Tracking Visitor Paths

[Nitestarz]

I want to be able to track visitiors paths around my website.

I am unable to do this via log files because I am using Ensim and for some reason if you add cookie tracking to the httpd.conf, it wont generate logs.

My website is all static. I want it to stay this way because it gets excellent ranking in search engines.

Any suggestions on how to track visitors? Maybe cookies?

[larryn]

Nitestarz,

Session ID is pretty important if your site has any significent traffic. However if you cannot use Apache's built-in module for user tracking and modify the log file contents, your options are limited.

You can use javascript to create session ID cookies, but that would require you adding the javascript to your sites pages. If you can do that, then the best (if not only) solution for data collection would be to either:

a) add a server side script to each page to log the activity as the page is served
or
b) use page-tagging to a script that will record the pertinant information. Check back a few days ago, there was a link here about page tagging.

Hope this points you in the right direction, feel free to post more about your specific needs...

Larry

[Nitestarz]

I can easily add a JavaScript to my pages. Any suggestions? Thank you!