Single page websites are a relatively new class of web sites that are
gaining some traction, at least in some contexts
(http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/the-science-behind-a-single-page-website/).
As the name suggests, they are websites made of a single page (thus
_usually_ a single URL) and different contents are accessed by means of
CSS and JavaScript.
I'm studying them since they are at the boundary of what I usually call
"web application" (in contrast to website). The experiments I'm doing
aren't at the moment with a real single-page website (but I'll start
designing one sooner or later), rather with a regular website that
includes complex subsections made of a single page. For instance, photo
galleries. I've redesigned all my photo galleries to get rid of Flash
(originally in order to support the iPad etc) so they are now running a
JQuery script. Each gallery can be thought as a single page website,
even though by using #hash URLs I'm making them bookmarkable (e.g.
during the slideshow starting at
http://stoppingdown.net/diary/2010/January/CornicheEsterel/ you'll see
the URL changing as
http://stoppingdown.net/diary/2010/January/CornicheEsterel/#20100102-0022,
http://stoppingdown.net/diary/2010/January/CornicheEsterel/#20100102-0001 etc...
as the photos go on).
Now, the question. Having HTML seems to be an advantage for indexing
(e.g. by Google) and for analytics (e.g. by Google Analytics). Consider
the photo example: each photo has got its own title and metadata
(keywords), and I'd like Google to be able to index them. Actually, each
set of keywords could be bound to a real URL (e.g. keyword1 ->
.../#20100102-0022, keyword2 -> .../#20100102-0001, etc... so when I
google for keyword1 I should see the first URL, including the anchor
after the #hash, among the results). But is this possible in practice?
If yes, how?
Same thing for analytics: my site is registered to Google Analytics, but
it seem unable to distinguish URLs that only differ after the #hash.
After all, they are the same page. Is there any way to have Google
Analytics to consider them separate pages?
Thanks.
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