eboda - 7:53 pm on Mar 29, 2002 (gmt 0)

Greetings people,

What a super topic! I have been working a lot on my own sites in tracking every little click to internal and external links, as well to people who link up with me.

I have been testing a program that lets me track every virtual foot step on my site, including search engine spiders. What is great about this - I get the following information:
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Web Browse
Abbreviated Browser
Browser Wars (Netscape)
Operating System (Windows 98)
Visitor Top Level Domains (.com)
Visitor 1-level Domain (xav.com)
Visitor Full (dialup-123.xav.com)
Visitor IP Address (206.134.243.3)
Hits from Other Sites (Full URL)
Hits from Other Sites (Domain Only)
Hyperlinks Followed From This Site
Hits to Local Documents
Average Number of Hits Per Visitor
Hits By Day of Year
Hits By Day of the Week
Hits By Hour of the Day
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It is GREAT!

I often even go a step further..
When a client contacts me, I can then look at their e-mail IP, or Server info, then look for them in my Stats. This tells me exactly where they came from, where they went, what they read - and how long . It really has let me get into my users virtual mind. I don't tell them directly that I tracked them - but I can tune my reply to them better.

There is much more to this application that I have not had time to apply. I am even working on a hack version of this script with more goodies which I plan to present to the company.

So what do I use?

SIMPLE AND FREE APPLICATION CALLED:
AXS
www.xav.com/scripts/axs/

Hope this tool helps you all. I know I went off from the topic here a bit, but I am sure you can see how it fits in here.

Enjoy!
eboda

(edited by: paynt at 11:17 pm (utc) on Mar. 29, 2002)