anyway to track bot behavior with google analytics?

[fastmanfunnay]

is there anyway to track bot behavior with google analytics?

[mvandemar]

is there anyway to track bot behavior with google analytics?

Google Analytics is driven by a snippet of external Javascript that browsers load when the page loads. Since bots don't load external scripts then no, no way to do that.

-Michael

[r3born]

Probably not, you'll have to stick to AwStats :)

is there anyway to track bot behavior with google analytics?

[fastmanfunnay]

Google Analytics is driven by a snippet of external Javascript that browsers load when the page loads. Since bots don't load external scripts then no, no way to do that.

-Michael

you could have just said no

[mvandemar]

you could have just said no

Because going through life not knowing why things are the way they are is so much more fun...?

-Michael

[seo ranter]

you could have just said no

If he just said no, then what exactly did you learn?? nothing....by taking his time to provide a proper eplanation, you now now why google analytics or any other javascript tracking program, can't track googlebot

[fastmanfunnay]

If he just said no, then what exactly did you learn?? nothing....by taking his time to provide a proper eplanation, you now now why google analytics or any other javascript tracking program, can't track googlebot

i would have learned that google analytics didn't track search engine bots, and my curiosity would have been satisfied

[mvandemar]

i would have learned that google analytics didn't track search engine bots, and my curiosity would have been satisfied

Trust me, though you choose to live a life of "just enough" knowledge and no more, someone who actually gets something from knowing the whys and wherefores of the question will eventually happen across this thread an appreciate it.

-Michael

[fastmanfunnay]

Trust me, though you choose to live a life of "just enough" knowledge and no more, someone who actually gets something from knowing the whys and wherefores of the question will eventually happen across this thread an appreciate it.

-Michael

well in that case:

you're welcome for whoever finds this thread helpful.

i couldnt have done it without mvandemar though, how about a round of applause?

[janmars]

Use Crawl Track from http://www.crawltrack.fr/ and it will tell you exactly what all the bots that visit your site are doing. It even lets you know which company the bots belong too.