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for a site with this traffic level;
20,000 unique visitors and 200,000 page views monthly,
i need to continually track outbound traffic from links on pages throughout the site in order to report back to these sites on how much traffic we sent them.
the site has many different areas written by different people, so i need a system wide or simple process.
AXS says it isn't good for this much traffic. We own WebTrends Log Analyzer, FYI.
I'm much stronger in js and php, than perl and cgi and I'm the guy that has to implement this on my own.
I've searched and read the posts already here. I guess I'm asking for some advice to a medium level techie. Does WebTrends capture this?
Thanks much!
Does WebTrends capture this?
Not that I know of. The data source for WebTrends is your log file, which tracks visits to your server, not visits to other servers.
The concept of what you need to do is have those outbound links go not directly to the target pages themselves but to another location where the link is counted, information gathered etc. and then redirected to the target.
One quick idea (i.e. have to think this thru) would be to have the links go to a page called (for example) linkredirector.php. The script on that page would take the requested link, store a 'hit' in a database, and then redirect to the appropriate site.
