Questions tagged [user-tracking]
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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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Cross Domain User Tracking
We have several websites on different domains and I'd like to be able to track users' movements on these sites.
Obviously cookies are not feasable, because they don't cross domain borders.
I could look at a combination of IP address and User…
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How Do Internet Advertisers Use Third-Party Cookies?
If a given web server can only read cookies from those set within its own domain, how do Internet advertisers track user's web traffic from websites outside of their network?
Is there some kind of "supercookie" global advertising system that…
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Having trouble with mapkit usertrackingwithheading mode on iOS 6
I think I may have discovered a bug in the mapkit API for iOS 6, but since I still consider myself a rookie I thought I'd check here to see if anyone can point out something I may be doing wrong.
I have an app that I've been working on for a few…
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why browsers allow setting cookie on the parent (cross) domain of an iframe?
Why can a site (a.com) having an iframe to another domain (b.com) have its cookie viewed and changed by that other domain document?
Just saw this happening in an Ad, and went to do a proof of concept, and it worked... here's what i did: first,…
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How do I retrieve the visitor's ISP through PHP?
How do I find out the ISP provider of a person viewing a PHP page?
Is it possible to use PHP to track or reveal it?
If I use something like the following:
gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
it returns my IP address, not my host name or ISP.
isp_org
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Disable Track and Trace in apache
I have Apache 2.2.22 in suse Linux. I want to disable track & trace in Apache and use 1- TraceEnable Off and 2- RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
RewriteRule .* - [F] .
but of 2 way don't work.
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How to write "Last Seen" logic like that on Stack Overflow
I'm working on an application that has similar logic as SO with regards to when the user was last seen. I've run into a conceptual problem that I'm hoping some of you Guru's can help me out with.
All activity is logged in an ActivityLog table in…
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How would you implement a "last seen" feature for users?
On Stack Overflow, the profile page lists a "last seen" property. This doesn't seem to be updated on every page view (for performance reasons, obviously). How would you implement it in a heavy-traffic web app? Would you update it only on certain…
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Parsing __utmz tracking cookie to get referral
I use Google Analytics on my site, and I want to read __umtz cookie to get referring link. I made some research and I wrote such code:
$refer=explode('utmcsr=',$_COOKIE['__utmz']);
if(count($refer)>1)…
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How to track user interest and display products based on their interest
I have an e-commerce website and I need to display products in homepage based on user interest like advertisement showing on facebook and google based on the search we did on the internet.
Is there any API from facebook or google or any website for…
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What are the Alternatives to Google Analytics
I need to Track Unique Visitor count in my web application. I would really like to use Google Analytics but due to the Load limitations that google imposes I will not be able to use them. I am expecting WAY over 10,000 requests a day. This is the…
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How to gather info similar to panopticlick.eff.org
I saw that the website http://panopticlick.eff.org/ gather info about your browser, which makes you unique, even without cookies or IP tracking.
My question: How do you use javascript to see this info?
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how to know visitors is actually looking at the webpage and for how long?
when the visitor goes to a webpage, how do we know the visitor is actually showing the page on top (instead of going to another tab or app already).
also how do we know how long the user has read the page or how long the page stayed open?
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How does Google track search result clicks? Is this the best way?
As the question states, I'm trying to figure out how google tracks clicks on search results. When you view the source, you find the following:
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