Better Google Analytics

[digitalpoint]

Google Analytics allows you to do some interesting things beyond just the default tracking, for example...

• Site Speed
• Social Interaction
• Site Search tracking (what people are searching for ON your site)

You can define your OWN social interactions, so in addition to tracking things like Google+, Likes and Twitter actions, you could even track XenForo Likes if you wanted (or Follows or anything else you deem a social interaction). This is from Google Analytics for digitalpoint.com:

I'd be happy to write the code for XF for it all if developers wanted to use it (for the Facebook/Tweet tracking it's more or less just utilizing the callbacks available in their APIs).

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTrackingSocial.html

This is the Twitter/Facebook tracking we use now (Google+ is automatically tracked already)...

// Delay binding by 1 second (Twitter doesn't have twttr object yet).
setTimeout(function() {
try {

// Track Facebook Likes, Unlikes and Shares in Google Analytics
FB.Event.subscribe('edge.create', function(targetUrl) {
_gaq.push(['_trackSocial', 'Facebook', 'Like', targetUrl]);
});
FB.Event.subscribe('edge.remove', function(targetUrl) {
_gaq.push(['_trackSocial', 'Facebook', 'Unlike', targetUrl]);
});

/* Not using Send button

FB.Event.subscribe('message.send', function(targetUrl) {
_gaq.push(['_trackSocial', 'facebook', 'send', targetUrl]);
});
*/

// Track Tweets in Google Analytics
twttr.events.bind('tweet', function(event) {
if (event) {
var targetUrl;
if (event.target && event.target.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
targetUrl = extractParamFromUri(event.target.src, 'url');
}
_gaq.push(['_trackSocial', 'Twitter', 'Tweet', targetUrl]);
}
});
} catch(e) {}
}, 1000);

As a side note, it wouldn't be a bad idea to incorporate the Google Analytics code into a static JS file, where you just pass the profile ID to it. Especially if we start tracking more stuff (no point in bloating pages with a bunch of static analytics tracking code, in my opinion).

 

[Kier]

Sounds good to me

 

[digitalpoint]

Sounds good to me

Me too!

Oh yeah... forgot the extractParamFromUri() function I use for the tweet tracking...

Edit - is there a secret to making tabs work within CODE BBCode?

// Used with the Google Analytics Tweet tracking
function extractParamFromUri(uri, paramName) {
if (!uri) {
return;
}
var uri = uri.split('#')[0];  // Remove anchor.
var parts = uri.split('?');  // Check for query params.
if (parts.length == 1) {
return;
}
var query = decodeURI(parts[1]);

// Find url param.
paramName += '=';
var params = query.split('&');
for (var i = 0, param; param = params[i]; ++i) {
if (param.indexOf(paramName) === 0) {
return unescape(param.split('=')[1]);
}
}
}

 

[Kier]

is there a secret to making tabs work within CODE BBCode?

F*&@£(*&@(&! WYSIWYG editor...

Yeah, I switch to the plain <textarea> editor before pasting (top right gadget on the editor toolbar), and then keep it in that mode until the message is posted.

 

[Walter]

In addition to Google Analytics, please also support the open alternative Piwik.

 

[Alpha1]

One important aspect of Google analytics is top entry & top exit pages. This identifies threads that are receiving the most traffic and also the threads that are turning away a lot of traffic. If moderators get notified about these threads, then they can optimize those threads and lower the bounce rate, convert more influx into members.

 

[Hoffi]

I'd like to see somthing similar to Piwik. Google Analytics is blocked by many users.

 

[digitalpoint]

BTW - got around to rewriting this for XF... In case anyone wants to use it..

Obviously _setAccount and _setDomainName should be set to yours (or if it was part of XF default, passed in as a variable).

// *** Google Analytics ***
	DigitalPoint.Analytics = function() { this.__construct(); };	
	DigitalPoint.Analytics.prototype =
	{
		__construct: function()
		{
			_gaq = [
				['_setAccount', 'UA-12345-1'],
				['_trackPageview'], 
				['_setDomainName', '.yourdomain.com'], 
				['_trackPageLoadTime']
			];

			(function() {
				var ga = document.createElement('script');
				ga.type = 'text/javascript';
				ga.async = true;
				ga.src = '//www.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
				(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(ga);
				}
			)();
			
			$(document).ready(function() {
				// Delay binding by 1 second (Twitter doesn't have twttr object yet).
				setTimeout(function() {
					try {
	
	
						// Track Facebook Likes, Unlikes and Shares in Google Analytics
						FB.Event.subscribe('edge.create', function(targetUrl) {
							_gaq.push(['_trackSocial', 'Facebook', 'Like', targetUrl]);
						});
						FB.Event.subscribe('edge.remove', function(targetUrl) {
							_gaq.push(['_trackSocial', 'Facebook', 'Unlike', targetUrl]);
						});

/* Not using Send button

						FB.Event.subscribe('message.send', function(targetUrl) {
							_gaq.push(['_trackSocial', 'facebook', 'send', targetUrl]);
						});
*/

						// Track Tweets in Google Analytics
						twttr.events.bind('tweet', function(event) {
							if (event) {
								var targetUrl;
								if (event.target && event.target.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
									targetUrl = DigitalPoint._Analytics.get_param(event.target.src, 'url');
								}
								_gaq.push(['_trackSocial', 'Twitter', 'Tweet', targetUrl]);
							}
						});
					} catch(e) {}
				}, 1000);
			});
		},


		get_param: function (uri, paramName)
		{
			if (!uri) {
				return;
			}
			var uri = uri.split('#')[0];  // Remove anchor.
			var parts = uri.split('?');  // Check for query params.
			if (parts.length == 1) {
				return;
			}
			var query = decodeURI(parts[1]);

			// Find url param.
			paramName += '=';
			var params = query.split('&');
			for (var i = 0, param; param = params[i]; ++i) {
				if (param.indexOf(paramName) === 0) {
					return unescape(param.split('=')[1]);
				}
			}
		}
	};

 

[MGSteve]

I'd like to see somthing similar to Piwik. Google Analytics is blocked by many users.

Surely they'll just block Piwik if they're that way inclined anyway?

 

[Hoffi]

Not all. Mostly they don't know Piwik and if its stored on my domain...

 

[Carlos]

If Kier decides to make this a feature, I ask that this be a toggle.

 

[akia]

Do you just swap the standard code for this in the template for it to work

 

[Lone Wolf]

BTW - got around to rewriting this for XF... In case anyone wants to use it..

Obviously _setAccount and _setDomainName should be set to yours (or if it was part of XF default, passed in as a variable).

So for example that would be _setXenforo.com for domain but what is the account value?

 

[digitalpoint]

So for example that would be _setXenforo.com for domain but what is the account value?

Your Analytics account ID.

 

[DRE]

Can you add this to the Resource Manager please? Kind of don't understand how to add this to my site.

 

[Chatwic]

Where do you input this code to work with your XF?

 

[digitalpoint]

Can you add this to the Resource Manager please? Kind of don't understand how to add this to my site.

Finally did... wasn't possible without the Template Modifiation system in 1.2... so if you are running 1.2 or higher, it should work:

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/better-analytics.2288/

 

[DRE]

Finally did... wasn't possible without the Template Modifiation system in 1.2... so if you are running 1.2 or higher, it should work:

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/better-analytics.2288/

Yeah I saw it and downloaded it. Is this the same stuff as this? http://xenforo.com/community/threads/enhanced-link-attribution-in-google-analytics.58154/

 

[digitalpoint]

Nope, that's something totally different.

 

[Maestro2k5]

Where can I integrate this code with?

_gaq.push(['_gat._anonymizeIp']);