This post is a short video tutorial that shows how to add custom dimensions to Webtrends. Having setup event tracking on Webtrends, you’ll likely want to build reports in the Webtrends admin UI. Even after adding event tracking JavaScript, reporting of your dimension or measure doesn’t just happen magically. Webtrends needs to know what to [...] Read more – ‘Adding custom dimensions in Webtrends. A video tutorial.’.
In Webtrends, events that happens after the page loads can be tracked using dcsMultiTrack. This takes the following form: dcsMultiTrack( key1, value1, key2, value2, key3, value3, ... ); But what if you don’t know how many key/value pairs you’ll be sending into dcsMultiTrack? How do you call it then? Take advantage of the JavaScript apply [...] Read more – ‘A simple Webtrends event tracking tip’.
People have been shouting from the rooftops that Confluence 4 has finally arrived. Despite all the hype, it’s a cracking release. I’m not going to list all the features here, as you can find them elsewhere. However I will mention one… The new editor Simply put, it’s fast, slick and gorgeous looking. It works better [...] Read more – ‘Confluence 4 — wiki markup is *dead*, _long live_ wiki markup’.
Last Tuesday, I went down to the National Archives at Kew, attended the London Atlassian User Group and presented a talk on “Confluence and Analytics”. In the morning there was a meet up with Atlassian plugin developers from all over northern Europe. We discussed amongst other things Adaptavist’s new plugin licensing system and Active Objects [...] Read more – ‘London Atlassian User Group – April 2011’.
On Monday, I travelled down to the beautiful city of Bath to attend The Big M — “a brand new independent mobile focused event aimed at those who want to learn from and connect with the very best people in the industry.” Read more – ‘The Big M Conference in Bath’.
I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again — I like to #measure. Google Analytics has a great feature called Advanced Segments. Using this feature, you can easily show a subset of data. Sharing advanced segments with other users One of the ways I use advanced segments is to categorise traffic into user types. [...] Read more – ‘Google Analytics Tip: Use Advanced Segments’.
Last week I released Analytics Plugin for Confluence 1.2 on the Atlassian Plugin Exchange. It’s been 6 months since the initial release which was only tested on Confluence 3.0. This time I’ve added a new dashboard section, full support for Confluence 3.1 & 3.2 and a pile of macro parameters as requested by Guy Fraser. [...] Read more – ‘Analytics Plugin for Confluence 1.2 released’.
This website and one or two others I run recently experienced what appeared to be a denial-of-service attack. Looking at the access logs, I could see several tens of thousands of requests all originating from a range of amazonaws.com IP addresses. All with the useragent “bitlybot”. This post is a quick postmortem of what went [...] Read more – ‘Bitten a lot by a bitlybot’.
Update: 2011-09-20 With the release of Confluence 4.0, this post obsolete. A simple Confluence user macro to hide access to the View Wiki Markup menu link… {hide-wiki-markup} One thing I love about Confluence is the way that you can browse other people’s pages and steal their superior layout ideas for your own wiki pages. It’s [...] Read more – ‘Hide wiki markup – Confluence user macro’.
I’ve previously written a number of posts about Confluence and Google Analytics (GA), including how to set up GA on Confluence and pointers for GA reports you should consider. Lastly, I wrote the Confluence Google Analytics Plugin (CGAP) which provides space specific GA reports from within Confluence. However, I’ve not been entirely happy because there [...] Read more – ‘Meta tags are your friend part 2: Space specific tracking in Confluence with Google Analytics’.
Please fix the search UI in Safari on the iPhone. I’ve been using the iPhone for some time now and overall, the interface is really slick. The buttons are consistently placed and this gives a really strong user experience. Everything appears to be in the obvious place. The trouble is, I like to search the [...] Read more – ‘Dear Apple Inc.’.
I recently started building Confluence plugins. The first one being my Google Analytics plugin for Confluence. This post outlines my “journey” into Confluence plugin development. It documents a beginner’s pitfalls when developing with the Atlassian Plugin SDK. Hopefully others can learn from, or at least laugh at my mistakes. Where I was starting from: No [...] Read more – ‘Some thoughts on developing my first Confluence plugin’.
I’m pleased to announce the release of my first Confluence plugin — Google Analytics plugin for Confluence. It lists Google Analytics reports for a particular Confluence space – from within that space. The current version has 10 reports and shows the first 20 results for each report. Top Content Depth of Visit Internal Search Browser [...] Read more – ‘Announcing: Google Analytics plugin for Confluence’.
Here are the slides from a talk I gave at the European Luminis User Group in Nottingham last week. Outlined are some thoughts behind reusable UI elements in the Luminis portal at the University of Nottingham. Portal UI Design Patterns Read more – ‘Portal UI Design Patterns’.
We run Confluence with the (default) en_GB locale and language. For our purposes, some of the boilerplate text needs changing. This post describes how to solve this problem with a partial British English language pack that overrides only part of the Confluence interface text. Read more – ‘Changing boilerplate text in Confluence’.
Having installed Google Analytics on Confluence, you need to ensure that you’re not lost in a world of pretty metrics. Make sure that your new analytics toy produces something solid and actionable. Anything less is just a shiny curiosity that your organisation will soon fail to engage with. This article presents 4 useful tips that [...] Read more – ‘4 Useful Tips on Google Analytics Reporting for Confluence’.
I love Confluence. It’s simple. It’s easy to use. It’s hierarchical, so you can build a nice structure. But… I hate Confluence. I can’t find anything. Ever. It’s hierarchical, but which branch in the hierarchy is my content located in? Damnit, the Lucene powered search doesn’t seem to be able to find what I’m searching [...] Read more – ‘Templating Confluence for enhanced usability’.
Updated 2011-06-30: Changed to asynchronous Google Analytics tracking You’ve chosen Confluence as your Enterprise wiki and got it installed. People are using it. But how many people? You could have a look at the Global Activity page on Confluence, but this might confuse matters. You’ll get to see graphs, but what do they really mean? [...] Read more – ‘Tracking Atlassian Confluence usage with Google Analytics’.
If someone using a desktop Twitter client (such as TweetDeck or Twirl) clicks on a link I’ve posted to my blog, the Google Analytics referer information will be blank. It registers as direct traffic to the website. This is fine when linking to other people’s websites — I’m not worried about them — but I’d [...] Read more – ‘Tracking referers to your website from Twitter clients with Google Analytics’.
If your website contains Flash movies that link offsite or to microsites, you may wish to register the offsite link using WebTrends. This article provides an introduction. It assumes a little knowledge of ActionScript, Javascript as well as WebTrends. This example uses a intermediary javascript function that sits between the Flash movies and the WebTrends [...] Read more – ‘How To Track Events in Flash Movies using WebTrends’.
The slides from a presentation I’m giving today at the European Luminis User Group (ELUG) meeting at the University of Greenwich. Google Analytics and Sungard HE Luminis View more presentations from dvdsmpsn. (tags: google analytics) Read more – ‘Google Analytics and SungardHE Luminis’.
Since I last added Google Analytics to a website, Google have changed from the old urchin.js file to the shiny new ga.js file. This means that I really ought to start using ga.js now. The University of Nottingham uses Sungard’s Luminis portal system which produces some rather nasty looking URLs. Web analytics for this is [...] Read more – ‘jGoogleAnalytics – Google Analytics integration for jQuery’.
