我应该使用什么来从其他网站获取统计信息？

Question

I don't know my question title is correct or not but let me explain you what I want to do.

So I want to generate a script from my dashboard website(eg dashboard.com) which user will put on his website's page( http://userwebsite.com/thankyou.php ) and when any user visit that page I want to store the number of visits of that page on my dashboard website( http://dashboard.com ).

Currently I am using XMLHttpRequest . So I generate a script which has the code of Ajax and that ajax hits a post request on my dashboard website(I am using some token for a particular script).

I am not sure this is the right way or not to achieve my goal.I am sure you guys have seen these kind of scripts. There are so many websites (most popular Google Analytics).

Please help me what should I do for it, or it's fine to use ajax?

Thanks.

Answer 1

JavaScript is a common choice for that type of thing, so you're on the right track with Ajax. One of the advantages to the JavaScript approach is that it's simple for other users to add it on a site.

With your script, you can add options for naming the page, or recording certain actions, etc. You may have an issue if a user has disabled JavaScript, but that tends to be a small number of users these days.

I will say that I see GET requests used more often for that type of thing.