Stats for Large Ecom Sites

[highman]

Whats the best advice for tracking large (v.large) sites, the site uses 4 pages to deliver all its content using sql and asp, we have Media Stats and W/Trends currently.

The URLs are typicaly fileaname.asp?cat1=[B]Partners&cat2=[D]County_Associations&cat3=[A2]New Club etc etc

I have read somewhere about using small gifs to track visitors paths?

[pageoneresults]

Well, you are using the top two rated programs in the industry (I'll assume that Media Stats is also LiveStats). Web Trends has a feature that will enable tracking for dynamically generated URL's and I'll guess that LiveStats has that also.

Can't think of any other stats programs that would give you more than what you have. Unless, you get into some sort of log analyzer software and do the raw data thing. I've never gone that far since I rely solely on Web Trends (configured properly) to provide statistics.

[highman]

thanks..


maybe I should read up on WebTrends a little more, but certainly LiveStats will not read the URLs to produce a path through the site, are you saying that W/trends will do this? with query string URLs?

[pageoneresults]

Yes, Web Trends does support the dynamic URL's. I'm not sure if your version supports it but I know ours does. It may be an optional feature or it could be something that is part of a later release. You might want to drop Web Trends support an e-mail so they can direct you to the correct area of the management interface to set this up.

I'd give you directions but don't know that at the moment, I let my host take care of all the stats issues.

[highman]

we have log analyser 6.5, they do another version for around 12k maybe thats the one, I will check

thanks

[Christian_SEO]

We use WebTrends Professional Suite and it can't handle tracking on dynamic sites very well. We have some that use Cold Fusion and they are a pain.

What you CAN do with a dynamic site is create a small tracking system on your own.

Create a table with just a few fields to contain the info you want:

Page ID
Referring page
time
date

Add code to each page that will append a record to the database for every pageview. It's then a simple matter to create a frontend reporting system that's quick and efficient. It has the advantage of being "real time" for the most part also.

I hope this helps.

[ihelpyou]

Welcome to the forums Christian_SEO! :hi: