How robots work
 

Welcome to our robotics Archive. Have fun browsing!

 

Article #61: Web Tagging: A History

(Browse for more articles)

 
In the late 1990s, something interesting often observed in web pages. Why was this
happened. Identifying visitors to a significant? Web counters showed the
website became more difficult. This was number of times a particular image was
mainly due to the development of search requested. This later evolved into
engine spiders and robots; and web invisible images that used _JavaScript,
proxies and IP addresses for large which passed along certain information
organizations and Internet service about the page and the visitor.
providers (ISPs). A web analytics company can process the
To record visitors, log analyzers began information, which extracts statistics
tracking visits by cookies and by that are useful to the organization.
overlooking requests from known spiders. The web analytics service company is also
The use of web caches also became a responsible for assigning a cookie to the
problem in logfile analysis. For user. The cookie identifies a particular
instance, if a person revisits a page, visitor from the first visit to the next.
the second action or request would most Most web analytics service companies
likely be retrieved from the browser's offer both logfile analysis programs and
cache. Thus, the web server will not page tagging solutions.
receive a request. If this happens, the An organization that seeks the services
person's path around a certain website of a web analytics service company must
cannot be tracked. Configuring the server know the disadvantages and advantages of
can beat caching, but this could lead to the two approaches, in order to determine
degraded performance and discourage the which one to choose.
visitor. Mark Rapor is a Web Developer and
Eventually, concerns were raised about Internet Marketer. Visit us at Blue Sky
the accuracy of logfile analysis, Projects. Blue Sky Projects is a
particularly when caching was involved. full-service, custom web development
There was also an intention to outsource resource that understands the critical
web analytics. These developments led to role that an effective internet presence
page tagging. can play in the success of your
More than a decade ago, web counters were organization.






1- A- B- C- 2- 3- 4- 5- 6- 7- 8- 9- 10- 11- 12- 13- 14- 15- 16- 17- 18- 19- 20- 21- 22- 23- 24- 25- 26- 27- 28- 29- 30- 31- 32- 33- 34- 35- 36- 37- 38- 39- 40- 41- 42- 43- 44- 45- 46- 47- 48- 49-