Forum OpenACS Q&A: Session Tracking and Hit Counters

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Posted by Bob OConnor on

We have site visitors who don't log on but do look at some of our content. How can we track them? Is there a way to track their session,...seeing multiple pages on our site, perhaps by ip address? This would be better than a hit counter since refreshes wouldn't be counted.

I do see session_statistics table that records:
session_count, repeat_count, entry_date

grepping the /www directory referrs to this table only in /admin results pages and
register/user-login-2.tcl: ad_update_session_statistics $db 1 0

So, what is a session? What is a repeat? Does this include people who visit but don't log in? If not, recommendations to get this info even if only a hit counter by page....

TIA -Bob

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Posted by MaineBob OConnor on

Here it is a month later and no replies to my question:

"We have site visitors who don't log on but do look at some of our content. How can we track them? Is there a way to track their session,...seeing multiple pages on our site, perhaps by ip address? This would be better than a hit counter since refreshes wouldn't be counted..."...more

TIA -Bob