The scourge of web analytics

Re:The scourge of web analytics by ge96 on Monday May 29, 2017 @06:45PM (#14441917)

Curious how that pixel works... do you have to mouse over it, seems like if it was that case would be a bad approach/design, one pixel versus 1366x768 (at least). Also I wonder that code sample you posted isn't complete (realize why) but I wonder if it has bound JS or how it works technically (all in the source)... do you still have to include a script... I should just Google it haha.

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Re:The scourge of web analytics by coalescedfrog on Monday May 29, 2017 @07:07PM (#14441999)

Think it's been answered, but the link below might provide more information on tracking pixels/beacons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_beacon

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Re:The scourge of web analytics by ge96 on Monday May 29, 2017 @07:59PM (#14442178)

Thanks for that, I've seen/heard of tracking pixels but haven't tried them yet.

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Re:The scourge of web analytics by StavrosK on Monday May 29, 2017 @06:46PM (#14441920)

Google Analytics just allows you to GET a URL to send an event, which that tracking pixel does. Interesting that it actually returns an image, though, I didn't know that.

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Re:The scourge of web analytics by ge96 on Monday May 29, 2017 @06:47PM (#14441924)

So that runs once when the page loads? It's not a continuous/real time tracker? Feel free not to respond as I said I can just Google. Thanks though.

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Re:The scourge of web analytics by jackgolding on Monday May 29, 2017 @11:19PM (#14442841)

Nope it will fire again after 30 minutes but not continuously

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Re:The scourge of web analytics by StavrosK on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @03:26AM (#14443474)

I don't think the web pixel will, that just runs on page load, unless you have some fancy JS to do other things (but then you could just call the event directly).

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Re:The scourge of web analytics by jackgolding on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @09:42AM (#14445274)

Yeah you are right sorry thats the session that finishes, had it configured a different way on a certain site.

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Re:The scourge of web analytics by ge96 on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @03:19AM (#14443447)

Interesting for my own tracking I was thinking the next logical step might be to use websockets but I'm not sure.

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