Tag web analytics

Analytics Plugin for Confluence 1.2 released

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 [...]

Meta tags are your friend part 2: Space specific tracking in Confluence with Google Analytics

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 [...]

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 — [...]

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 [...]