Tracking considerations

Am I overlooking anything useful?

[Nick_W]

Hi everyone

I'm developing a simple tracking database as part of the user module of one of my sites.

I'm pretty happy with just recording these details

• user id
  
• joined (when they registered)
  
• last login date
  
• total logins
  

I just really wanted to know if I was overlooking anything before I get stuck into it...

Cheers

Nick

[Yidaki]

Depends on your privacy policy and on what you would like to record ...

It could be also of interest saving the registering IP and User Agent. And why not counting every page the user browses on your site - a click through path. If you use a database you could even track every record the user has loaded or modified ...

[Hannu]

I would record the initial referring URL too.

[Nick_W]

Yes, all good points. Thanks very much guys ;-)

Nick