Category — Error Pages

Javascript analytics tags like WebTrends’ SDC tags generally don’t track error pages, i.e. 404s (page not found), 500’s (server errors), and so forth. Server log files do. Most people accept the absence of error tracking as one of the tradeoffs of using tagging, outweighed by tagging’s many other advantages.

It’s actually easy to track error pages even if you tag your pages. It’s done by getting your site’s server to return a tagged page whenever one of these client or server errors happens.