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[Monotone-devel] [offtopic] Google Analytics for monotone's website
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Thomas Keller |
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[Monotone-devel] [offtopic] Google Analytics for monotone's website |
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Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:00:08 +0100 |
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Hi all!
I recently had some time to play with Google Analytics which is a free
statistics service with a lot of cool features [0] - so I wonder if we
want this for our web pages as well?
Since it is a remote service it cannot not take its information from the
server logs, but uses a tiny Javascript snippet which needs to be
embedded on each web page that should be tracked. In case we want to do
that, it would certainly be useful to have some SSI similar technique
setup server-side to automatically add this snippet to any text/html
content.
There are two downsides, though: The first is that only HTML contents
can be tracked, but not individually downloaded files, since Google only
notices those contents from which the Javascript code is executed, so
afaik its not possible to generate download statistics through that [1].
The other downside is that the statistics are not publically viewable by
everybody unless he or she is added to the account either as
"administator" (full access) or "user" (read-only). The user has to give
an email for which a Google account is registered to one of the other
administrators to be added.
Now I can probably set this thing up within a few, so its more a
question now if people want this setup or not.
Thomas.
[0] http://www.google.com/analytics/features.html
[1] I think there are better ways to track these things anyways, f.e.
for guitone I've created a little count script which takes a
parametricized URL and therefor can be used to target individual referer
linkage - the stats then look like this:
http://guitone.thomaskeller.biz/g/stats
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