Using TShark
Today I realized this blog lost its google analytics (GA) tracking. Ooops, I accidentally erased the javascript that talks to Google Analytics in my blog template. I fixed the template on my blog, and wanted to verify my browser was sending data to GA. It takes the GA UI a while to show you data is coming in, so I decided to use tshark to see if my tracker code is working. Tshark is the command line version of Wireshark, an Ethernet level packet sniffer. Lets see what HTTP GETs occur when I connect to one of my posts: C:\Program Files\Wireshark>tshark.exe | findstr GET Capturing on Microsoft 1) 67.936320 192.168.1.100 -> 64.233.169.191 HTTP GET /2009/07/finding-clr-exceptions-with-visual.html HTTP/1.1 2) 68.211983 192.168.1.100 -> 64.233.169.191 HTTP GET /dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=7821316&zx=defa99ec-5585-4463-a42d-a32bf4868482 HTTP/1.1 3) 68.393167 192.168.1.100 -> 64.233.169.139 HTTP GET /__utm.gif?utmwv=4.5.8&utmn=1895005015&utmhn=ig2600.