Server Activity Log or Page Visitation Tracking

  • I would like to setup pixel tracking for emails we send for our company’s daily distribution to know when someone opened our email. I simply need to host images on our site and track when then are accessed in the emails. The part I am having trouble with is that I need a plugin or something like a sever activity log to tell me when one of those image files has been accessed so that I can track the activity.

    Also, I cannot use an email services like mailchimp or anything because the companies that I am sending my distributions to block those services and we already have email distribution setup.

    Anyone know of such a plugin or how I can access the server activity logs?

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Server access log locations vary by host. You should ask your host for assistance with that. Download the files that span the time period of interest. You could manually get a hit count by just counting search matches in a text editor, but for more comprehensive analysis you would need some sort of script to extract relevant data and present it in a meaningful way.

    An alternative would be to redirect pixel file requests to a PHP handler that collects data from each request before streaming the file data back to the client.

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