9 posts tagged “web analytics”

According to my google analytics web statistics Firefox 3 is already the second most popular version (@ 20%) of Firefox for visitors one of my sites !

POS    Version  Visits    %
1.     2.0.0.14       29     60.42%    
2.     3.0               9     18.75%
3.     1.5.0.9         3     6.25%
4.     2.0.0.11       3     6.25%
5.     2.0.0.12       2     4.17%
6.     2.0.0.3        1     2.08%
7.     2.0.0.8        1     2.08%

Why would Google accept / approve / sponsor Tor for the Google Summer of Code 2008 ?

Tor is an organisation that "helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy" ie by attempting to subvert all Web Analytics tools including Google Analytics and apparently Tor also breaks Google Search itself ! Surely Googles primary product ?

Google Analytics have released a NEW version of their tracking javascript code (ga.js) so create the following two javascript files:

googanala.js
var gaJsHost = ( ("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www." ) ;

document.write(
                unescape(
                        "%3C" +
                        "script type='text/javascript' " + "src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' " +
                        "%3E" +

                        "%3C" +
                        "/script" +
                        "%3E"
                )
        );

googanalb.js
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-999999-9");
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();

and include the following two lines in your footer

script type="text/javascript" src="googanala.js" /script
script type="text/javascript" src="googanalb.js" /script

with angle brackets added back in !

ClickHeat PHP web page heat map

http://sourceforge.net/projects/clickheat/
http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/heatmap.html

I've just discovered that "Google Analytics" gives you the "Tracking Not Installed" error if you using  HTTP  redirects
[code]
<?php header( 'location: login.php' ) ; ?>
[/code]

so you must (temporarily ?) rewrite you code so that the google script is included DIRECTLY in the first page on your website
[code]
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "UA-747268-6";
urchinTracker();
</script>
[/code]

How to track outbound links
https://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=27246


a href="http://www.example.co.uk" onClick="javascript:urchinTracker('/outgoing/example_co.uk');"


How to track file downloads
https://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=27242&ctx=sibling


a href="http://www.example.co.uk/files/map.pdf"
onClick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/downloads/map');"




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