Patent ID: 8560610

Claim:
A network communication method comprising: receiving a stub tag request from a user device, the user device having received source code of a visited webpage associated with a website; followed by determining, from the received stub tag request, a site configuration that matches one or more webpages of the website to multiple data receiver tags assigned to each one of the webpages of the website, the data receiver tags having been assigned to each one of the webpages before receiving the stub tag request, each of the data receiver tags identifying data elements to be collected from the one or more webpages; identifying the visited webpage at least in part from one or more parameters from a network request header; after the determining and identifying steps, constructing a response to the stub tag request, the response including a collector tag including data collection code with instructions for the user device to collect, from the visited webpage, the data elements identified by each of the data receiver tags; and sending the response to the user device.