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It would be nice to fire Google Analytics events for the main actions: vote, comment, question posted, answer posted, etc. |
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Coming from the perspective of a commercial web publisher, I wouldn't want to record those as impressions because they are not really "pages" in the way we usually view our inventory. They are, however, really meaningful events that are worthy of being tracked somehow. I wonder whether statistics about these events could best be tracked and reported by OSQA, itself? I think that what we need is Middleware (?) that, for every URL view, will log the username and the view, as well as any option. That will allow us to do sophisticated stats and funnel analysis, e.g. what percent of anon users signed up? What percent of signed up users return once a what? What percent of signed up users spend more than five minutes on the site at a time?
(08 May '10, 18:57)
Joseph
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Google Analytics does not track events as impressions. They are displayed in a different report and do not count as a pageview. http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerOverview.html
For me Event Tracking is the natural way to store and analyze events such as 'post a question', 'post an answer', 'flag', etc.
(09 May '10, 07:53)
Oscar ♦
Wow, I had no idea! In that case, I am in favor of this suggestion. Very cool. Thanks!
(09 May '10, 09:02)
rickross ♦♦
I'd like to stress that more useful analytics come from knowing the user performing the action, and whether the user is authenticated or not. Can we measure those with GA?
(09 May '10, 16:54)
Joseph
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Yes, you can do that with Analytics custom variables: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTrackingCustomVariables.html
(10 May '10, 05:08)
Oscar ♦
@Oscar: This seems like a tremendously useful GA integration. Have you completed this integration? If so, I would really appreciate a brief explanation of how I could do that as well.
(31 Dec '11, 17:25)
jac
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