analytics when using handlers

analytics when using handlers

posted Sat, Sep 06 2008 03:20PM

by vantoko

Joined: Sep 06 2008

Points: 210 | Posts: 2

I have a question regarding websites that use custom handlers to redirect pages.

When you would create a loader.ashx file in asp.net and you use that handler to make use of seo friendly pages it’s not easy to use analytics.

For instance :

In web.config I refirect every page that contains “country” to loader.ashx

www.microsoft.com/country/belgium.aspx is redirected internally to

loader.ashx?type=country&name=Belgium

which would refer to

countries.aspx?id=4 (where 4 is the ID related to Belgium

in my analytics, I get the loader.asxh?type=country&name=Belgium as the visited url.

Is there a way to get around this ?

thanks

koen

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posted Fri, Sep 12 2008 12:01PM

by Brian Decker - MSFT

Joined: Mar 17 2008

Points: 2,830 | Posts: 31

Hi Koen,

I'm not sure you'll be able to get the /belgium.aspx page to register as the page the customer went to, as the Analytics script has to execute from that specific URL to register. Since the script exectues from the loader.asxh?typ=counter&name=Belgium page, that is what will get registered in Analytics. You could try putting in exclusions, but I do not think this will give you the information you are looking for. It would likely just lump all the hits on to loader.ashx.

Brian Decker - MSFT

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