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Templating Confluence for enhanced usability

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 [...]

Tracking Atlassian Confluence usage with Google Analytics

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? The Global Activity statistics are [...]

Tracking referers to your website from Twitter clients 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 — [...]

How To Track Events in Flash Movies using WebTrends

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 [...]

Google Analytics and SungardHE Luminis

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
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jGoogleAnalytics – Google Analytics integration for jQuery

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 [...]