[thelist] Avoiding logging of bots
Ian Anderson
ian at zstudio.co.uk
Thu Jul 6 18:17:59 CDT 2006
Max Schwanekamp wrote:
> Anyone on the list been down this road before, and either have
> data/prefab solution they're willing to share and/or suggestions for
> a better way to approach this?
Well, I have this sort of thing on a couple of my client sites where I
hand roll some site stats because it's all CMS driven and the regular
web stats have unhelpful things like...
index.asp?p=3243
I believe the best solution is to use JavaScript to deliver the thing
you're tracking, and this is the approach taken by Sean Inman's
excellent Mint, which I would recommend for any site with no more than
moderate traffic and a LAMP environment.
I know there are claims that many users don't have JavaScript support.
In the general case, I personally doubt that significant numbers of
these users exist.
One day it would be nice to test the proposition properly.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Ian
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