One of the biggest things I always hear from people considering moving to Adobe SiteCatalyst is the fear of a difficult implementation. It feels to me that most people think they need to implement everything at once, and that is not so. You can just take baby steps and implement small sections at a time. [...]
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Getting Started With the Omniture PHP Measurement Library
The Omniture PHP Measurement Library lets you use PHP to record your visitor’s activity on your Web site. At first glance it can look a little intimidating, but it really is not that complicated. Once you have it implemented, all that you will see in the source code of your pages is the image request [...]
Track Hash Query Parameters in Omniture SiteCatalyst
Do you have a site that uses a hash symbol in the URL with query parameters and you want a way to track them in SiteCatalyst? Well you have come to the right place. What am I talking about? Lets say you have a URL that looks like this: http://webanalyticsland.com/#cid=Hash_Param_Test and you want to capture [...]
Optimize the Time Parting Plugin to get More Detail and Use Less Variables
The Time Parting Plug-in is one of the more popular SiteCatalyst plug-ins available. A standard implementation of the Time Parting plug-in will consume 3 variables. One for Time of Day, one for the Day of Week, and one for Weekday/Weekend. How can we improve this to get more information, and more importantly use less variables? [...]
Additional Methods To Measure Interaction Using The Get Time To Complete Plug-In
Recently there was a great article on the Omniture Blog all about Capturing Time Spent on . . . well, just about anything. It’s a great post and definitely worth checking out. After reading it I was wondering if there was another way to do it? Of course there is! I present the Time To [...]
Enhance Your SiteCatalyst S_Code Using Server-Side Scripting
I receive a lot of questions from people working on their own SiteCatalyst implementations and I’m always happy to help. One that I got recently is “why is your s_code file a php file”? I figured there were not too many people out there doing it like this or even know about this, so I [...]
The getCartOpen and resetGetCartOpen SiteCatalyst Plugins
In our quest to make our SiteCatalyst implementation more powerful and lighten the load on the developers and programmers (who for some reason always have more important things to do then add more Omniture code to the site), there are a couple of plug-ins I like to use to help to set the scOpen event. [...]
Detect Silverlight and Flash with SiteCatalyst Plugin
Tracking your visitor’s Flash version is nothing new. I wrote about it a while ago in the Plugin To Detect Flash in SiteCatalyst post. What I have here is a little more powerful. This is the Rich Internet Application tracking plug-in. RIA development is becoming more and more popular. Do your Visitors have Flash? What [...]
How To Add Page Views And Visits To All SiteCatalyst eVars
Here is a simple way to add Page Views and Visits to all of your eVar reports (see the update below). While Client Care has the ability to turn on a few things, flip some switches here and there to add visits to some reports, I like having full control over it as much as [...]
Omniture Image Request Counter
A little while ago I wrote about how A Robust SiteCatalyst Implementation Could Fail In Internet Explorer. In the article I point out that IE does not like any URL’s that are over 2083 characters. Recently I have had some issues with a few sites where I think they may have been running into this [...]
