We can use the same tracking code that the OO came up with for those download links. Do you want to work on making the changes needed for the SDK installer? I would use this framework : https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/other/flashTrackingSetupFlex (I've used that in quite a few of project I've developed. You just send it the fake url that we will track.)
As far as option #2. There is no dependence on Infra... Only on us to download the logs and process them. I'll probably end up grabbing them since Dec when we released 4.9 just to see how many downloads we've had so far. -Nick On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Om <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 9, 2013 9:26 AM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <nicho...@spoon.as> wrote: > > > > 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. > > I think this is the best option. This way, we have more control. > > > - 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... > > > > Sounds like a bit of a hassle to me. Moreover, I would like to reduce the > dependency in Infra as much as possible. > How would this work for the source and manual binary downloads? > > Thanks, > Om > > > 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 > > > > > > >
