[thelist] Tracking user activity

Ken Schaefer ken at adOpenStatic.com
Mon Sep 8 03:09:23 CDT 2003


Hi,

Two options:
a) Use your weblog analysis software. This goes through your web logs, and,
if a request comes in from a certain IP address within some user-specified
time limit, it's assumed to be from the same session. The web log analyser
software then gives you it's "best guess" as to the user's interaction with
your site

b) Write your own system, either as an ISAPI filter -or-, if you're using an
ASP-based site, using ASP (or whatever programming environment you might
have). Suppose you were using ASP, and the inbuilt ASP sessions. At the top
of each page you'd have a function that'd log to a database the current
ASPSessionID, the current page, and the current date/time. You can then use
this data to construct the information you want (ie the length of time spend
on a page would be the difference between the date stamp for one record, and
the date stamp for the next give the same ASPSessionID)

Cheers
Ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Martin" <lee at stumpymoose.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 5:56 PM
Subject: RE: [thelist] Tracking user activity


: Yeah, I guess I could have given a little more info there :)
:
: Where they enter the site, where they go next, how long they stay, and
: at which point do they exit the site.
:
: Lee
:
: -----Original Message-----
: From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
: [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer
: Sent: 08 September 2003 05:49
: To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
: Subject: Re: [thelist] Tracking user activity
:
: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: From: "Lee Martin" <lee at stumpymoose.com>
: Subject: [thelist] Tracking user activity
:
:
: : I need to be able to track a user's activity on a session on
: : intranet-based websites. We're using IIS. Does anyone have any tips on
: : where I can get some info on this?
: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
:
: What activity do you want to track?
:
: Cheers
: Ken



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