[webproducers] Re: Webtrends inaccurate?

I believe the webtrends live product uses client side javascripting to send a 
message to a webtrend's server that collects the data.  This is a very weak 
design as it relies on client side javascript.  There are any number of ways it 
could break causing the differences between your weblogs and what webtrends is 
reporting to you.  The advantage is of the live product is real-time reporting, 
the disadvantage is lack of reliability.

As a rule of thumb, I never put anything that is mission critical in client 
side functions because it is too unreliable.  You have no control over the 
client that your end-users have.  If you need accurate traffic reporting you 
are better off switching to the server-side solution unless you need the data 
in real-time.

=Duke


webproducers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
Hi guys,

Thanks for the input guys.  The webtrends that's put
up is a live version.  From what I understand it's a
javascript that creates a count everytime someone
visits the site, so the way Webtrends is set up, it's
entirely independent of the web logs.

Kane


--- morry  wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure how this can be because we take the log
> files and run them
> through webtrends. Are you doing it this way or do
> they have a live
> version running? Eithe rcase webtrends just
> porcesses the log files as far
> as I know.
> 
> MOrry
> 
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, KT wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi alia,
> > 
> > I have a question.  Our marketing people just came
> > back with web page stats from Webtrends and that
> > doesn't jive with our ISP's log files.  Our ISP
> told
> > us that Webtrends is notoriously inaccurate?  Is
> that
> > true?  Does anyone have any experience with them?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Kane
> > 
> > 
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