On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 11:16 -0500, Jesse Eversole Jr wrote:
Sure,
Omniture uses what I call a "client side" tracking technique using javascript to dynamically markup an image tag with a query string and fetch that image from Omniture's servers sending data to them via the query string. Google and Yahoo offer similar services with less sophisticated features, but the approach is effectively the same. The data is stored on Omniture's servers and available for reporting in near real time especially when it comes to basic traffic data. It is probably important to note that Omniture and awstats are not mutually exclusive. One is server based and the other runs on the webpage sending data to a hosted platform.
I would have to dig into details to completely expose what our license agreement with Omniture is as is applies to the usage of their software since is a service that we buy from them. Omniture is more akin to Salesforce.com and Google Analytics.
Oh, right. This is where we got in trouble around about FC6, wasn't it? B/c it is more or less a tracking image?
-sv