Question

We want to add tracking statistics to a web application we are building but are pretty unsure of how to go about it. (i.e. clicks, pageviews, unique visits etc)

Does anyone have any articles on the best way to go about incorporating tracking data into an application ? i.e. javascript tracking or IIS etc ?

We want to add tracking in as a ASP.NET MVC module – but we are unsure as to the best way to actually get the data and essentially ‘track’ this information ?

If anyone could help out – much appreciated.

Edit: just to be clear, we want to do this in-house and present the stats to our users as an additional fee module?

Answer 1

You can turn on the logging for IIS and then use the SQL Server Report Server Pack for IIS. It comes with many canned reports for your sites stats and then you could take it from there with your own custom reports.

You could also just use log parser to get the stats into a SQL Server DB and then you could use SQL from their to analyse and roll your own app.

Either way, you could modularize this and sell it as an add-on to your customer base.