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  • 01-04-2011 11:43am
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    madarekrap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭


    Hi all!

    I am involved in publishing a series of internal web pages in work, which is revised every c.3 months. We currently manually edit the html code after to insert a web counter. The html simply tells the external site e.g. "site=6" and the external site returns a .jpeg picture of the counter....

    Some concerns have been raised regarding the security of doing this, seeing as it is an internal site, and not for public consumption... so what's the best way of going about putting a counter on the sites that do not communicate with an external source.

    I have full access to the source code of all of the web pages so that is not an issue. Would it be possible to use Google Analytics here?

    Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
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    Pixelcraft
    Registered Users Posts: 742 ✭✭✭Pixelcraft


    Analytics should be fine, or alternatively you could use your own hosted solution such as mint


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,239 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    What type of webserver do they run on? There are a few tools that can analyse the HTTP log files on the webserver and generate very rich reports.


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    madarekrap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭madarekrap


    Thanks for the replies guys... Eoin how would I find that out? I have sent an email asking but that might take a few days so if there was a way I could do it myself it would be better?!


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,239 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    You should be able to get more info by viewing the headers of the website. Most browsers have a developer plugin that allows you to see these. I used the web developer plugin for Chrome. The inbuilt Chrome one might also do this, but I couldn't find the option.

    When I browsed to our intranet server, I got the following:
    Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:01:31 GMT
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Content-Length: 4346
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Content-Type: text/html

    In my case, it's IIS, so I just need to google for "IIS log file analyser". If you're running Apache, then AWStats should do the trick for you.


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