Google Analytics and osC Session ID

[jdw814]

Hi,

 

I have a fairly new osCommerce store that is running great, but I have a slight problem...

 

I have Google Analytics on my site -- in the "includes/footer.php" file -- but am having a bit of a problem getting relevant data because it is posting each Session ID as a "hit" to a separate page...

 

For example: If Customer X and Y both go to Category 1, I get 1 hit for "https://www.mysite.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=1&osCsid=XYZ" and another for "https://www.mysite.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=1&osCsid=ABC". (I'm simplifying the actual link greatly, for the sake of the example...)

 

Does anyone know how to fix this so that both show up as hits for "https://mysite.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=1"?

 

Is it something I need to change in the way I am handling sessions? If so, how?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thank you,

Julie Williams

[spooks]

You must ensure google & others do not generate sessions when they crawl your site, as

 

1. You will get hit for duplicate content

 

2. Visitors following the links could get each others data confused by the app.

 

There's more http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=330479&hl

 

 

Admin/sessions set:

 

Prevent Spider Sessions to true & update your spiders.txt

 

Recreate Session to true

 

Matt has also created I nice post here with a mod for regenerating the session and preventing shared sessions from shared links

 

 

 

[Xpajun]

If I'm right - and I'm not sure :rolleyes: - each page and every image that makes up the page is registered as a hit.

Visits are more important both new and returning along with pages visited, time on site and keywords.