GDPR and disabling Sitecore Tracker lead to Exception in Sitecore.Analytics.Media.MediaRequestEventHandler.OnMediaRequest
April 8, 2024
As many Europe-based businesses we had to comply with GDPR legislation, which requires us to not track analytical data from visitors without their consent. When it comes to Sitecore 8.x, this requires to implicitly stop the Sitecore Tracker from initializing unless the corresponding Conseny Cookie has been accepted: So, problem solved right? Well, not exactly, […]
Sitecore Analytics: Custom Dimensions and Segments
August 17, 2017
In Sitecore Analytics, a Dimension represents a set of key/values pair which is updated daily. Each entry contains, for each key, a class called SegmentMetricsValue that contains the following fields: Visits, a custom Value, Bounces, Conversions, Time on Site, Page Views, and Count. Each of those can be arbitrarily assigned, and the method that calculates […]