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 [...]
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 and OS
Browser Version
Screen [...]
Here’s a quick screencast I made to show how easy it is to add custom segments – e.g. based on country/territory – to Google Analytics. There’s no audio. Sorry.
Adding custom segments to Google Analytics from David Simpson on Vimeo.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 — [...]
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 [...]
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)
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 [...]