Inhouse JavaScript Tagging

[sdani]

Hi.. I am looking for a solution for simple JavaScript tagging based tracking. Something simple which just writes the results in a text file on my server side, and I can use my own analysis scripts later to analyse them.

i.e. I am trying to find out more about how the Java Script Tagging based tracking systems track the information and pass them to the server, and not the second part of how that information is analyzed and converted into GUI reports etc.

I did some search on the forum, but most of the links that I found are for the hosted services which provide Java Script Tagging based tracking, but not the discussion about how it works. If I can get any pointers, I would really appreciate that.

Thanks
sdani

[zpbs1914]

Have you signed up for one of the services and viewed the JavaScript produced? I have not dug into the guts of a service like that, but I'll bet that what happens is that a cookie is dropped on the client machine and GUID is created which is sent back to the service's servers. From there, the service can read the cookie to get all of the system info. The GUID probably tracks the clickstream, etc.

It doesn't seem "overly" difficult to implement, maybe just a little complicated.