Adperium view tracker (5)
Anyone know of an existing software or plugin (prosper) that I can use with the view tracker on adperium? I have cpvlab to track domain IDs but I have no idea what I can use for the view tracker. It calls a url each time a banner receives an impression and sends the domain ID with it. I need that to be able to figure out the CTR for each domain ID.
Any ideas?
bumpity bump
can someone help?
I don't think there is a way to do it on P202 or CPVLab.
Only way would be to use an adserver like openx to count impressions.
The problem with view tracking is that the traffic really pounds your server. We setup a really simple script which just logs each view in to a .csv file. Then we manually pulled the CSV file and compared the results to our tracking platform (so we could estimate CTR).
Every time we used this script, it killed our server!
But feel free to give it a go:
Upload the attached files to the root of your domain. Make sure the data folder is writable (CHMOD 755 or 777)
Set your view tracking url in Adperium to:
http://www.domain.com/pixel.png?pub=${PUBLISHERID}&vurl=${VURLID}
Wait a few mins for your server to crash 
Then you can see the reports in http://www.domain.com/pixel_tracker/data
One way you could improve this: don't write to disk every time.
Instead, write to RAM using something like Redis, then dump the results to disk once an hour or so.
If you want to get even harder-core than that, set up a new VPS just for your view tracking, then call that every time you get a view. That way you don't risk crashing your LP server. (At that point, you're basically running a simple ad server like bbrock32 suggests).
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