Prosper - where to put tracking code?

[TripleT]

As per the Prosper recommendations, I put the tracking code right before the </body> tag.

Problem is, my HTML code is 14K. (Is this way over the line? Might be able to shave 1k-ish off of that, but any more and it's altering the site. Course I could gzip it or sth, but I haven't looked into browser compatibility yet.)

So I don't see all clicks in Prosper, even with reporting set to 'all clicks'. I blame this on people clicking the site away before the script has had a chance to run. I also had Piwik and Clickheat scripts on the site before that, so I changed that to have the prosper one first. We'll see how that goes.

But is there a reason the script has to be at the end of the page? If it's in the head tag, will that slow down the rest of the page loading or screw up the stats?

Finally I considered server performance issues (shared on bluehost), but this seems to happen even at very low volume.

 

[errodr]

14K really isn't that large. You sure everything is configured correctly in Prosper202?

 

[TripleT]

yeah, i mean, if i visit the site myself and don't close it, it always registers.

hm i just tried clicking it away asap, ie as soon as i saw something appear, and that one didn't register.

kinda odd that's how it works actually.. as soon as the site gets requested, that's a click and prosper ought to recognize that. but it waits until the site is loaded and the client-side script has submitted all the info. shouldn't this be a two-stage process, so that worst case scenario it at least knows about the click, if not the extra info...

either that, or i'm still doing something wrong.. but i already have 2k clicks that did get registered, and the conversion tracking seems to work as well. wouldn't know what i could have screwed up