[MadCat]

Originally Posted by p3rlphr33k

Javascript is a waste of time on a free site. Only a few places will allow it IF you are a trusted submitter, and IF they even agree with that trusted submitter rule. The LL owners make the calls and JS is out. I had started another thread a few weeks ago about tracking outbound links with perl here:

http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...ad.php?t=49084

and here are a few example sites that I actually implemented this and got listed.

http://btuz.com/ms/pornparty/index.html
http://btuz.com/ms/knockers/index.html

(sorry about the spam)
Hope this helps.

Well the thing is that the statistics I want to gather can't all be gotten from webserver logs -- most of it can, with a stupendously extensive amount of processing to deal with it, but we're talking like, Google Analytics style stats here

As far as outgoing links go, I never really care about what I send out on recips, most I care about is what I get off a submission, which LL sends me most traffic and whether said traffic is being productive (read: clicking my banners), so I can gather some stats on which are the best places to submit certain types of sites. Like I said, I can get a lot of that off the webserver logs (referer headers and such), but the actual click tracking is better done with JS and a tracking cookie.

Otherwise I have to take my webserver logs, parse every entry for the referer and the actual directory on the domain it was sent to, then match that with information I keep in a database on freesites and domains, then dig through an outgoing click tracker on my banners, match up IP addresses or cookies, re-parse that bunch, and then write out a final bunch of stats.

With JS I can skip most of the stupid processing it'd require otherwise.

But yeah, looks like I'll be stuck having to code that one up.