Yep, that's the ticket. Thanks. -stevep

On Jun 9, 2:43 pm, Jeff Schnitzer <j...@infohazard.org> wrote:
> Have you considered Events in Google Analytics?
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> If that's not powerful enough, perhaps consider Mixpanel?
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> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:14 AM, stevep <prosse...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am asking this here rather than SO because I am not sure it
> > qualifies as a well-formed question.
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> > For a site I am putting up, I am going with quite a few dynamic div
> > elements in the main page (index.html). Small informative site, so
> > each div corresponds to a chunk of info. Rather than code a new page
> > for each chunk, it seems cleaner to me to use style=display/none for
> > different divs that all load at the same time.
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> > Problem is that I do want some logging to support analyzing how folks
> > move through the site. The approach I have settled on is to create a
> > unique visitor ID, and ping my GAE handler with a XMLHttpRequest with
> > its payload = visitorID:buttonID (UTC time is part of visitorID).
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> > The handler does nothing more than pass the call's payload to a pull
> > task queue (avgs < 40ms). An "every few minutes" cron executes pull
> > task queue which serializes 5,000 payloads into a TextProperty which
> > it puts as a log entity. Each cron will process up to 10 puts, or
> > 50,000 payloads. I later download these recs to MySQL for in-depth
> > analysis at my leisure.
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> > This has, I am pretty sure, problems if the site gets any real volume.
> > Honestly, I do not think that will every be an issue, but who knows.
> > Would appreciate input as to alternate approaches. HTML web page
> > implementations + GAE is clearly not an arrow in my quiver.
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> > thanks,
> > stevep
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