analytics

Is there an API that allows you to find out how many sites link to yours?

I know google has things like linkto:yourdomain.com and Alexa is around, but there's nothing that I can query and get the number of sites that link to me. Anyone know of such a thing, other than using Google or another search engine and scraping the HTML results? ...

Google Analytics Access with C#

Hello, I know that there is no official API for Google Analytics but maybe someone has figured out a way to access Google Analytics Reports with C#? Thank you in advance! ...

What web log file analyzer do you recommend

I am looking into getting a log file analysis tool for multiple sites. All the sites currently run Google analytics, however I have noticed that the stats that this provides can be a bit off (lower numbers than log files report etc etc). It needn't be expensive although expensive tools will be considered. It needs to be scriptable so ...

Call Visitors web stat program from PHP

I've been looking into different web statistics programs for my site, and one promising one is Visitors. Unfortunately, it's a C program and I don't know how to call it from the web server. I've tried using PHP's shell_exec, but my web host (NFSN) has PHP's safe mode on and it's giving me an error message. Is there a way to execute the ...

How can I find what search terms (if any) brought a user to my site?

I want to create dynamic content based on this. I know it's somewhere, as web analytics engines can get this data to determine how people got to your site (referrer, search terms used, etc.), but I don't know how to get at it myself. ...

Looking for tools to analyze email data

I made a write-up about how to analyze your gmail account data with ruby. Then on SlashDot, someone told me about mail-trends. Does anyone have other tools to suggest ? ...

Elegant way to determine total size of website?

is there an elegant way to determine the size of data downloaded from a website -- bearing in mind that not all requests will go to the same domain that you originally visited and that other browsers may in the background be polling at the same time. Ideally i'd like to look at the size of each individual page -- or for a Flash site the ...

Best practice: How to track outbound links?

How do you track outbound links for your web sites, since the request is logged on the destination server, not yours? What method works best for an HTML site, a PHP or ASP.NET site, a template site, or a framework-based site? ...

Can I get statistics on RSS readership?

Is there any way to get numbers on how many people are reading an RSS feed? My understanding of the way feed readers work (e.g. Google Reader) is that they check the feed periodically, cache it, and serve the cached copy to whoever asks for it until it's refreshed - which would imply that there's no way to get reliable numbers on readers...

google analytics tracking in iframe feeding to different partners

our partners sites leverages our iframes in their own websites. I was wondering if there is a way to track the analytics on the iframes. The problem is, if we also utilize these iframes on our own website, how do i avoid duplicate tracking where a visit is counted on our domain's analytics and also counted again in iframes? is there a ...

Is there a faster alternative to Google Analytics?

I like to keep my websites extremely light and fast, but of course I need some kind of user tracking and analytics. It seems like Google Analytics always takes significant enough processing time that I'd like to replace it with something faster (and/or hosted locally), perhaps having less features. I really only care about these metr...

Analyzing web application usage and user patterns using DB/application server logs?

I assume that most of the analyzing and tracking is done based on the data gathered from browser actions like page requests. Tools like AWStats, Google Analytics and Omniture take place in this. But there is also good amount of data available in databases or service level logs. For example GWT based application might be a bit tricky to ...

SharePoint 2007 Analytics Package.

While the built-in analytics of MOSS2007 are nice to have - they are inadequate at the same time. Any ideas where I can look for a more comprehensive package? Am I missing something? Thanks, Carl ...

Open Source Project Analytics Sites?

I have seen at least one site in the past that had analytics on Open Source projects, describing lines of code, hours worked, number of check-ins, all sorts of stuff. Does anyone know of any of those sites? ...

Is there a convenient way to do analytics of a servlet?

Traditional logfile analytics tools (awstats, statcounter) or general web analytics (google analytics, yahoo web analytics) are not suitable for analyzing traffic on servlets. Is there a good alternative to log messages using a logging framework (log4j for example) and to write a custom analytics software for these? ...

Are there any free and open-source server-side analytics engines?

If you have any experiences with them, what are your thoughts on them as well? ...

Looking for real-time web server analytics package

I am the programmer for the Education department at a county hospital. I would like to be able to see some real-time stats on an IIS6 web server that is only accessible in-house. I'm looking for something similar to what 1and1.com provides for their customers (if you're familiar with what they offer). I have a Classic ASP/VBScript based...

How to decode google gclids

Now, I realise the initial response to this is likely to be "you can't" or "use analytics", but I'll continue in the hope that someone has more insight than that. Google adwords with "autotagging" appends a "gclid" (presumably "google click id") to link that sends you to the advertised site. It appears in the web log since it's a query ...

does Google analytics make a major effect on time to download a static web page?

Hi, I understand that by simply adding a script to the end of the body tag of a html document one makes it processable by Google analytics. My question is, is this likely to have much effect on performance (download time and server load)? Let's assume a static page of say 100k served by IIS. Thanks. ...

Any difference between "current row" and "0 preceding/following" in windowing clause of Oracle analytic functions?

Some of Oracle's analytic functions allow for a windowing clause to specify a subset of the current partition, using keywords like "unbounded preceding/following", "current row", or "value_expr preceding/following" where value_expr is a physical or logical offset from the current row or value (depending on whether you have specified ROW ...