[ phpopencounter-Support Requests-708317 ] Results with Webbug

Support Requests item #708317, was opened at 2003-03-23 02:50
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Results with Webbug

Initial Comment:
Hi,

We are planning to use phpOpenTracker for a number of 
sites hosted by a hosting providers. 

We have a main domain, lets say www.main.com and a 
number of secondary domains e.g. www.domain_1.com 
and www.domain_2.com.

As our sites are mainly html-based we are using the 
webbug to trace our visitors. We are hitting the bug by 
www.main.com/phpOpenTrackerDirectory/webbug.js.

P3P is implemented in the .htaccess file of the 
webserver:
Header append P3P 'CP="NOI NID ADMa OUR IND UNI 
COM NAV"'

However, we experience a number of issues:

1) domain_1 is having client_id 1, domain_2 is having 
client_id 2. In the simple_report example, 
column "Client"`, domain_1 is listed as "main", 
domain_2 w/o name and thus not clickable. How to get 
the name.

2) the referrer is not filled correctly; "internal" links, e.g. 
a click on www.domain_1.com/page_1.html to 
www.domain_1/page_2.html is recorded with page_1 as 
referrer. Problem now is that they are pushing the real 
(external) referrers e.g. from google or other external 
sources from the top-10 list of referrers.

3) The document title in simple_report/current_activity is 
not correct. In webbug.js document.URL is used where 
you would expect document.title, is this right?

4) What extra functions are in webbug.js in comparison 
with directly calling the image.php script?

5) Are there any standard-reorg functions for the 
database?

Thanks for the support,
Ingo


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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2003-03-24 14:13

Message:
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1) Too bad, this seemed to be a pretty generic feature, not 
depending on the simple_report.

6) great.

Again, Tx for all your work; just might close this support 
request by now.

Ingo

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Comment By: Sebastian Bergmann (bergmann)
Date: 2003-03-23 23:02

Message:
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user_id=7993

1.) simple_report is meant as a simple, sample application
that uses the phpOpenTracker API. I will not add
simple_report specific configuration to the
phpOpenTracker.ini file.

2.) 3.) Thanks for the offer, but I already have enough
production data to test with.

5.) Aggregation of old data is planned for the future.

6.) A full-fledged, report wizard / front-end for
phpOpenTracker should become available later this year.


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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2003-03-23 10:26

Message:
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Hi Sebastian,

Thank's for your very fast reply.

1) I will change the coding.

Feature request: translation table "client id"-> "name for 
display" in phpOpenTracker.ini; e.g. 

client_name_1 = "domain name 1"
client_name_2 = "domain name 2"

2/3) In case you need any productive data I am happy to give 
you access to our productive data. Just let me know: e-mail: 
ingo.land at vbb-bv.nl (replace at with @).

4) Unfortunatly we do not get these extra functions to work 
properly (see 2/3).

5) Hosting at hosting provider means that we do not have 
GBs for a logging database. A reorganisation module could 
clean-up historical data (e.g. older than 3 month) but sustain 
key data as the top-lists or number of hits per page for future 
reference. 

Best regards,
Ingo

Extra comment: 

Somewhere you positioned your tool (thanks for building it 
free) as a framework for developers. Please keep in mind that 
for developers not having full control over the webserver (like 
us using a hosting provider) your tool is great for traffic 
analysis. Rather than additional APIs we would welcome 
more end-user facilities, as we prefer investing web-site 
development time into functionality of the site instead of 
rather generic analysis functions. Examples are detailed 
analysis, data cleansing, country analysis, evaluations over 
all clients, information with regard to returning visitors, etc.

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Comment By: Sebastian Bergmann (bergmann)
Date: 2003-03-23 03:12

Message:
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user_id=7993

1.) You need to edit simple_report/index.php if you are
using more than one client_id.

2.) 3.) I never really tested the Web Bug in a production
environment. I have scheduled some time to do so and improve
the Web Bug functionality during the next couple of days. I
plan to get this working properly before phpOpenTracker
1.2.0 gets released.

4.) You need JavaScript to get the correct document and
referer information.

5.) Please elaborate.


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