analytics

Automating the adding of a website profile via google APIs

I was poking around Google's analytics API docs to see if there is a method that allows the adding of website profiles. Either by using a email/password or session or one time token. Has anyone seen anything? ...

When is Google Analytics not good enough?

I'm trying to determine why an enterprise wouldn't want to use Google Analytics. Here are the main reasons I've seen mentioned: Inability to track clients that have Javascript disabled. Lack of ownership of the statistics - Google owns the data. Most of the web clients with Javascript disabled will probably be bots/spiders. This ...

Mobile website analytics solution

I have my website's mobile version. I need get statistics about users visiting my mob website, unique visits, page views and so on. I'm looking for tool, similar like Google Analytics, but for mobile websites. Google Analytics is not the solution, because it is based on JavaScript. Most mobile device browsers doesn't support JavaScript. ...

Google Analytics - Multiple Trackers for Several Accounts?

Maybe I'm going about this wrong, but I'm hoping I can get some insight. I develop for multiple clients nationwide. I track many of my sites using my personal/development Analytics account that tracks all the domains/profiles I work on. However, I now have marketing folks jumping into the fray, all wanting their own GA trackers install...

Get useful stats from IIS log files

Does anyone know of a free tool that I can use to get website statistics from my IIS log files? ...

Really Custom Reporting in Google Analytics

I have a client who is currently using WebTrends for their analytics, and is considering making a move to Google Analytics. However, from what I can tell, there is very little custom reporting available in GA. For example, if a user was logged into the system, and I wanted to be able to do reporting on people with blue eyes, brown hair...

Easy way to log errors, etc to remote central location from .NET Compact Framework

Hi, I am looking for a very simple method for logging application errors and certain application metrics to a central remote location / server. I'm thinking it will need to be something like Web Services or some similar technology. One concern I have is device loses connectivity. I'd like to have something that stores the logs locally...

Is there a C++ or Qt library available to measure feature use of an application

I would like to be able to measure the features in our application that are being used. For example how much certain windows are opened, certain controls are clicked. I can imagine a tool that measures this and sends a report to a web server, that can further process it to create meaningful data from it ...

How to track Google Analytics Events in Server Side asp.net?

Hello, Is there a way to track Google Analytics Events from Server Side in ASP.NET, the requirement is the the Event should be tracked on button click after some functionalities are executed on Serverside. ? OnClientClick of button, we cannot fulfill this requirement completely as some time serverside functionalities can fail but the ev...

Real Time Analytics Reporting

We are gathering a large amount of custom analytics data. We will be using Hadoop for running batch processes on the analytics. What real time reporting tool/datastore might we consider for storing and generating customized real time web based (as in displayed in a web page not web analytics) reporting. We are considering the rrdtool....

Is there an analytics tool for webOS apps?

I need to track individual page views on my webOS app, something akin to Google Analytics. I understand that tracking on web apps may be barebones, but anything is better than nothing. Does anyone know of an analytics tool for webOS, or one that is compatible? The nice to haves are: support for offline mode, minimal use of bandwidth, an...

Using JavaScript or jQuery to track views of an actual HTML element (vs. just page loads)

My current project requires (if possible) tracking actual views of a JavaScript widget, so that we can compare/control this data against the total number of pageviews reported by our Analytics software (Clicky and/or Google Analytics). Basically, we're selling this widget to a client and want to be able to provide solid metrics to demon...

DoubleClick/YieldManager/Ad.com Tracking Pixels - What exactly do they track?

Our marketing team has placed a lot of these tracking pixels on our site. Most of them just make a simple HTTP GET to a URL, usually by using a IMG tag, but some document.write in an iframe/script node as well. What I would like to know, is what exactly these track. Source IP? What if you are behind a proxy? ...

Web Analytics & Stats

Hi Guys, We want to add tracking statistics to a web application we are building but are pretty unsure of how to go about it. (i.e. clicks, pageviews, unique visits etc) Does anyone have any articles on the best way to go about incorporating tracking data into an application ? i.e. javascript tracking or IIS etc ? We want to add track...

How to get information form link clicks?

I am wondering how it is possible to get information from link clicks. For example, a user is logged in and clicks a link. Is it possible to record that information? Number of links clicked, which ones, etc... things like that. I have no idea how to do this. Any ideas / links to information? ...

Rails - Tracking Referrals to Conversions

We just launched and are looking to better understand where the users who are converting to registered users are actually coming from. We can see our traffic sources and referrals via Google Analytics and our other web statistics programs, but in volume, it's difficult to tie these specifically to which users in our database have conver...

Piwik Web Analytics - Anyone with experience of it?

I'm considering trying to get more granular analytics for my sites than the free plan on my current provider, Clicky, provides. Piwik looks like a strong contender in the analytics space (and I'm surprised I haven't heard about it before) but I want to be sure I'm not throwing the baby out with the bathwater by swapping to it. Does any...

Google Analytics on Flex IFrames

So I would like to include pageTracker code in the iFrames that is being called. However the iFrames in this case are called from Flex. We are building a pop up and calling the iframes within the pop up. In this scenario, what is the best way to include the pageTracker code to track and trasnfer the visitor and campaign cookies from on...

Exposing variables to Google Analytics

Hi guys, I am trying to find out whether I can expose my own variables to GA? I want to expose things such as a user's username or more importantly the type of user that logged in. For me this is an important component for the following scenario: I want to know what type of users log in the most over a period of time. What features do...

SQL query challenge

So here's yet another 'write a query to X' challenge. I'm monitoring a number of networked vending machines. Each machine has a number of parts, e.g. bank note acceptor, coin system, printer and so on. Problems with machine parts are logged in table, let's call it 'faults', which looks something like this (irrelevant fields omitted): ...