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Gloria
10-03-2005, 08:54 PM
Hello,

Do you know if it is possible to track specifically where a user goes (trace his movements through the site) without logging in ?

Basically we have a public website that is being visited by a certain number of users; however, we would like to be able to know and report where does each user go from the homepage. This is, user x that visited the website at 9:15am went directly to "Contact us", user xx that visited the website at 9:17am went to "about us" then "searched into our catalogue" then closed the application, and so on; however, we don't want to make the user register so we can follow his path as it is only an informational website. Is there any application that tracks it or is there any way to do it?

Thanks for your help!
Gloria

Snitchcat
10-03-2005, 10:05 PM
The only one I've heard of so far is a web traffic report system (don't remember the name off-hand). But this tracks users anonymously. I don't know if it'd track IP; doubt it. But if you wanted to track specific users, or maybe User 1, User 2, etc., I'm not sure what to suggest.

As a starting point, you might search for 'web traffic report tool' on Google.

Gloria
10-04-2005, 01:15 AM
Thank you Snitchcat,

I have found a really nice application (actually 2) that have exactly what I was looking for. Here are the links:
http://www.123stat.com <-- this is a very good one!!!
http://www.dynamicsitestats.com/index.html

Thank you for your help!
Gloria

NetNerd85
10-04-2005, 01:35 AM
Thanks Gloria, they are some great links!

123stat is the type of thing I was looking for also.