Tracking clicked links on a Web page how ???

[Prince of Code]

Hey all,

I am trying to track the links that are clicked on a particular web
page.
Like a typical senario will be:
Track (Count) how many times the main links Home,Help,About ,Login etc
are clicked.
At the bottom line i am planning to track(count) all the links <a
href-"">
how many times each one is clicked. My guess is javascript and cookies
would be helpful.
Let me know your valuble idea or thoughts on this implementation.

Thx
Prince

[Tyno Gendo]

Prince of Code wrote:

Hey all,

I am trying to track the links that are clicked on a particular web
page.
Like a typical senario will be:
Track (Count) how many times the main links Home,Help,About ,Login etc
are clicked.
At the bottom line i am planning to track(count) all the links <a
href-"">
how many times each one is clicked. My guess is javascript and cookies
would be helpful.
Let me know your valuble idea or thoughts on this implementation.

Thx
Prince

Are you tracking per session, per ip, or other?

You could store in a session if you only wanted to keep the stats for
the live of that users visit, otherwise you will need to have some kind
of unique id for that user and store stats in a database.

If you had a user with a username/password, you could track in a
database which sections they access, or you could have standard
..htaccess type password and then use interrogate standard Apache logs
based on the REMOTE_USER field.

I'm not really sure of your full plan here. Maybe you could elaborate
on this.

[Allodoxaphobia]

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:07:16 +0100, Tyno Gendo wrote:

Prince of Code wrote:

>>
I am trying to track the links that are clicked on a particular web
page.
Like a typical senario will be:
Track (Count) how many times the main links Home,Help,About ,Login etc
are clicked.
At the bottom line i am planning to track(count) all the links <a
href-"">
how many times each one is clicked. My guess is javascript and cookies
would be helpful.
Let me know your valuble idea or thoughts on this implementation.

Are you tracking per session, per ip, or other?

You could store in a session if you only wanted to keep the stats for
the live of that users visit, otherwise you will need to have some kind
of unique id for that user and store stats in a database.

If you had a user with a username/password, you could track in a
database which sections they access, or you could have standard
.htaccess type password and then use interrogate standard Apache logs
based on the REMOTE_USER field.

One trick I use -- especially for creating _some_ stats for clients who
chose a web host without any stats ability and for ~userid accounts is
to place a _uniquely named_ totally transparent GIF on each page --
where the GIF is located on _my_ web host. At the EOM, I give those
clients the page-by-page fetch stats as the counts appear in _my_ stats
for each of the GIF's. Somewhat tedious and crude - for sure - but it
beats nothing at all.

HTH
Jonesy
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[Aerik]

On Apr 3, 11:32 pm, "Prince of Code" <princeofc...@g mail.comwrote:

Hey all,

I am trying to track the links that are clicked on a particular web
page.
Like a typical senario will be:
Track (Count) how many times the main links Home,Help,About ,Login etc
are clicked.
At the bottom line i am planning to track(count) all the links <a
href-"">
how many times each one is clicked. My guess is javascript and cookies
would be helpful.
Let me know your valuble idea or thoughts on this implementation.

Thx
Prince

Are you counting clicks, or pageloads? If you're counting clicks
you'll definitely have to use javascript (either swap out an image or
make an ajax call). Pageloads is easily done server side.

Aerik