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I am using a cookie based tracking system.
Has anyone got any comments that will help me with understanding the pro's and con's of these systems, based on experience.
I was told this was the best place with the best people to ask...
(does flattery get you everything?) ;)
[edited by: heini at 10:20 am (utc) on Oct. 23, 2003]
[edit reason] please, lets keep tools names out, thanks! [/edit]
Two pros are that you can add other values you want to track into your cookie and you never have to worry about changing dynamic IPs throwing your unique counts off.
If you do implement a cookie based system, I recommend setting up a table that gets a record inserted for every cookie issued that would have the cookie value, ip address, user agent, create date, number of visits (get a counter going), initial referring url, and initial url requested. I would also add any business specific values you want to track like account id.
This type of table comes in real handy.
