Statistics of visits - to convince advertisers to sponsor pages

[Johan van Zyl]

Hi

How accurately and convincingly can page visits be measured and how complete will the statistics/information be?
To sell it to paying customers?

thx

[Bruce]

Well firstly, if you feel the need, you could simply add google analytics to the page.

But secondly - page visits can be measured with 100% accuracy. After all each visit appears in the log right? So counting becomes trivial. The multi-site host has additional logging features (like logging specific pages) if you want to use that (even using it for 1 site.)

cheers
Bruce

[Johan van Zyl]

I added my Google Anayltics script cunningly called
googleanalytics.js (no quotes? and do I need to add the .js?)
to WebServer and IndexPage.
Is that it?
I cannot see where I can add it to Browses and Forms.

[Bruce]

Hi Johan,

You don't need to add it to IndexPage, or Browses, or Forms.
Just adding it to the WebServer means it's added to all pages.

I think you will need to add quotes to the name though, and yes you need the .js part.

Make sure "include in ALL" is OFF. And you can see it in your pages(*) by right-clicking in the browser and "view source".

(*) It's important to understand the concept of a page here. Google will only track _non ajax PAGE requests_. If you are using Popups, or Content-Body or Front-Loading in your site then those won't count as page requests.

cheers
Bruce