Patent ID: 8234370
Filing Date: 2012-07-31
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for determining web analytics information, said method comprising: loading a target page in a web browser upon receiving a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request for a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the target page; determining that the HTTP request further comprises a URL of a referring page, wherein said referring page comprises a hypertext link representing the URL of the target page, and wherein said hyper text link had been activated by a mouse click such that the target page was loaded in said loading; a processor of a computer system calculating web analytics data comprising a (X, Y) position of a mouse cursor within the target page, a tuple (width, height) indicating 2-dimensional size of the target page, and the URL of the referring page; and transmitting the calculated web analytics data to a web analytics server executing on another computer system coupled to the computer system through a communication network such that the transmitted web analytics data are utilized to generate said web analytics information that describes properties of hyperlink positions in the referring page.