javascript tracking or web log analytics?
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JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?How do these two tracking methods differ and which one is more suitable for your organization?
How it works
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
Introduction to JavaScript Tracking
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
JavaScript Tracking
JS Tracking has earned recognition as the most comprehensive tracking method and is valued for
delivering high-quality insights to users, but also for its extensive customization capabilities.
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
Which web analytics vendors collect data with JS Tracking?
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
JavaScript Tracking should be the default choice because of its extensive
customizability, accuracy, and ease of management.
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
Introduction to Web Log Analytics
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
Web Log Analytics
Web Analytics allows you to collect web server log files and import them into your analytics platform for viewing, analyzing, and reporting. It is recommended
for superior security and data protection.
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
Which web analytics vendors use Web Log Analytics to collect data?
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
Use Web Log Analytics when:
• your organization handles great amounts of sensitive data
• you need to track activity of a particular server
• you want to analyze historical data from your log files
• your website contains too many pages and you don’t want to place JS tags on every single one of them
• you want to track users with JavaScript turned off
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
Let’s move to the differences between JS Tracking and
Web Log Analytics
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
Event Tracking
JavaScript Tracking • Can track events and user
interactions like page views and downloads.
Web Log Analytics • Events are not tracked in
http server logs, but it can precisely track downloads
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Single Page Tracking
JavaScript Tracking • Can track single pages
accurately.
Web Log Analytics • It may be challenging to
achieve with Log Analytics, as the data provided by logs may be hard for the marketer or analyst to read. They will only see the URLs of API calls, which may not mean anything.
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
Device Tracking
JavaScript Tracking • Tracks page titles, browser
resolutions, and installed plugins.
Web Log Analytics • This is not the case with log
analytics, as the relevant data is not available in the server http log files.
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Unique Visitor Tracking
JavaScript Tracking • Uses both first-party
cookies and browser fingerprint in order to accurately identify unique visitors.
Web Log Analytics • Doesn’t use cookies,
therefore cannot identify unique users. Log analytics cannot accurately calculate returning visitors, visitor recency, number of visits to conversion and other metrics related to your users' loyalty.
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
Data Transparency
JavaScript Tracking • JS Tracking provides you
with clean and reliable data.
Web Log Analytics • Log analytics analyzes all
http server calls. There is quite a bit of work required to filter out URLs that are not relevant (like calls from monitoring systems or single page app API calls).
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
Anchor URL Tracking
JavaScript Tracking • Can easily track anchor
URLs.
Web Log Analytics • Cannot track anchor URLs
(like https://piwik.pro/contact/#contact-form): the #contact-form part is not passed to the server by the browser.
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
Tag Implementation
JavaScript Tracking • JS Tracking code must be
placed on every page of your website.
Web Log Analytics • Does not require tracking
code (JavaScript tag) on the website.
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Bandwidth Analytics
JavaScript Tracking • Bandwidth usage cannot
be tracked, because the information is not provided by the web server to the browser client.
Web Log Analytics • It can also be used for
bandwidth analytics of how much bandwidth each website generates.
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Historical Data Access
JavaScript Tracking • You get access to data
collected only from the moment of implementation of your analytics software.
Web Log Analytics • You can process historical
data even if you didn’t previously have any analytics system in place.
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
Download Tracking
JavaScript Tracking • Downloads and other
events from the website may not be registered if the user has a slow connection or JavaScript disabled.
Web Log Analytics • Information from the http
server lets us reliably track all downloads.
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
Ad Blocker Resistance
JavaScript Tracking • It may be blocked by ad
blockers or other browser plugins such as Ghostery.
Web Log Analytics • Resistant to ad blockers
and tracks browsers with disabled JavaScript - we analyze data from the http web server, so the log analytics method always knows about requests made to the server.
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
Security
JavaScript Tracking • Anyone who access your
server can essentially inject any code into your website, capture data from users that leave it on the website, etc. Moreover, JS Tracking requires adding external files into the website. This may not be feasible for many organizations due to data security considerations.
Web Log Analytics • The log analytics server
can be separated from the website for better security. Banks, healthcare and other data-sensitive industries take advantage of this capability.
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
Note that both methods can be customized to meet your particular
needs.
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
Our experts will be happy to provide you with more details.
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
You can also review our concise infographic comparing Web Log
Analytics and JS Tracking
JavaScript Tracking or Web Log Analytics?
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