1.1 Purpose

To provide integrated real-time metrics on the activities of visitors, consumption of content and conversion of campaigns.

1.2 Operation

• Content managers can view a report for any individual content item which is tracked on the site
• Content managers can view general high level metrics on site visitors
• Content managers can drill into individual user activity

In the future, full mouse tracking can be optionally recorded for a sub-set of users

1.3 Technical

A JavaScript include collects client side data and other variables created at render time. When the page is rendered in a browser, these values will be passed to a data collection component.

When a hit on the component is recorded the collection component will do the following:-

• Date/Time – variable
• Split into year / date / day / time fields for faster reporting
• Does the visitor have a session?
• No – create the session and record *all* user profile information
• Read previous visitor cookie – store in PreviousID
• Issue Session(“VisitorID”)
• Record Session(“UserID”)
• Record date/time, year, date, day, time
• Record the view event
• Lookup the Page URL
• Lookup in the URL in the page cache
• If exists relate using the ID
• If Cachable = True and Cached = False then Cache the page
• If not exists create in the Aurora_Live_Pages
• Cachable = False (cachable pages are added to the Live_Pages when they are rendered.
• Record date/time, year, date, day, time

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