We maintain sessions for a variety of reasons. Our sites contain multiple user facing applications, typically dealing with product detail or directly reviewing client inventory. Sessions are used to track a site user's full path through a site. Page views, lead submissions, app level review (some of our front-end apps are Flash based). So, we get full activity reporting, plus are able to differentiate (in our stats review) multiple site sessions by the same user, seeing if return sessions might be more productive, and tying together the session's activity for complete user action overview.
Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Co-Author of "Learning Ext JS" http://www.packtpub.com/learning-ext-js/book _____________________________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Judah McAuley wrote: > Out of curiosity, what are the primary business objectives for > maintaining session on pages that are not user-specific? I typically > have divided my site into two parts, a public part that doesn't > maintain session and then an area behind a login form. Once you have > logged in and identified yourself as a user, I keep track of the user > through the whole site, public and private. But I don't generally see > a need to maintain session info for a visitor unless they have done > something user-specific, which would require a login. That eliminates > bots right there. > > Judah > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Cutter (CFRelated) > <[email protected]> wrote: >> We found this post from Ben Nadel to be extremely helpful in detecting >> bot traffic. We have a highly customized statistical tracking system in >> place for our web traffic, and wanted to accomplish two primary >> objectives: a) not record page views of bots, and b) not maintain a >> separate session on every page view (this is accomplished by identifying >> the visit as a bot and setting the session timeout to 2 sec). We have >> found Ben's work here to be highly effective. >> >> http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1083-ColdFusion-Session-Management-And-Spiders-Bots.htm >> >> Steve "Cutter" Blades >> Adobe Certified Professional >> Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer >> >> Co-Author of "Learning Ext JS" >> http://www.packtpub.com/learning-ext-js/book >> _____________________________ >> http://blog.cutterscrossing.com >> >> Jim McAtee wrote: >>> We keep our own page view stats in a database and want to avoid counting >>> page views by visiting spyders. What's a good method for recognizing >>> spyders without throwing away valid visitor page views? >>> >>> Something using cgi.user_agent, no doubt, but how can we keep a fairly >>> comprehensive list up to date, and do we try to do exact string matches, >>> partial matches, or what? >>> >>> >>> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:318061 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
