Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers
by James J. Townsend, Dmitri Riz, Deon Schaffer
Tracking Anonymous Users
While registered users are easier to track, the behavior of anonymous users is no less important to the owners of a site. After all, for a public commerce site, registered users start as anonymous users.
Commerce Server tracks both anonymous and authenticated users. During each session, a unique identifier is assigned to the user that persists during the course of the session so the behavior of the user during the session can be tracked. If you enable cookies, you can keep track of each anonymous user from one session to the next. In this way, for example, you can determine how many visits to the site the user made before completing her first purchase.
Global variables are used to store information about the user. These ...
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