Actually it can be done much more easily than that by just using the GATAG.JS
addon.
One line of code and a JS file on your server.
Grab it here - http://www.analyticsresults.com/search/label/ga.js
Also tracks outbound links . . .
Seb
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From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu on behalf of Glen Barnes
Sent: Thu 15/04/2010 7:55 AM
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] Suggestions for Web Analytics software besides GoogleAnalytics
Hi Bilkis,
You can track the downloads pretty easily using the _trackEvent tag [1]:
_trackEvent(category, action, optional_label, optional_value)
The key here is not to manually add this to _every_ link you want to track. I
can't find the exact page[2] that you want to access now but basically on page
load you have a default piece of javascript that adds the correct Javascript to
each anchor tag. Here[3] is a script that does it using the old method of
generating 'fake' page views (the new way of using event tracking is the
recommended way).
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Glen Barnes
http://www.mytoursapp.com
[1] http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html
[2]
http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=javascript+add+google+analytics+event+tracking+to+each+download+automatically&meta=&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
[3] http://www.goodwebpractices.com/downloads/gatag.js
On 15/04/2010, at 7:00 AM, mcn-l-request at mcn.edu wrote:
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:49:42 +0100
> From: "Mosoddik, Bilkis"
> Subject: [MCN-L] Suggestions for Web Analytics software besides Google
> Analytics
> To: "Museum Computer Network Listserv"
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> Hi everyone,
>
> We use WebTrends and Google Analytics (GA) for analysing our web
> statistics at Museum of London. However, WebTrends has become
> increasingly very expensive for us and we want to move away from it to a
> new, preferably free, package and would appreciate all your
> recommendations. I am aware of some of the software out there that has
> been mentioned in previous emails, but I would like a recommendation of
> one that you think is really good.
>
> A couple of things that the software should do that GA doesn't:
>
> * Allow reanalysis of web log files
> * Allow analysis of visits to downloads
>
> Any other comments or suggestions are welcome.
>
> Thanks.
> Bilkis.
>
>
> Bilkis Mosoddik
> Web Content Manager, Web Team, Communications
> Museum of London
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