Form Abandonment

NOTE: The code samples below are merely a proof of concept. This solution is not actively in place in any production environmetn that I am involved with. I was talking to a fellow ColdFusion developer about a web site he was working on, specifically a registration form, and what were some of the best practices with form length and such that would facilitate users filling out the form and submitting.   This is a common issue … Continue Reading →

Pathing: Internal Search Analysis. (not just for page views)

When I was at the Omniture training class a few weeks back, the instructor mentioned that an advantage of storing the internal search terms in a s.prop was that you could get pathing enabled on the s.prop and you would then be able to see not only what your visitors were searching on, but how they refined their search. Note: After you choose which s.prop you are going to use to store/capture the data in, … Continue Reading →

jQuery FTW! Auto-tag static links for Omniture.

I am knee deep in implementing Omniture into our existing corporate site, and sometimes…. the path is clear as mud. The task of the day was to tag a set of links so that they would show up as Products in SiteCatalyst. The sub-task, ok maybe my personal bias, was to do so in a way that I would not have to babysit the page and keep updating the tags as new links were added. … Continue Reading →