faked Multiple comput...