How can you modify the URL for the current page that gets passed to Google Analytics? (I need to strip the extensions from certain pages because for different cases a page can be requested with or without it and GA sees this as two different pages.) For example, if the page URL is http://mysite/cake/ilikecake.html, how can I pass t...
I've been trying to collect analytics for my website and realized that Google analytics was not setup to capture data for visitors to www.example.com (it was only setup for example.com). I noticed that many sites will redirect me to www.example.com when I type only example.com. However, stackoverflow does exactly the opposite (redirects ...
I know the Google Search Appliance has access to this information (as this factors into the PageRank Algorithm), but is there a way to export this information from the crawler appliance? External tools won't work because a significant portion of the content is for a corporate intranet. ...
Hi Does anybody know if there is a way to understand what users are doing on my web page? I can see overall stats with Google Analytics but I can't really understand what users are looking at, if they are reading my content, etc. Does anybody know if there is a free or paid service that I could use? Dani ...
On another thread I saw a answer to a sql problem using Oracle's analytics. Is there a equivalent in PostgreSQL or generic SQL? ...
Can any one recommend any good primer books / resources on business intelligence and reporting using the Microsoft stack? As a business we currently use crude static Crystal Reports for our reporting needs but looking to overhaul it with a proper scalable BI stack that allows internal and customer facing reporting, analytics and KPIs....
I'm trying to see the path my users take when clicking thru a web app I have. I've got logs, awstats and webalizer on the server-side, and I'm looking to install some sort of analytical product. I don't see any breadcrumb/click path data in my log files. Am I missing it? Barring that, what analytical products (Yahoo, Google, etc) can do ...
Google Analytics tracks 'Time On Site'. How would you do that effectively? Does it actually track when the user closes the browser or navigates away? Thoughts? ...
I'm soon to launch a site, and would like to hear your opinions and experiences with Analytics Tools. There are many analytics solutions available, and they all vary in price, accuracy and flexibility. In your opinion, what's the best analytics solution, and why? ...
Does anyone know how to setup Google Analytics to filter yourself out if you're visiting the site from a dynamic IP address? I don't want to include myself in my stats from home use where I have a dynamic IP address via Verizon FiOS. ...
When you look at the Business Intelligence arena, there are many big players, including SAS. In my time in this space I am noticing more big players moving to a more user friendly tool that doesn't require coding skill sets. Also, I am aware that SAS is trying to protect their market share by introducing tools that are more point and c...
I have a plug-in that I am distributing via an Eclipse update site. I want to track how many times it is being downloaded, and preferably by whom. For regular pages on my site, I can use Google analytics. However, Eclipse doesn't use any HTMLs when going for update sites. Is there any way to do this when I don't have access to the host...
The company I work for creates applications for the Blackberry platform. We've been working on a proprietary "analytics system" that allows us to embed code within our applications and have the applications report back some stats to our central servers every time they're run. Currently, the system works ok; however it's only in beta wit...
Google announced the Analytics Data Export API some days ago, thereby making it much easier to get analytics data for a site. The API debuted with Java and Javascript clients, but no direct .Net support (other than going straight for the XML). It seems the API is similar to the other Google Data APIs though, and there's a .Net client for...
Hello, I was wondering, I want to plant a JS tracking code (analytics) in a few websites to track their traffic. But I don't want that when viewing the site's source code people will be able to see that I've embedded the JS tracking code there. Is it possible? Maybe by using an Apache/PHP trick? Thanks, Roy. ...
I'd like to run a query like the one below against an Oracle 9i database from Java (an example table structure and example data are below). SELECT deptno , SUBSTR(comma_list, 2) comma_list FROM (SELECT deptno , SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH(ename, ',') comma_list , row_number , row_count ...
So here's my challenge. I have a spreadsheet that looks like this: prod_id | pack | value | durable | feat | ease | grade | # of ratings 1 75 85 99 90 90 88 1 2 90 95 81 86 87 88 9 3 87 86 80 85 82 84 37 4 92 ...
Hey, I'm beginning to work on mailing-list software we use internally (EDIT: though we send emails externally as well, so we can't enforce policy on mail clients). Is there any way to track whether, when I send an email to a particular user, that email has been opened as opposed to being marked as junk or being deleted without being op...
If you deploy an application through the iTunes app store, what usage information do you get from Apple? Do you only get the number of downloads/sales, and does this differ for free vs. paid apps? Do you get any information regarding how often it is used, crash logs, demographics info, etc? Is the only way to build hooks to your own s...
Is there a comparative analysis available for Mint and Google Analytics which can help me decide which one to implement in my situation? ...