I’m still working through the pros and cons of using cookies. On the one hand, they seem like they will allow some super-useful things at relatively low cost, such as tracking a returning visitor in order to show “visitors” and “unique visitors”. But adding non-essential cookies (analytics are classed as non-essential) means that, in theory,…
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There seems to be a few possible ways to do the tracking and I think it broadly falls into two categories: use JavaScript to send a request request a resource (image, CSS) using an HTML tag or a CSS property I talked before about the fact that requesting a resource wouldn’t send the details of…
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I’ve been thinking about not just HOW to track, but WHAT to track. And these are related. My tracking method will, to some extent, dictate what I can track. For example, using a simple pixel image or reference to a URL in HTML or CSS will not be able to send me the URL of…
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I’ve been trying to work out how best to do the tracking. There seem to be two options: Request a resource using CSS or an image Make a JS call The main disadvantage of the CSS/image approach is that it won’t be able to send a referrer so we won’t be able to see where…
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