| 摘要 |
Tools and techniques are provided to allow partners (460) of analytics providers (462) and others who use web-beacons (414) to submit (302) web-beacon plug-ins (43S) for scrutiny (104), and for the plug-in to either be refused (128) or else to be certified (122) for use in a core JavaScript file (430) or similar component. Analytics providers and others may also write web- beacon plug-ins. Certified plug-ins are executed (124) in response to page loads, visitor clicks, and other visitor and programmatic actions at a website (426) that has been tagged by the analytics provider's web-beacon, without requiring re-tagging of the website with a separate web-beacon for the partner. This allows the partner to obtain analytics data by piggybacking on the analytics provider, without re-tagging, and without compromising the availability and accuracy of the analytics data already being gathered. To be certified (122), web-beacon plug- ins must satisfy specific criteria (466) as to their size, behavior, namespace, and the like. |
