adding cookies

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Jorge B.Domic

Using FP2002. How can I add cookies so I know how many
people are active at one moment on my website and from
where are they visiting (country, or some more specific
data?)and what are the preferred visited pages?
Thanks in advance.
 
I know this isn't EXACTLY what you are looking for... but I do all that with
SITEMETER -- I was looking for cookie codes...etc... and came across it..

It is free (there is a paid version, but not really important to have the
bells and whistles).

I can see WHO and how many are on:

at the moment
during that day
week
month
year

plus ENTRY and EXIT PAGES

referal pages...

and more

PLUS I can IGNORE myself so I do NOT get counted on the web stats

plus I get an email every morning from SITEMETER telling me how many people
looked at my site... and during what hour.... PLUS the same info for PER
PAGE views.

plus it gives you the 6 days prior... per day

might not be what you want... but I thought I would take the chance to share
it with everyone.....

:) Kimi
 
Cookies won't really help you there. You need something like a live
statistics package. Many web hosts already offer something like this in
their services (SurfStats, LiveStats, etc). All a cookie will do is store
some information on a user's browser, it won't find out what country they
are from (requires an IP lookup) and the informaiton won't really be shared
with you since a cookie is pretty much private. Your web server actually
logs all this information so that you can perform statistical analysis of
the sort you are looking for. If you can get access to the log files, you
can run them through a log file analyzer that will show you where users are
coming from, how long they spend at your site, how many pages they click,
etc.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
 
Jorge,

Your best solution is to check with your host company and
see it they offer a web report such as Web Trends,
Urchin, etc.. These reports will provide all information.

If they don't offer a report, you can use the report
tools built into FP 02 View>Reports>Usage (As long as
your host supports it).

You can write your own cookies in java script, asp, etc..
but the two options above are much easier.

Hope it helps,
JDR
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www.sitemeter.com FREE VERSION -- works AWESOME..

put it on each page and you can watch views for EACH PAGE.. plus more.

I LOVE it.

I get emails for my stats daily.

doesn't count me on hits either (you have to set it to IGNORE)

Kimi
 
no cookies will help that...

run a site monitoring package like webtrends or siteminder. but even those
won't be completly accurate as far as where the user is coming from. but it
is very accurate as far as resources accessed on your web.
 
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