Re: [cobalt-users] Tracking URL Click Thru's

[Paul Schreiber <cheesefactory@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Tim Lajoie <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I want to be able to produce stats for the number of times visitors
> click on a spcific url on our site.
> 
> My understanding is that I have to use a CGI script in conjunction with
> the url to produce a log file entry when the visitor clicks on the url.
> 
> If this is the case, any recomendations for the cgi script? 

Well, it's really a four-line script, so, no, not really. :) 

phpAds -- available from http://www.phpwizard.net -- tracks clickthrus as
part of its ad-tracking features. you may want to look at it.

you would end up tracking the clickthrus separately frm your regular
stats.

> I have gotten clickcount up and running.  
> Is this ok?  What sort of CPU/Process
> performance hit would be taken if the script ran say 5,000 a day? What
> about in conjuction with serving up 100,000 pages per day as well?

I don't know the details of how clickcount works, but i can't imagine it
giving you much of a performance hit at all -- your CGI script will take
take 0.1 seconds to run :) and use almost zero CPU.

> I personally process our stats by downloading the logs files via ftp to
> my NT server machine.  I use Marlketwave HitList professional
> version 4.0.
[snip]
> Next, is Hitlist the best package for stats in general and more
> specifically, will this do the job I require.

I'm using analog for general stats, it works well.
http://analog.barringtons.com

Paul

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