Questions tagged [visitor-statistic]
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Detecting a "unique" anonymous user
It is impossible to identify a user or request as unique since duping is trivial.
However, there are a handful of methods that, combined, can hamper cheating attempts and give a user quasi-unique status.
I know of the following:
IP Address - store…
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How do I count unique visitors to my site?
I am making a visitor counting system for user posts to show the most viewed posts on homepage. I have a visitor counting system now but all it registers a view at every page refresh. I cannot use Google Analytics.
What I need is a visitor counter…
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Display number of visitors of google analytics on website
A client asked me to display the number of hits/visitors in their website. I would like to know how can you do display this.
I would insert it in my footer as displayed:
If not possible with google analytics, do you know of a snippet which will…
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Get the referrer, paid/natural and keywords for the current visitor with Google Analytics
Is it possible to get the following information about the current visitor using Google Analytics API with JavaScript?
Referrer site ('Source' in GA)
Paid or natural ('Medium' in GA)
Keyword
First time/returning
Number of visits
If it's not…
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Google analytics API C#
I'm currently implementing a pageview counter on some webpages using the Google Analytics API. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to use the Google API. Could someone post some examples how to use the API?
I searched the mighty internet but I…
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accurate page view count in Django
What is a good approach to keeping accurate counts of how many times a page has been viewed?
I'm using Django. Specifically, I don't want refreshing the page to up the count.
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How to measure visiting time of a user
I like to measure the time a user spent on a particualr page of my webapp. First i thought about catching the onunload/onbeforeunload event in the browser and notify the server via a XMLHttpRequest that the user is leaving now like:
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How to identify unique user?
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How can you determine if a user is unique or not?
I understand there are many ways to do this using cookies, but what about methods that don't use cookies?
For example, go to Urban Dictionary and click one of the up/down vote buttons. Even…
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Use Google Analytics for data to display on our webpage?
On some of our pages, we display some statistics like number of times that page has been viewed today, number of times it's been viewed the past week, etc. Additionally, we have an overall statistics page where we list the pages, in order, that…
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Google Analytics API - Programmatically fetch page views in server side
We have a web application that consists of several pages. We registered our web app domain to Google Analytics and page views tracking works as expected (In the Analytics panel we can see page views for each page). Now we want this page views info…
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How do I Extend Blogengine.Net to collect statistics of visitors?
I love BlogEngine. But from what I can se it does not collect the standard information about the visitors I would like to see (referrer, browser-type and so on).
When I log in as Admin I have a menu item named "Referrer". I can choose a weekday and…
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Sudden, drastic changes in bounce rate. What could have caused this?
I have been working with a website that has had a consistent bounce rate around 50-60%. A couple weeks ago, the bounce rate dropped significantly to 2-6% for about a two week span. Recently, it has shot back up to around 50%.
I have not made any…
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measure time spent on a web page
Possible Duplicate:
How to measure a time spent on a page?
I am trying to get the time spent on some of the pages in my site. One way I am thinking to implement is polling the server with ajax request every 10 sec , but this would mean a lot of…
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How reliable is php function get_browser?
I am trying to find a good way to detect a visitor OS, browser, etc.
I found the PHP function get_browser
And I see that function can detect Java, I though the function used the user agent for detection, and I don't see any mention to Java on my VMs…
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How should I store user agent data?
When we detect these items for visitors:
Browser name
Browser version
OS name
OS version
Screen resolution
Screen depth
Flash enabled
...
Should these all be stored in the database in separate columns or should I be storing it all as a user agent…
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