Data Collection

In this screen you will have to select the Data Collection Method.

You have 3 options.

1. Java Tracker,
this is Java code that will have to be copied into each web page that you wish to track.
That ain't as bad as it sounds, most websites will have a "commen header" or "commen footer" if you insert
the code in 1 of these page elements, (copying only once), the code will be included on each page,
with a "commen header" or "commen footer".

2. Log File Analysis,
with this option Logaholic will import your local web server log file.
You will have to indicate in your profile in which directory, on your server, Logaholic can find the Logfile.

3. Log File Analysis with Ftp,
This is the same as 2. But the Log file is locally not available, so will have to be copied, to the location
where your Logaholic is installed.

What to choose? Java Tracker or Log file analysis.

In general I would say, if you can ... use log files.

• Log files contain your historical data, a tracker will only start collecting data after you have tagged your pages.
• Using log files, you can track every file on your server, no need to add any code to your pages
• Using log files, you can better detect crawler activity, deep linkers, click fraud, spammers and errors
• Using log files, you can still track visitors that have disabled javascript
• Using log files, you are not able to track Screen Resolution and Color Palette, unless you use Logaholic's Hybrid Mode.
• Using a javascript tracker, you can only track what you can 'tag'.

Having said all that, there are situations where a javascript tracker is preferable over log files:

• If you dont have or cant use your log files in any way.
• If your site is super huge with a lot of traffic, your log files may get very big very fast.

In this case it might be better to use the javascript tracker to just track the stuff you are interested in.
This saves a lot of data, and logaholic will be faster as a result.

View Tim Wilsons movie it explains in 4 minutes what a Java Tracker does and how it could work for your Website.

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