Javascript on sites

[MadCat]

I replied to another thread and my own reply got me wondering what the rules are as far as having javascript on a freesite.

I have my own tracker that records incoming hits and their source, as well as the usual browser type, screen resolution and so on. I'm not using it right now because as far as I recall, JS on a freesite = not getting it listed.

Is that still the case?

[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.

[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.