Questions tagged [tracking]

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Ther term tracking is applied to various domains of computer science like online tracking, video tracking, etc.

Online tracking or web tracking refers to the act of monitoring user events and is majorly accompanied with a statistic or analytic tool to take out inferences from the gathered user data based on users' online behaviour. For example - Google Analytics is a tool by Google Inc. that keeps track of all the traffic that comes to a website.

Video tracking is the process of locating a moving object (or multiple objects) over time using a camera. It has a variety of uses, some of which are: human-computer interaction, security and surveillance, video communication and compression, augmented reality, traffic control, medical imaging1 and video editing.2[3] Video tracking can be a time consuming process due to the amount of data that is contained in video. Adding further to the complexity is the possible need to use object recognition techniques for tracking.

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How to implement referral program in mobile Apps for both Android and iPhone

We have a mobile app that's available in both Google Play Store and Apple AppStore, we want to implement a referral program to get more users to install and use our App. Here's the user story: Every new user (E.g John) is given to a unique…
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Is version control (ie. Subversion) applicable in document tracking?

I am in charge of about 100+ documents (word document, not source code) that needs revision by different people in my department. Currently all the documents are in a shared folder where they will retrieve, revise and save back into the folder.…
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How to track a Google Adwords conversion onclick?

Google Adwords offers no code to add to your page to count a conversion if somebody clicks on a link. But as it's Javascript, I am sure there is a way to do this. Here's the code (unaltered) Google gives you to include in the page, that should count…
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ga or _gaq.push for Google Analytics event tracking?

I would like to track an onclick of a button on a page on a site, after a condition is passed checking if a cookie is present. Very simple but which syntax would work best? I have researched the ga and gaq_push prefix of the GA event tracking syntax…
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Create an Android GPS tracking application

Recently, I've taken up android development as a hobby and was looking to develop an application that can find and track a users position using Google Maps. Once the application has a GPS lock, it can track their movements by drawing a route using…
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What is the most reliable way to hide / spoof the referrer in JavaScript?

Normally, the referrer is traceable through: JavaScript's document.referrer The request headers, e.g. PHP's $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] I have set up a Codepad demo which shows these properties, for testing purposes. #Requirements: The original…
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How to capture if a visitor is from a google adwords click

When a user signs up on my site I want to be able to store whether or not they came to my site via an Adwords campaign. I know google uses javascript to track conversions based on a cookie that is created on the users machine. Is there a way I can…
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Facebook Conversion Pixel code: BODY vs HEAD

Can I place the Facebook Conversion Pixel inside the BODY (as opposed to inside the HEAD, which is what Facebook suggest in their specs? I don't see why not. Has anybody tried it? Here is an example of the code