Livestats.XSP

Trying to crunch url aliases

[click4]

Bit of a toughie this and I just wondered if anyone had seen this problem before and found a solution:

We have CGI called pages that look a bit like this

/index.aspx?page=development-details&developmentid=d2009

But our CMS system allows us to alias that URL with just

/d2009 apended to our domain name.

In the Page report of Livestats.XSP (Host provided package) I want to check popular pages, exit pages etc but obviously only see /index.aspx for all pages. There is an option in the admin to set dynamic page tracking but the alias system we have for the dynamic URLs prevents that from working.

Any ideas at all? Thanks in advance.

[larryn]

Click,

The easiest way to track url's like you have suggested is to use a beacon in the page with the proper page info. Typically beacons are image files or any other url without content (a '204' status) that are called in order to put an entry into your log.

So, for instance, if you have a company graphic at <yoursite/graphic.gif>, you would instead call for <yoursite/graphic.gif&page=the%20name%20you%20really%20want>. The server will typically ignore the query for the graphic file, but will leave the information in your log for analysis. Most advanced uses of this technique use a script that return no content (status 204), so you can put them anywhere in your page.

Hope this helps,

Larry