On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:49:21AM -0500, Chip Childers wrote: > Given our international audience, I believe that we need to err on the > side of caution here. I'd suggest following the lead of many EU > focused sites, and be explicit about any tracking cookie. We'd need > an opt-out as well.
That gets more complicated. I assume it's possible, but not sure how to do it. I'll have to dig into that. > Another option would be to simply use the web server's logs. Infra > has some details on how to get access to them. That would mean that > we wouldn't need cookies, and we'd lose a bit of data around > individual user paths... but we would get the raw page hit counts. Can we? If we can get the raw logs, that would be OK. As you say, it doesn't give all the info - but it would be a good middle ground if folks don't want to do full-blown analytics. -- Joe Brockmeier Twitter: @jzb http://dissociatedpress.net/
