Customer question: What’s the difference between JavaScript and HTML visitor tracker codes?
Answer: the limit in functionality when using HTML visitor tracking.
Advantages of using JavaScript visitor tracking vs HTML tracking
Because it makes all of the sophisticated tracking options available on your account, JavaScript tracker is the preferred tracking technique. The best way to learn the most about your visitors is to utilize a JavaScript tracker if your website editor lets you install one.
Only social networks or website editors that disallow the use of JavaScript should utilize HTML visitor tracking codes.
Choose the name of your web page provider from the tracker code type option menu while generating your visitor tracking code to find out if your social network or blog supports JavaScript. If the documentation for your particular website is available, the system will automatically provide you with the appropriate code and instructions. If the system doesn’t have information about your web publishing software, first try using JavaScript code and check if it’s working.
The following are some characteristics of JavaScript tracker that HTML tracker does not offer:
- Referrer tracking: find out which domain addresses referred to your content
- Track the keywords that visitors enter into search engines to locate your website, as well as the names and URLs of those engines, their user demographics, and whether or not your website ranks highly and is displayed on the first page of search engine results.
- View your users’ browsing patterns to learn how they move between pages and how much time they spend clicking from one URL to another on your website.
- See the websites that link to you the most frequently and how many visitors are referred over the course of a certain length of time using cumulative external referrer statistics.
- Cumulative keyword statistics: find out which search terms are most frequently used by visitors to your website.
- Search engine rankings and country-specific search engines that send you the most visitors are shown in cumulative search engine data.
- See which pages on your website are referring to other particular pages on your website.
- Find out what size screens your visitors are using and which browsers support JavaScript and Flash.
- Utilize a Page or Link tracker features to allow, block or redirect visitors based on their data
Once the system detects the first visitor after you have correctly inserted a tracker code on your website, your account will immediately convert to the appropriate JavaScript or HTML tracking mode. When a first visitor is detected using the JavaScript version of the tracker, and if you have upgraded your tracker code from the HTML version to the JavaScript version, your account will automatically convert to the advanced tracking mode.