Generate Google Analytics events (__utm.gif requests) serverside

Question

I am willing to use Google Analytics to track stats about usage of my Client/Server application (no Browser on the user computer!).

So I guess if anyone ever tried t

Answer 1

From inspecting my cookies in firefox for a site that is a known user of google analytics I see it stores 3 values (all 3 start with 2 underscores):

• __utmc - 9 digit integer (probably)
• __utma - very long integer with periods thrown in (starts with 9 digits above)
• __utmz - long string period seperated (starts with 9 digits from utmc)

My guess is utmc is your tracking session id.