Stats Packages That Count Clickthroughs

There Seems To Be Something Missing!

[austtr]

I want to upgrade to a new analysis package and have checked all the promo stuff and sample reports for the products being recommended in the previous post. I am specifically looking for a package that allows me to count click throughs to advertiser's sites.

Every click through from an advertisers banner or link generates an entry in my logs that contains strings like this:

<a href="/cgi-local/redir.pl?url=http://www.targetsite.com/">

In my old version of WebTrends I could run reports that collected and totalled all those strings.

Can anyone confirm if these recommended packages have the same capability, or a facility of some kind that gives the same end result?

[brotherhood of LAN]

one solution would be to pack your log files into a db for you to query...for instance with the query *yourredirectURL* or something like that to track clickthroughs....time of click throughs, same IP's clicking through etc. IMO thats the best way to go; long term anyway.

I remember when I was using hitbox a while back they *might* have had something to the extent you are looking for- at the very least they map the paths that your visitors travel to which is some data you could work on with a little extra code of your own.

[Big_Balou]

Try this link [jan-winkler.de]. It's a program called Log File Analysis v 6.0. There is the option of logging and tracking AdImpressions as well as AdClicks. I don't use this function currently so I can't tell you how good it is in this but I like the program and it does allow me to customize my reports.

<added>and its free...I like free</added>

[mnorton]

Add the following lines to you apache Configuration (If You use apache) and you will have no need for a script :-
<Location /redirect>
AllowOverride All
order deny,allow
allow from all
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Redirect /redirect/ http://
</Location>

then you can redirect users using urls such as [yoursite.com...]

As you can see this is a very easy way of logging the information, this will appear as /redirect/www.redirectto.com in your log files

Thanks

Mike

[martin]

I'm using analog [analog.cx], it's extremely configurable - more than you need usually, so you have to spend a few hours reading the docs. Runs on Win, Mac and basicly all Unices - source and binaries are available.

It's open source so you're not spending anything.