On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Ashley Sheridan <a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > > > Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > >>rene7705 wrote: >>> But before I start coding, I thought it would be better to ask you >>all >>> what you use to see who's visiting your sites and when. >>> Oh, I need something that will work on shared hosting (php+mysql). >> >>piwik ... >>http://piwik.org/ >>A couple of my heavy google users are finding the results much more >>informative, >>and we have started switch google analytics off on all the sites. >> >>( And while it says PHP MySQL I'm using it quite happily on Firebird :) >>) >> >>-- >>Lester Caine - G8HFL >>----------------------------- >>Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact >>L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk >>EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ >>Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// >>Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php >> >>-- >>PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Google analytics only tracks when javascript is enabled, so that could > account for some of the discrepencies. It also uses cookies, which now have > to be legally opted in by the user in the EU (unless they're vital to the > functionality of the site, such as for shopping carts, etc) > > I've rolled my own for these reasons. It's not perfect, but it does a pretty > good job at tracking browsers and bits alike. I use the IP to track > individual users; its not wholly accurate (people can share the IP in a given > day), but it does the trick. > > The key is using images to track. If javascript is enabled it can add extra > info to the url. Obviously it won't work with images turned off, so I'll need > to look at that soon too. > > Thanks, > Ash > http://ashleysheridan.co.uk > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >
Thanks for the replies, everyone.. I'm going to roll my own as well. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
