The problem I am having is filtering out the users that come to our homepage just to login, since we have the client button on the homepage (and yes I've tried to get them to put it somewhere else).
I can't think of a way to do it because they don't look any different than potential clients, other than that they may visit more often and click on the button. Any ideas or software that might accomplish this?
one way, is to associate a cookie with those users and either a) don't load the tracking code when cookie is present, or b) in Analytics Settings -> Filter Manager, add an exclusion pattern matching the cookie name. a) would be more flexible.
now, there's no way to tell if the user is going to stay on the main site or hop to the client area... so it might undercount in some cases. but you might find that better than the overcount showing up now...
a slightly more intrusive option, would be a JavaScript overlay / splash screen that shows up when you detect a user returning that asks them, "Would you like to go directly to your client area? [YES] [NO, TAKE ME TO THE MAIN SITE]". in that case, the tracking code wouldn't be loaded unless, they say are going to the main site...
if using the filter manager method, you'll want to register the variable like so:
<body onLoad=”javascript:pageTracker._setVar('my_cookie_name_guid')”>
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I’m making app-ish gatsby website with authentication.
Im displaying user menu in header if user is logged in, and login button if not.
Until session is checked, I dont know if I should show menu or login button. Because of that I decided not to show website at all initially (if session cookie/token is not detected, website is loaded almost immediately, but initially its blocked too), until session information comes back from backend.
I did this by simply creating session reducer with initial state variable „checked” set initially to false - website shows content only when this variable is set to true, what happens after session check or after token/cookie presence check.
But, from what I understand, if I block website until session is checked and no content is shown I lose all static seo power of gatsby. I mean google bots won’t scan my website if theres no content shown initially. Am I correct?
What would be your approach to this problem? Changing from „log in” button (or not showing it at all initially) to usermenu in header looks weird.
In order for SEO to be correct, you can add loading in the menu and login button areas when detect.
But, from what I understand, if I block website until session is
checked and no content is shown I lose all static seo power of gatsby.
I mean google bots won’t scan my website if theres no content shown
initially. Am I correct?
Yes and no. If you block all your website before you check the cookie, yes. However, if you are only blocking the header part to show/hide one button or another, you are not blocking the statically of Gatsby. In addition, keep in mind that Google bots always make various crawls; one the check the "static" content (without JavaScript) and one of them awaiting the JavaScript response/rendering.
In your case, if you are only checking a local variable to decide which component render, you are not losing the SEO power of Gatsby, since you are only rendering (or not) a small piece of code.
In the worst case that the crawler wasn't able to detect that small piece of code, the SEO impact is meaningless, it won't affect the overall performance only to show/hide a component.
For further details about Google's crawlers check the docs.
What would be your approach to this problem? Changing from "log in”
button (or not showing it at all initially) to usermenu in header
looks weird.
I would say the best approach is the best UX response, since the SEO impact is meaningless. It may not be intuitive for a user to see a "Log in" button and once the cookie/reducer is checked change it suddenly to another content. I would prefer to awaiting the variable.
I'm curious what things a developer can do to make the creation of automated tests easier for testers using selenium web driver. The only thing I'm thinking of is using unique IDs for fields, buttons, etc. Can anyone think of any thing else that can be done?
From my experience, this really helps to automate whole process:
Provide unique IDs to at least important buttons (submit form, search buttons...)
Do not use HTTP Basic Authentification. Use normal login instead
Get rid of CAPTCHA fields. At least on test environment.
Provide friendly URLs, so that certain areas of app can be reached immediately
When page is loading, show some load image. Best option is to provide some small element which loads only when whole page is loaded.
Get rid of hover-only menus on page (you have to hover certain element to see other)
I want to show different views based on the user of my application for example if the user is admin he can see all the controls or when it is acting as user he can only see a subset of controls and UI and he can perform the limited action.
One solution that comes to my mind is sending the role information with the page as a JSON but that would require me to have knowledge of the logged in user so, basically I can first check if the user is logged in or not through the cookie? if no I can just load the lightweight version of the login page and after user logs in then I can send a new page altogether with user's profile information embedded in it.
The other approach that I see is that I can bootstrap my angular application and then check the login status and if the login is done, then bring the profile information through a JSON and update the view, but I think it would be slow and error-prone.
I don't know what is best / recommended approach.
First approach seems to be a better approach out of these 2.
Problem with the second approach is you are sending 2 requests to the server - one for login and then 2nd one to get the user role/profile. If you are choosing this approach then you may have few issues depending how are you going to implement it:
If you are updating your UI after login then you will have to decide what should be shown to the user since you don't know the user profile yet. Even if you come up with some minimal privilege UI, there will be another request to get the profile which will kind of refresh the UI again - 2 UI refreshes could be annoying for the user. Not to mention that there 2 requests going which could make your site slow.
If you decide not to update the UI after login but only after you get user profile, still the delay would be more as you will have to wait for response of 2 separate requests. Could be a major issue with slow networks(consider mobile)
If you are using the first approach, you'll get away with above mentioned problems.
I'm just trying out a simple app in the CocoonJS launcher which contains some links that open some external page.
This works fine, but the problem is that I can't identify a way to go back a page (i.e. history back). The launcher app just displays the page in fullscreen, no user controls visible at all. This is troublesome, because when my users tap on an ad, I want them to be able to go back to the game.
Am I missing something or is this simply not supported?
I do not know of any way to display a navigation bar or something similar.
Nevertheless, you can open your external urls via Cocoon.App.openURL(url); which will enable the user to open it via a normal browser where you can navigate back.
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I agree with the solution proposed by Scdev. Also, interstitials or fullscreen ads usually have a dismiss button themselves. I might be misunderstanding something.
Regards,
Iker.
I have one problem with IE7. Let me explain the scenario
I have opened my web based application in IE7 browser in TAB1 by using normal login feature. After successful login, i entered to the application home page and i do with my normal transaction say Trans1. Now i want to open my application again in another tab TAB2 in the same browser window.. what happens IE7 won't allow me to login on my application in the login page, it directly enters to the home page and when i do one transaction say "Trans2" it is going smoothly. Now when i again went to the TAB1 and doing one transaction it is opening the TAB2 page that i opened in TAB2.
It seems IE7 is sharing same session cookie in multiple tabs. Is there a workaround for the same scenario.
Anyone have any solution for this problem.
Appreaciate your help in this regard.
Thanks,
Manoja Swaro
It seems IE7 is sharing same session cookie in multiple tabs. Is there a workaround for the same scenario.
Well no. Cookies are by design shared between all instances of the same browser, whether in multiple tabs or multiple windows. You can only get two separate sessions by using different browsers, like an instance of IE and one of Firefox.
This changes a little in IE8, but in quite a complicated way you probably don't want to rely on. See http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/05/06/session-cookies-sessionstorage-and-ie8.aspx
This is why you should generally not be using cookies/sessions for keeping track of partially-completed transactions; one transaction will always interfere with the other. Better to either:
keep track of all incomplete transaction data in page/form data, like hidden fields
if that's too much data to keep passing back and forth, create an ID for the transaction that is remembered through page data, and store the actual data in the database.
You can also use a unique ID tied to the page to generate more unique cookie names, eg. 'preference.1234=foo' instead of just 'preference=foo', so that each instance will have its own cookies.
Yes. IE shares session/cookie between tabs.
Try to run a new browser (i.e. from Start menu) -- it helped with older versions of IE
and it works with my IE7.
AFAIK This happens with all tabbed browsers (FF for example).
Indeed, this is how all tabbed browsers work. Cookies are shared among all tabs. However they are not shared among multiple instances of the same application, but I doubt this will help you.
This is actually a serious problem for many applications. It is very difficult to keep track of the tabs - which are open, which are closed, when a new tab opens, and when an existing one makes a request.
There is one workaround I have found, but it's pretty messy. The idea is that you have to assign a unique ID to every tab yourself. Then, when a tab performs some actions, this ID has to be posted back to the server. Depending on the architecture of your application, the ID can be passed around in URLs or hidden form fields. If you're doing AJAX, this can make it easier to find a common place to add the ID. ASP.NET also has just one form at all times, so the hidden field is easy to do.
Naturally, on the server side you must check this ID and implement your own "tab sessions" based on it.