analytics

Multiple Google Analytics Tags on a Page

We have a large network of sites and want to upgrade to the new Google Analytics asynchronous tags. Often, our clients will place their GA tags after ours, and since we have a reset function on ours, they seem to play nice. Is there anything special that needs to be done to place multiple asynchronous tags on a page, like the reset fro...

Generating links for Google Analytics and Omniture

I am trying to build URLs for Google Analytics and Omniture. GA is simple enough, and those URLs can be built using http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55578 Campaign Source: * (referrer: google, citysearch, newsletter4) Campaign Medium: * (marketing medium: cpc, banner, email) Campaign Term: (i...

Poll analytics in Drupal?

I'm trying to track how often a Poll content type is answered as a block in Drupal when it's embedded on a number of pages as a block. For example, if 5 users answer the poll on page A, and six users answer on page B, I need to know those breakdowns, but not their specific answers. I'd planned to simply look in Google Analytics for the ...

How to deal with large data sets for analytics, and varying numbers of columns'?

I'm building an analytics system for a mobile application and have had some difficulty deciding how to store and process large amounts of data. Each row will represent a 'view' (like a web page) and store some fixed attributes, like user agent and date. Additionally, each view may have a varying number of extra attributes, which relate...

Is there a way track the focus on tab with Javascript?

We need to track the EFFECTIVE time on site of our users Most users, when they're done, leave the tab open and move to another tab Time on site it's extremely inaccurate Is there a Javascript Event to track the "loss of focus" of the current tab ? ...

What are good conventions for Google Analytics on Android?

I'm about to implement Google Analytics support in an Android app, but after some googling, the documentation seems delightfully sparse. Are there any useful conventions or advice (i.e. when not to trigger pageviews/events, or something) that a newcomer to GA should know? ...

What are some good ways to store Analytics data in MongoDB?

What are some good ways to store Analytics data using MongoDB for future analysis? I am thinking of doing something like: > db.analytics.insert( { page: 'product', id: 123, date: new Date('Sept 8, 2010'), pageviews: 222, timeOnPage: 5432 } ) > db.analytics.find() { "_id" : ObjectId("4c8e04b1f14d4366465197b8"), "...

Google Analytics not working 100% with Magento

Hi, I need to solve a problem that the e-commerce report on analytics page, is showing 30% less sales than the Magento report. I was wondering where I put the analytics code with the sales transactions? In the success page after the payment? On our e-commerce, we use a third party billing app that makes the user navigate to another p...

java service API analytics & doc libraries?

We have a Java/Spring-based services layer architecture and are exposing some services via RESTful json/xml API (using Spring-mvc). We'd like to add in-process analytics & I'd appreciate a recommendation for an off-the-shelf solution for either (or a confirmation that there aren't any good solutions and we should roll our own) API Analy...

is there a web analytics framework?

Hi, is there a free framework which I can use to develop a web analytics tool? We want to know how many people visit our site, which pages of our sites is the Most Popular and etc. like this: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/tour.html Obviously, we do not need to analytize other sites but only our own site. BTW, we use tomcat ...

Are there any useful libraries/service for creating custom web application-level stats?

I run a website for music students that allows them to stream a variety of content from a number of sources. Our primary 'customers' are really the librarians at the institutions who subscribe to our service, so it's important to them to see the actual usage of the service, but they want more information than simple web analytics are ab...

[SQL] How can I check for a certain value in all aggregated rows?

Suppose I have three tables: user, group and xref, a table that gives them many-to-many RI. I might want to see how groups each user belongs to: select user.user_id, user.user_name, count(*) as group_count from user inner join xref on user.user_id = xref.user_id inner join group on group.group_id = xref....

What Google API do I use to find search popularity

I want to know how many people have searched for a specific term in a specific period of time (say, 1pm-2pm on September 14, 2010). Is there a google API that can return this data? ...

Mathematical library to compare simularities in graphs of data for a high level language (eg. Javascript)?

I'm looking for something that I guess is rather sophisticated and might not exist publicly, but hopefully it does. I basically have a database with lots of items which all have values (y) that correspond to other values (x). Eg. one of these items might look like: x | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 y | 12 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 6 This is just a a rando...

using google analytics to track user-wise information

What is the best option to track user wise analytics? I am looking for google analytics along with per-user reports. some questions: 1) was using custom variables to track the userId and was able to see the report in Visitors -> 'Custom Variable', any way to see the same on the content report. There is an option for 'user defined variab...

Is MongoDB's query or Mongoid's API good for filtering 2000 items from a total of 80,000?

The idea is to do analytics of 30 or 2000 products out of a collection of 80,000 products. Say, if there are 80,000 products, and to get the top products with highest number of pageviews in a category, which can include only 30 or up to 2000 products, so we can either filter out all those products first, and then use map/reduce to find ...

Referer spoofing using an WebBrowser Control in .Net C#

Hi, We are developping a software in c# (WinForm) that use a WebBrowser Control. We would like to spoof referer but it seems very hard to do it well. What we did : We just add "Referer: http://www.ourwebsite.com" in the http header when we use WebBrowser.Navigate(URL, null, null, REFERER); Result : Using this method, on URL, we can de...

JavaScript to PHP visitor trackers

Can anyone explain how javascript trackers (like the code that Google Analytics and Click, etc have you put on your page), work? I'd like to build my own and I'm fine with the PHP side of things, its just getting the data from a remote page with javascript that I'm unsure of. ...

Google Analytics question - tracking somePage.exe pages

If I have my server setup to serve up pages with .exe extension as html content, and I put standard GA tracking code (javascript) onto my page, will GA reject hits to that page, since it's a .exe extension? I am asking because .exe files are traditionally tracked as downloads by tracking tools... ...so has anybody had experience with...

Web log file analysis software to measure search crawlers

I need to analyze the search engine crawling going on in my site. Is there a good tool for this? I've tried AWStats and Sawmill. But both of those give me very limited insight into the crawling. I need to know information like how many unique/distinct webpages in a section of my site was crawled by a specific crawler within a time period...