Warning: This may not be the answer you were looking for. In order to generate logs on the web server you would have to generate requests to the web server. You're going to have this problem with any AJAX, Flash, Flex, or any other client heavy web application. They don't generate requests to the server for everything they do. This is one of the advantages of this type of application, and is one of the reasons programs like Google Analytics have been gaining so much ground. Google Analytics tracks client activity, not server activity.
You can also have this problem if you are using edge caching or distributed systems like Akami, or even if you are using a cluster of local servers. Current industry trend is to moving away from server log processing and towards monitoring client activity. I don't see this changing anytime soon. I'd suggest that this might be a good time to encourage your client to move towards something like Google Analytics, Omniture, Hitbox, etc... -Cameron On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Justin Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks a ton for the help, I'll look into that of course, but my main > question had to do with stats tracking that was outside of any Google API. > A normal website generates logs on the web server. Those logs are usually > in a W3C compliant format. They can be imported into stats systems such as > SmarterStats which would then generate charts/views/etc of the stats for the > client to see. > > Is there any good way to accommodate the same type of stats tracking when a > site is specifically coded in Flex (i.e. no inherent request/response)? > (Mainly so a customer who is used to using SmarterStats could continue doing > so, and keep in mind that SmarterStats parses W3C compliant logs so the main > issue I have is Flex stats tracking using W3C compliant logging). > > Thanks, > > Justin Nichols > Nexteppe Business Solutions > (877) 572-8892 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.nexteppe.com > > Evan Mullins wrote: > > Justin, > > Here's an article about integrating flash with google analytics, it should > be pretty simple to port to as3 and flex. > http://blog.circlecube.com/2008/01/28/integrate-google-analytics-with-flash-tutorial/ > > -Evan Mullins > http://circlecube.com > > > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Justin Nichols > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I've been tasked with figuring out what it would take to provide website >> statistics (such as unique visitors, returning visitors, page accesses, etc) >> for a Flex-based website. Obviously the entry-point will generate standard >> logs, but if the Flex app uses view-states which mimic page "loads", then >> the web server will never see those view-state changes. >> >> We have ideas such as when a view-state changes, we would send a blind >> http call to a page on the server to act as a page "load" so the web server >> logs will be updated as such, but that seems quite cumbersome and not really >> the right way of doing it. >> >> Can anyone point me to any information on this? I understand that we can >> tie into Google Analytics, but that's mainly because Google exposes an API >> for it. What about other stats systems like SmarterStats which handles the >> standard W3C logging format (usually generated by the web server in a >> standard request/response setting)? >> >> Thanks so much!! >> >> -- >> Justin Nichols >> Nexteppe Business Solutions >> (877) 572-8892 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> www.nexteppe.com >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in >> the subject line >> >> For more info, see http://www.affug.com >> Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ >> List hosted by FusionLink >> ------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in the > subject line > > For more info, see http://www.affug.com > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ > List hosted by FusionLink > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in the > subject line > > For more info, see http://www.affug.com > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ > List hosted by FusionLink > ------------------------------------------------------------- -- Cameron Childress Sumo Consulting Inc http://www.sumoc.com --- cell: 678.637.5072 aim: cameroncf email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in the subject line For more info, see http://www.affug.com Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
