Hi guys, I am trying to come up with a way to measure how long a user has been on a page in my ASP.NET application. I am storing the userid, pagename, pageenteredtime and pagelefttime in a database. Each record has its own unique id as well, called featureuselogid. At the moment, I can track when a user comes into the page with the pa...
As far as I know all popular web browsers execute the onclick attribute of an anchor link first, then follow the path specified by the href attribute. The problem here is that the onclick attribute only gets called when clicking with the left mousebutton (without pressing ctrl or shift for a new tab or window) or when pressing enter on ...
Google Analytics is nice, but it is for websites. If I have a console application how can I track its usage worldwide? Can i just download an transparent.gif file from the analytics service provider? What are your thoughts on such analytics? ...
Hypothetically, tets say someone tells you to to expect X (like 100,000 or something) number of unique visitors per day as a result of a successful marketing campaing. How does that translate to peak requests/second? Peak simultaneous requests? Obviously this depends on many factors, such as typical number of pages requested per user...
I'm creating an HTML/JavaScript widget to be used on third-party sites. This widget is generated by a <script> that our customers will insert on their page. The <script> creates an <iframe> in the customer's domain, and then creates and inserts all of that <iframe>'s content using JavaScript. It's important that this <iframe> contain Cl...
Has anyone used medialets to track iPhone app usage ? Their documentation leaves a lot to be desired.. ...
I'm trying to program some user-behavior-monitoring functionality and it's a bit tricky. For example how do you go about recording a user's clicking path to be used in future analysis? Am I trying to reinvent the wheel? is it easy? is it harder than what I'm thinking? ...
I have an overlay with form (just a radio button group with 3 buttons and a submit button) that, on submit, uses jQuery to open a specific file (a PDF) in a new tab and then close the overlay. The file depends on which button was selected. The problem: the form doesn't actually submit so I don't know how to track submissions, and the cli...
I'm brand new at Python and I'm trying to write an extension to an app that imports GA information and parses it into MySQL. There is a shamfully sparse amount of infomation on the topic. The Google Docs only seem to have examples in JS and Java... ...I have gotten to the point where my user can authenticate into GA using SubAuth. That...
So I have this Omniture object. It's called s. s Inside s, we keep track of a bunch of information, inside "props" and "eVariables". s.prop5 = 'foo' s.prop22 = 'baz' s.var6 = 'bar' Which prop variables and which evars we choose to assign, depends on which page we're tracking. For example, on the homepage, we may wish to track p...
Google recommends to put the analytics code just before the <body> tag. I'm trying to integrate ecommerce in my site and it'd be easier to call pageTracker._addTrans from other places than the footer. Will it be ok if I change ... <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." ...
I have some JavaScript from a 3rd party vendor that is initiating an image request. I would like to figure out the URI of this image request. I can load the page in my browser, and then monitor "Live HTTP Headers" or "Tamper Data" in order to figure out the image request URI, but I would prefer to create a command line process to do thi...
I am looking to roll my own simple web stats script. The only major obstacle on the road, as far as I can see, is telling human visitors apart from bots. I would like to have a solution for that which I don't need to maintain on a regular basis (i.e. I don't want to update text files with bot-related User-agents). Is there any open s...
I'm planning a data warehouse migration to SQL Server 2008, and trying to think of ways to replicate the LAG, LEAD, FIRST_VALUE and LAST_VALUE analytic functions from Oracle in SQL Server 2008. They are not included in SQL Server 2008, although the basic machinery for windowed analytic functions is (e.g. ROW_NUMBER, RANK and DENSE_RANK a...
Hi, I have a rails-based restful server-side api. I want to know what services are called the most, their response time, etc. So this is sort of web analytics, but it's for server-side operation. Is there any free service out there that can help out( google analytics is a good analogy)? ...
Can AdMob be used just for iPhone app statistics/analytics or is it's sole purpose to add advertisements in the app? I want to add a statistics package to my app and track it's usage, and since Google bought AdMob I thought I should give it a try. But I don't want to display ads in my app. Is there any other good and free stats service,...
Hi, I'm going to be running some large scale usability tests of my software for a science project. We have a lab of about 30 computers running Windows XP. Our application is written in Python and PyGTK. We want to be able to collect the following without staff intervention (automatically on our application start): A recording of the...
Superfeedr is a feed-parsing on demand service. We want to provide analytics to our users and we're investigating waht would be the best strategy to do so. In a nutshell, we want to track the number of operations (events, like : new entry in a given feed) in our system as well as agregated data (number of subscriber for feed). Of cours...
Hey there, My client has asked me to implement GA ecommerce code in their ecommerce website. So I added the code to the success page. I just purchased an item from the site, and the following is the code that was generated. I have already checked the settings of the site in GA and the site is set as a Ecommerce site. Can anybody see any...
Hi Guys! I want to create a 'google analytics' type application for the web - i.e. a web-based tool to do some reporting and graphing for my database. The problem is that the database is HUGE, so I can't do the queries in real time because they will take too long and the tool will be unresponsive. How can I use a cron job to help me...