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how do I make stats plugin work with masked domain?
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 8:18 pm
by Elaine
My stats plugin doesn't give me any good data on who comes to my site. I'm guessing it has to do with my masked domain. Any ideas how to fix it?
Re: how do I make stats plugin work with masked domain?
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 8:26 pm
by garvinhicking
Hi!
The stats plugin is very basic, maybe you'd better like to use Google Analytics or some other external stat tools like awstats.
Regards,
Garvin
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:37 am
by Elaine
No, I mean it doesn't tell me where hits are coming from. It gets confused by the masked domain and says everyone comes from blog.elainevigneault.com (a masked domain that redirects to
www.elainevigneault.com/serendipity).
I'm just wondering if there is a place to specify that type of information.
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:38 am
by Elaine
And thank you for the google analytics suggestion. I know about it and am using it, I just wondered if the serendipity stats could give me anything worthwhile.
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 11:42 am
by garvinhicking
Hi!
Sadly your masking just uses a HTTP forward, so there's no way for s9y to detect that this is not a "valid" link.
The way you use the HTTP forward, you have NO way at all to detect wher epeople are coming from! Even Google Analytics is not able to do that. This is because the REFERRER is only submitted to contain the LAST page, not the page before that.
Best regards,
Garvin
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:04 pm
by Elaine
By the way, I'm no longer using serendipity. It's a good blogging platform but I switched to wordpress since WP is supported better by the blogging community at large.