What a tracker really shows

Hello I have tried all sorts of trackers and I've come to the realization that i really dont like them at all! becuz they either do not track correctly or others have entered info wrong!! So i just deleted my tracker(s) all together and put my account on private!

so my question IS are there trackers out there that can track you when you are viewing a private profile?? like a IP counter??

Full credit to this post goes to E Lite who emailed me all of this information including screen shots (thank you)

SiteMeter

SiteMeter Home Screen

SiteMeter “Details” page

“By Location” View (It’s the same list, in the same order, for the same users as you see in the previous “Details” page, but it provides the City and State information –handy when you’re looking for a date

Individual Details about Users (kinda cool because it tells you stuff about the domain name, ISP, the number of page views the user pulled up in a single session, and the user’s OS and Browser)

Traffic Projection (SiteMeter makes a guess about what your traffic will look like in the next Hour, Day, Week and Month)

ProfileViewsPlus

ProfileViewsPlus (I can’t say that I recommend this tracker, but I do use it. ProfileViewsPlus has a lot of interruption ads, which are just irritating. Also, I took the liberty of highlighting something in this page view: it’s the “Filter Out” options… By default, it seems, it wants to “Filter Out” almost everything by default when you sign in, so you have to make sure you uncheck these boxes to see your report)

If you click the little magnifying glass next to the user’s IP address, it will show a list of the user’s previous page trafficking on your site

That’s it really… not much to it.

ProfileSnitch

ProfileSnitch (I don’t suggest using this tracker. First off, it sucks… that is, it’s below average in its ability to track users –many go unnoticed by this service. Next, its always trying to get you to its Premium Account… for which, it boasts, that you can get the invisible ProfileSnitch tracker… which leads me to my next point: the bright, strobing, fluorescent ads that they attach to the embed code are so loud and obnoxious that you’ll be pissed to see them on your page. But, if you want to try it out for shits and giggles, I’ll show you how I altered the code so it doesn’t have those nasty ads. This is an old account, I’m not using ProfileSnitch any longer because it’s annoying, and I just don’t like it… plus, it slows down my computer too.)

So, here is what the embed code looks like when you copy it from ProfileSnitch:

<a href="http://www.profsnitch-redir1.com"><img src="http://www.profsnitch-redir1.com/tracker24/64PK58KS05.gif" border="0"></a><br><a href="http://www.profsnitch-redir1.com">Track Who Is Viewing Myspace at <br> Profile Snitch</a>

To make things easier on myself, there’s a suffix I use on every line of code that makes everything invisible: “border=0 height=0 width=0>“. That way, I don’t have to think and play around the with it too much, trying to figure out what’s generating the ad. So, here’s what the new would look like:

<a href=http://www.profsnitch-redir1.com border=0 height=0 width=0><img src="http://www.profsnitch-redir1.com/tracker24/64PK58KS05.gif" border=0 height=0 width=0></a><br><a href=http://www.profsnitch-redir1.com border=0 height=0 width=0></a>

There you go! If you wanna try out the invisible ProfileSnitch tracker, don’t bother with a Premium Account. Save your money for a gallon of gas, and follow the changes I made, and you’ll have it for FREE.

StatCounter

StatCounter (I know this tracker has already been touched on, but I have two different StatCounter “Projects”, one for MySpace, and one for Blogger. For Blogger, StatCounter works like a charm, providing better information than Google Analytics… I’d tell you about it, but I’m gonna show you instead. However, for MySpace, it doesn’t do as well… the StatCounter embed code has two parts, an HTML and an XHTML code, and XHTML doesn’t work in MySpace… Unfortunately, that happens to be the portion of code that gives StatCounter the ability to track where people are coming to your page from, what they’re doing while their on your site, and where they’re going while they leave)

This is an example of a “Recent Activity” report on StatCounter for my Blogger page. I’ve highlighted one of the lines so you can see the user’s Referring URL.

However, this is a report from MySpace “Project.” You’ll notice that all the reports’ Referring URLs read: “No referring link.”

It’s too bad that StatCounter doesn’t record the referring URL on a MySpace Profile, but it’s still pretty cool. There’s a lot of features on this site too… I could tell you about it, but it’d probably be easier just to check it out.

UPDATE:  as of now trackspace is dead - RIP.  I'll leave this here in case it should come back to life (lets pray it does - its a good one)

This is Trackspace.net (Free). Now most of the time YOU have to identify the person but here is a example of one that is already identified.

Profile:	IP/Location:	Last Visit:	# Visits	Delete	Alert ?
View Profile (Wrong Person?)	12.123.456.789 UNITED STATES BEDMINSTER, NEW JERSEY Detailed Visitor Report	06-21-2008 10:29:11 pm (Time not right ?) Came from: Other	4	<>

When you click on Detailed visitor report you see something like this (on their own site)

Report for IP [12.123.456.789], track id [e4a663dc52419a29e4a747623b4b5f6446872a6b]:

 

Here is a example of MixMap.com - this is a FREE tracker

Where is says "Enter Name" you can change that and identify the IP. Now the IP addy is hyperlinked and when you click on it you go to DSNstuff. For this one I saw this:

IP address:                     12.123.456.789
Reverse DNS:                    adsl-12.123.456.789.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net.
Reverse DNS authenticity:       [Verified]
ASN:                            0
ASN Name:                       IANA-RSVD-0
IP range connectivity:          0
Registrar (per ASN):            Unknown
Country (per IP registrar):     US [United States]
Country Currency:               USD [United States Dollars]
Country IP Range:               xx.xxx.xxxx to xx.xxx.xxxx 

Country fraud profile:          Normal
City (per outside source):      Pasadena, California
Country (per outside source):   US [United States]
Private (internal) IP?          No
IP address registrar:           whois.arin.net
Known Proxy?                    No
Link for WHOIS:                12.123.456.789

edit (additional info):  Mixmap is a good easy to use IP tracker. I also like that you can make blog trackers and photo trackers, You can have many different profiles under one account which makes it sweet. I will say that I'm not a huge fan of DNS stuff where you can get the additional info so I tend to copy the IP and run it through MaxMind (which I think shows the best hit for location - not perfect but I think gives the closest hit).

 

This is a example of profiletracker.us (its a paid tracker at $5.00 a month)

laura Pictures View

427) June 21, 2008 8:34:50 AM EST - Check - Delete The 4 Other Entries From This IP Address FriendID: 987654321- Delete The 20 Other Entries From This FriendID IP address: 12.123.456.789 - Lookup IP Info Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) URL: http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewAlbums&friendID=16384... Came From: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=1...

Now when you click on more info (next to the IP addy) you are taken to MaxMind. For this one this is what I saw:

edit (additional info):  Now if that person is in their data base it will show who they are (meaning someone identified them or they were tracked with a older code that positively identified them). One other thing I really like is that you can search their data base to see it they ever tracked a person by either IP or myspace ID so that is a sweet feature. Is it a perfect tracker no but I am very happy with it. I would say it identifies (correctly) 75% of my hits. If it doesn't have that IP in the data it will do a "likely match" via their PC info which I find to be about a 50/50. Either way I think it is defiantly worth the $5. a month (after all what is that a trip to Mc Donalds).