So, pretty much we have two options : - Add javascript to all the download links to send tracking data to Google. Also, add additional code to do google tracking within the SDK installer. That would require a new release of the installer, but shouldn't be a big deal to do. - Figure out a way to parse the webserver logs for the single-mirror-url.cgi file. The web server logs are currently split up between two clusters. Each cluster is generating about 3GB worth of logs per day (~250MB zipped up) -- for all the projects (ALL hits to http are stuffed into a single log file per cluster, rotated daily). We would need to figure out a way to parse and present that data. I could do it on occasion, but having an automated way would be even nicer...
What are your thoughts? -Nick On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Lee Burrows <subscripti...@leeburrows.com>wrote: > Couldn't the installer use URLLoader or Loader to access some URL on the > server, triggering a page hit? > > > On 09/02/2013 16:50, Om wrote: > >> I was thinking about this. I wanted to have a hidden html component in the >> Installer that would call a special page which simply calls the js >> function >> on load. This page would be called only from the Installer. >> >> Or, we could have the installer call the functions manually as well. This >> way we can track download start, complete, abort, etc. >> >> But, if we want to track how many people download the installer, the >> source >> and binary kits manually, we will need to track them as custom events. >> >> Thanks, >> Om >> On Feb 9, 2013 6:51 AM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <nicho...@spoon.as> wrote: >> >> I don't think we will be able to use JavaScript to be able to catch all >>> the >>> downloads (or even a large portion of them). Since most of the downloads >>> come from the Installer, we can't depend on people hitting them with >>> JavaScript. Still looking at other ways to see what we can do. I don't >>> think it will be integrated into the Google stats. >>> >>> -Nick >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Om <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Nick, >>>> >>>> Now that we have basic tracking enabled on our site, I would like to >>>> >>> start >>> >>>> tracking the number of times the installer and more importantly the >>>> >>> number >>> >>>> of times the sdk is downloaded. >>>> >>>> I am not sure how to integrate custom javascript with our CMS. Can you >>>> please give me some pointers as to how to do this? >>>> >>>> Here is some literature about GA's custom event tracking [1] >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Om >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> >>>> >>>> https://developers.google.com/**analytics/devguides/**collection/gajs/ >>> **eventTrackerGuide<https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/eventTrackerGuide> >>> >> > > -- > Lee Burrows > ActionScripter > >
