Best practices on what data to collect in an in-app web analytics

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Published on 2010-05-19T08:18:33Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 8:20 UTC
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Hi!

In our SaaSy webapp we need to collect Google Analytics-like data (like, what pages were visited, how many 404s where there, etc.). I wonder if there are any best practices on what pieces of information should be collected (like, IP, User Agent, etc.) and how should these logs be stored. Requirements on what statistics we're going to display are not yet fixed, but I want to have a starting point.

Can you help me out with this? Thanks.

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