Hi guys,

I thought it would be valuable to be able to tell if somebody has bookmarked/addedd your sit to their favourites list, anybody do this or know how to?

Help much appreciated.

Cheers

I don't think its possible but have a look at Google Analytics - It's very detailed and in-depth.

You used to be able to do this for IE, by seeing how many requests you had to your favicon, but this has since been disabled because it was determined bookmarking should be private.

Originally Posted by wayfarer07

You used to be able to do this for IE, by seeing how many requests you had to your favicon, but this has since been disabled because it was determined bookmarking should be private.

Well determined!

Still, the other reason maybe it doesn't happen any more is that favicon was being requested fairly early on (as it is now) by things like toolbars, and so you don't get a proper count, since you'd never be able to distinguish. Plus there's the issue of other browsers! Firefox/Mozilla has a fairly big share of the traffic.

Bookmarking isn't much of a useful measure for salespeople anyway.

Think about it - we bookmark loads of stuff that we never go back to.

The only valid analysis is watching repeat visits - capturing IPs, monitoring all activity closely and so having effective charting of people's return visits, when they come back, on what page - then you can figure out what they bookmarked very easily.

I think Google Analytics, as I've said, is a bad direction to go in. Their webmaster tools don't even properly let you know how many people visit you from google itself, unless you only get 10 visitors a week!

Analytics probably focuses on sticking annoying stuff in your site which not only slows down its loading but doesn't really study the inside of your server as you can do yourself by just grasping the commands for monitoring the insides of servers and keeping tabs on access logs (and making numerous access logs to keep tabs on as well as the generic ones).

Right now on my search engine I monitor every movement in a way that means I can see exactly what search engine led them to me, what product they asked that engine for, where they ended up on my site, what products they searched for on my site, where they went after that, and I can see when they came even if it was months ago, so if they come back thirty times, every single time my software will be able to dig up the original access to the site and know that they came from this page on this day from this search, etc.

For me at the moment the most vital part of all my tracking has been being able to clearly see the major product areas I am pulling lots of traffic in from, and I am very pleased to say that due to highly guided (by self-teaching) work, more than 80% of the products I am moving are over £100 per item.

But it is reassuring when your developing a new site to see people appreciate it enough to bookmark it. Also you can get an indication of how user-freindly or how usefull your site is by the rate it is being bookmarked. eg how many bookmarks per thousand new visitors.