On The Trail

It’s been a long time since I posted here, but one of my new years resolutions is to post more often. Plus, what with new GA and Microsoft code being released the cry for an update to my WA Detector script has been deafening. Well, actually only Jaques Warren of http://www.waomarketing.com/ asked for an update, and since I kinda wanted one myself I went ahead and updated it.

It now checks for MS Analytics and Google Analytics v2 code. For MS Analytics it outputs what would be sent if you called “TrackPage” on that page. I’m still not smart enough to decode the GA javascript enough to output what is sent, so it just lets you know that the code is present on the page. I also updated it to detect the latest version of WebTrends’ tag and I removed the VS check. I’ve learned a lot more about this product in the last year and I now know it was pretty ridiculous to make any sort of claim of reliably detecting it.

Due to WordPress’s very un-helpful smart quote feature I couldn’t put the bookmarklets in this post. You can find them in the right margin of my blog. Again, there are two versions of it. The first one works for IE7 and Firefox. For Firefox just drag the following link to your links toolbar, for IE7 right click and choose “add to favorites”. Then save it in the links folder.

This second one works for IE6. Right click and choose “Add to Favorites” and save it in your links folder. The downside to this one is that it will call back to blog.keyes.us each time you use it and it gives an error on https pages.
These updates will not overwrite the old version, so if they don’t work as well then a) let me know why and/or b) keep using the old version. These have been lightly tested so please let me know of any problems you encounter when using them.

Finally, if you’re interested in this you may like Stéphane Hamel’s WASP tool. It’s much more fully featured than this one, but it works differently. Also Eric Peterson has a hosted vendor discovery tool that you may find useful.
PS — somehow my comments table got corrupted, so all the comments on my previous posts were lost. Sorry! If your comment was deleted it’s not that I hate you, it’s that my Wordpress database hates you!