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If each request has a session cookie in the log it's easy to track a user's movements through your site, so you can figure out bounce rate, conversion etc no pr
by guelo 11y ago
If each request has a session cookie in the log it's easy to track a user's movements through your site, so you can figure out bounce rate, conversion etc no problem. Things like Piwik have pretty dashboards to generate whatever reports you want from server logs.
- coderdude 11y agoPiwik looks interesting. I'm playing with the demo right now. It does look like they support goals[1]. I can't know for sure how effective it is but I will concede that log analytics is more powerful than I believed. [1]: http://piwik.org/docs/tracking-goals-web-analytics/ http://piwik.org/docs/tracking-goals-web-analytics/ For anyone who wants to play with the demo: http://demo-log-analytics.piwik.org/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=index&idSite=1&period=day&date=yesterday#?module=Dashboard&action=embeddedIndex&idSite=1&period=day&date=yesterday&idDashboard=1 http://demo-log-analytics.piwik.org/index.php?module=CoreHom...
- czep 11y agoDesigning good session identifiers for logging is not trivial. More importantly, with a lot of events happening in javascript, a lot of user interactions are occurring beyond the visibility of your server logs. Tracking js events is also clearly possible, but again, non trivial. I've been in more than one situation where we trusted GA more than our own logs.