"We built our own analytic software." "We built a page logger."
wat.
Seriously, doesn't any use the technology that was given to them in the late 90s? Apache write log files. Open source packages analyze these log files. If your web server can't write compatible log files, you have a problem. If the code you are writing can't tell it's being run or that all its parts aren't being loaded, you have a problem. Don't want to go with log files? Fine, have each of your page scripts dump a row into a database table. This sorta reaches back to a comment I had about web security - why is "analytics" a non-solved problem on your server such that you need Google (et al.) to do the job for you?
Then there's these web stacks/frameworks that think they have to re-invent the web server. But that's another peeve for another thread.
eh, I enjoy a good "Damn kids!" rant as much as the next guy; And really, complaining about how kids today don't know all the basic tools we had in the '90s is about as newsworthy as complaining about click fraud on facebook.
Yes. Because Knowing Your Tools gets you to "zomg click fraud" a helluva lot faster than "wtf? analyze. wtf? write my own analyze! wtf? oh, write logging!!"
wat.
Seriously, doesn't any use the technology that was given to them in the late 90s? Apache write log files. Open source packages analyze these log files. If your web server can't write compatible log files, you have a problem. If the code you are writing can't tell it's being run or that all its parts aren't being loaded, you have a problem. Don't want to go with log files? Fine, have each of your page scripts dump a row into a database table. This sorta reaches back to a comment I had about web security - why is "analytics" a non-solved problem on your server such that you need Google (et al.) to do the job for you?
Then there's these web stacks/frameworks that think they have to re-invent the web server. But that's another peeve for another thread.