This post covers a lot of short WebTrends related questions that jump out at us when we look at our on-site and off-site search reports. The topics range from critical ones like DCS Multitrack and increasing the length of reports to little guys like seeing # in URLs.

If you’ve had the opportunity to take a look under the hood of your SDC page tag (and you understand javascript) then you should be pleasantly surprised at how readable the SDC tag is. Take a look at almost any other tool and you’ll find an obfuscated mess. There is not a chance that you could modify how those work. But the SDC tag? Go ahead and hack it up to your heart’s content!

Here’s an easy way to see what SDC is sending to your SDC server, for any SDC-tagged page your browser is looking at.  Enter this in the address bar and hit Enter:
        javascript:alert(gImages[0].src);
For the same thing, but cut-and-pasteable, do:
        javascript:document.write(gImages[0].src);
Bookmark them so you can quickly do it anytime, on any page your browser is on.
 
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