Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Here is an example of what a user agent string looks like:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920
Firefox/3.0.4
Yahoo! Web analytics maintains detailed records of every visit to your website
in its database, including the information in the user agent string. When you request a
report, Yahoo! Web analytics mines this database to produce real-time reports for any
reporting period you selected.
Basic Installation
now to the meat of the matter—actually installing the tracking script and recording
that first page view. Go to the installation part of your account and request the track-
ing script. Having applied the Url visualrevenue.com when creating the account as the
primary website, the tracking script comes out looking like this:
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<!— IndexTools Customization Code —>
<!— Remove leading // to activate custom variables —>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
//var DOCUMENTGROUP='';
//var DOCUMENTNAME='';
//var ACTION='';
</script>
<!— End of Customization Code —>
<!— IndexTools Code v4.00 - All rights reserved —>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://visualrevenue.com/indextools.
js”></script><noscript>
<div><img src=”http://stats.indextools.com/p.pl?a=10001277xxxxx&amp;js=no”
width=”1” height=”1” alt=”“ /></div></noscript><!—//—>
<!— End of IndexTools Code —>
it does not mean that the tracking script is dedicated to that specific Url—all
it means is that it applied the location of the tracking script include file in the tracking
script. this is something you can change yourself by hand if needed. Yahoo! Web ana-
lytics assumes by default that you locate the tracking script include file ( indextools.js )
in the root folder:
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<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://visualrevenue.com/indextools.
js”></script>
the tracking script reference to the root location is something you can modify,
should you have restrictions or procedures for where to put JavaScript include files:
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://visualrevenue.com/includes/js/
indextools.js”></script>
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