WTL Code Placement

high / low - does it make a difference?

[chewy]

Hi,

I've always put the Java from WebTrendsLive at the very bottom of the page before the last closing tag.

Recently a tech put the code in near the top. Yep, on many, many pages...

Does anyone have any experience that placement in the page mades any difference in statistics etc?

I'll bet folks will vote that bottom is better due to just plain common sense (and to feed the spiders text instead of script) - might there be other pressing reasons?

Thanks,

Chew

[netcommr]

results will be slightly different, but not as bad as it used to be. broadband has made this much closer as dial up users may not wait for stuck javascript http calls when webtrends or network bottlenecks hang a bit.

I would suggest put it back at the bottom, you only want to track full page loads. a hung up script may not let the page fully display wich can get users to hit the back button. do you want to track that?

[chewy]

tracking back button clicks would be interesting, but I can guess that this is an easy decision, without having to track anything, right?

when it is easy to track everything, it is easy to get distracted in the minutia.

Chew

[fom2001uk]

We were advised (by WT) to put the code near the top.

[netcommr]

Webtrends just wants their code to be more visible when the source is viewed because their target market is who is looking at source code.