analytics

Google Analytics is counting less than half the number of visitors to website

Google Analytics confuses me. I have always had a feeling that the Google Analytics visitor count for my eCommerce website was too low. Today I took a closer look. Last weekend there were about 8 orders (by different customers) on the website on Saturday and 9 on Sunday. Google Analytics however shows only 3 visitors on both Saturday a...

GData Java Client not working because Google redirects to localized site

I'm following the documentation at Google Analytics Data API - Java and am getting the RedirectRequiredException exception, because Google is redirecting me to a local version of the site (www.google.si). The code: AnalyticsService as = new AnalyticsService("me-myapp-1.0"); as.setUserCredentials(username, password); AccountFeed ac...

How to force every page to load a certain javascript file?

I've created a pretty basic system here at work that does what Google analytics does (extremely simplistic in comparison) and it works quite well, but like Google Analytics it requires each page to reference a JavaScript file. Is there any way to make all of our pages that are served from IIS reference this Javascript file? I would like ...

What is the best way to add google analytics tracking for specific elements on the page?

All important elements on my page has ID attribute set. I want to track if visitors are really using (clicking) those elements and I'm not sure which one of those 3 ways is the best: I - add onclick="track..." at the page generate time II - add onClick handler after ondomready for each element III - add only one onClick handler for whol...

What can image only web analytics track?

I know that image only web analytics can track visits, but is that all it can track? Can it track unique visitors or anything more than plain visits? Let's say I'm a third party trying to put html only analytics on a site like, say, myspace. What exactly would I be able to track? Any help is greatly appreciated! ...

Google Analytics executing in a dynamically created modal window

I am using JavaScript to create a modal window when a user either clicks a link or submits a form. The modal window holds either a form if they click a link or a thank you page when a user submits a sign up form. The modal window is populated using innerHTML. The issue I am having is that these modal windows have Google Analytic tags in...

Analytics for windows applications

Are there any .net frameworks for collecting data similar to Google analytics, for example to know home many people use a specific feature, how many people launch the app, the only solution that i have found is EQATEC Analytics which is pretty good, but doesn't show which feather or which versions of the app are being used, based on the ...

What are the most common reasons for requests without referrer?

I have a service with a large share of requests with an empty value for HTTP_REFERER. I'd like to interpret this correctly and wonder about the most common reasons for that. I understand that HTTP_REFERER is an optional header field, but most browsers with default setting seem to send them. Common reasons I have found so far: proxie...

Oracle SQL Query (Analytics?)

I am trying to build a query such that some column are built up from a previous matching row. For example with the following data: CREATE TABLE TEST (SEQ NUMBER, LVL NUMBER, DESCR VARCHAR2(10)); INSERT INTO TEST VALUES (1, 1, 'ONE'); INSERT INTO TEST VALUES (2, 2, 'TWO1'); INSERT INTO TEST VALUES (3, 2, 'TWO2'); INSERT INTO TEST VALUES...

Google analytics, privacy and latency

Hi, I'm considering putting the Google Analytics tracker on my blog to get better stats (right now I use Summary.net, which is fast but occasionally of questionable accuracy, though way better than awstats). At any rate I have 2 big concerns and though I should ask the community here for opinions: Privacy. In the past I've gone so far...

Oracle Analytic Question

Given a function zipdistance(zipfrom,zipto) which calculates the distance (in miles) between two zip codes and the following tables: create table zips_required( zip varchar2(5) ); create table zips_available( zip varchar2(5), locations number(100) ); How can I construct a query that will return to me each zip code from the z...

How to measure and collect loading speed data of a website across the globe?

I have used tools such as YSlow to measure the loading speed of our website. Since I am located in Germany, our customers however are mostly in Asia (and our server in the US), I would like to measure the 'real' loading speed on the customer side. Anyone has a hint on how this could be accomplished? ...

No data in Simple SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Cube (Analytics Accelerator for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0)

I installed, deployed & processed the cube on my CRM system as discussed in the documentation. At no point in this process do I receive any error. From within the Visual Studio Microsoft CRM MSCRM data source view, I can open the tables & run the queries to see data. The problem arises when I try to browse the cube. I have plenty of d...

Tracking user actions - analytics for applications

I'm closing in on finishing a Windows Desktop Gadget that downloads plugins from my web server. I'm wondering how I can track the use of these plugins for reporting purposes like seeing which plugins are popular in which countries, how many times a plugin is used per day/month/week and other stuff like that. Logging this on every user ...

People's experience of Correlation Databases, i.e. I-lluminate?

While looking at ways to improve processes for an in-house analytics team, the "Correlation database" approach used by i-lluminate came up. Documentation and real-world stories on the platform seem to be scarce, and I was just wondering if people out there had any first-hand experience with it? the following are requirements of partic...

Exclude Xenu's Link Sleuth from Google Analytics

I've just added the Google Analytics tracking to my website (cca 350 static HTML pages). I realized that I run Xenu's Link Sleuth to check my links pretty often, nearly after each change in my HTML files. I guess such checking will be counted as regular accesses to my website by Google Analytics. I would like to exclude the Xenu checkin...

What is the best graphing/charting toolset to use for creating Google Analytics type graphs?

Given a Rails application on the server, what is the best charting/graphing solution for displaying dynamic, database driven charts/graph on a web page such as those available in Google Analytics. An optimal solution would include components that can speak JSON back-and-forth with the Rails application via AJAX. Thanks! ...

Oracle Analytics inside Cursor

Hello Oracle Experts, I'm wondering why my "analytics" line inside a "cursor" in Oracle Forms generates an error. This is how it's written: CURSOR READ_C1_REC IS SELECT DISTINCT MACH, TCODE, COUNT(ALL TRANS_NO) OVER (PARTITION BY MACH, TCODE ORDER BY MACH, TCODE) TOTALPERMACHPERTCODE FROM ( SELECT .....

Is there a way to check if a browser has the Alexa toolbar installed?

Is there a way to check if a browser of a visitor has the Alexa toolbar installed? This might probably be done via JavaScript. Doing this would give us the possibility to somewhat compensate for the bias of the Alexa rating of a site. See e.g. Alexa Toolbar and the Problem of Experiment Design Especially outside of the USA the Alexa to...

Best Mobile Application Analytics Package?

I'm developing on Android at the moment and want to know the best mobile app analytics for android and iPhone. I only need usage stats at the moment. ...