I want to add Google analytics manually on each pages and events in my website. Is there any ways to add Google analytics using REST api or any library in PHP. so i can track specific events of my website.
There is no REST API for Google Analytics. You will have to use one of the available libraries provided by Google.
To track particular events, you can use tag manager or simply use custom dimensions.
TL;DR, Google Analytics is great if all you ever use is their GUI dashboard. If you need API access, go with another service.
If you need to access analytics data programmatically, especially if you are using NodeJS, I suggest you use some other service besides Google. Their documentation is incredibly lacking, they try to pigeon-hole you into using a client library rather than steering you in the direction of a REST API, and authenticating is a nightmare. The new v4 API purportedly consists of a single endpoint that you need to query with a complex combination of HTTP body and query params. Again, documentation is nearly non-existent.
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We couldn't find any code on Google Analytics Developers about how to enable Advertising Features for acccountId. Is it possible to make such request using API? If this isn't possible then gapi.client.analytics.management.remarketingAudience.insert({ seems pretty useless because you still need to do it manually. Any solution?
The API you mentioned is to create an audience segment.
You can't enable advertising features with API. You can enable it in Google Analytics interface or modifying code (in page or in GTM).
I maintain a WordPress store locator plugin, and this week someone told me it wasn't working anymore. Eventually he fixed it by verifying his domain in the API Console.
That this was a solution to some APIs of Google Maps not working was new to me, and it's also the first time someone told me they fixed it this way.
The problem is that I can't find any information in which scenario verifying your domain fixes a Google Maps API related problem. I read through the Geocode API / Google Maps JavaScript API / Google Places API Web Service pages, but no where do I see something about the need to verify your domain ( I could of course have missed it ).
Does anyone know when you need to verify your domain if you want to use the Google Maps APIs? Normally it works fine without doing it, but in his case it wasn't, and I really like to know what he could possible have done to make it a requirement.
You shouldn't need to verify the domain for using Google Maps API.
You need to generate one API Key for your app so you can use it when you call the Google Map JavaScript API like this:
<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=YOUR_API_KEY&callback=initMap" async defer></script>
Substitute the value YOUR_API_KEY for the one that Google generated for you.
I would like to enable (some) of my users to view my website's analytics data.
Our website has a bunch of groups where users can add content. I would like to enable certain users (group admins), to view usage statistics for that specific group. Ofcourse the data should only be accessable to those users with the VIEW_ANALYTICS right, not to any others.
Is there any way to do this in Google Analytics, or is there some other platform I could use to easily achieve this goal (we use AWS for our hosting)?
Regards,
klmdb
The Google Embed API allows you to display analytics data in your own pages. Pages that are only accessible to the members of your VIEW_ANALYTICS group.
You can create a service account and give it the appropriate access in the analytics user management for the property.
You also authorize the service account to use the embed API in the developers API console. (I don't have enough points to include more than two links in an answer.) In the API console you can generate a private key (p12 or json format) which you then use on your server to authenticate the request for analytics data.
You don't say which technologies you are using, but they show Java and Python examples of how to set up the authentication by the Service Account. I've also seen some node.js and php libraries.
This way you don't have to manage who has access through the google anayltics admin system, you just need to control who has access to your "dashboard" page.
I have done this all with client-side javascript and it works. Of course the client-side nature means that anybody who knows how to use browser debug tools can get our private-key, but in our particular case I'm not worried about it. On the other had it seem like you need to keep some security around this so I wouldn't recommend the client-side solution.
I have a small API written in node.js that has no website attached, it works only on AJAX calls. I want to know if it is possible to use Google Analytics, or other good Analytics tool to monitor traffic.
I think it depends on how you have things set up but I wonder if you couldn't just add the normal JavaScript tracking to your API since its JavaScript as well. In the event you cant do that you should check out the Measurement Protocol Overview, it will allow you to send the raw data to Google Analytics yourself.
I am trying to make the google analytic __utm.gif request using php. I have broken all the variables and the only one which I don't know about is utmu parameter. It is not documented anywhere.
When I see a pageview tracking request it is appended to the end of request as &utmu=qB~
While doing ecommerce tracking it is appended as &utmu=qBAL~
Please help me with this.
It is a bitmap of all of the methods used to build the request.
Source: http://glucik.blogspot.com/2011/02/utmu-google-analytics-request-parameter.html
utmu doesn't actually contain anything of external meaning. Google uses it to store some internal values that help them improve ga.js. It's not required to make any functionality work, so, your PHP code doesn't need to account for it.
However, you should know there are already a few long-standing PHP-based Google Analytics projects, like Server Side Google Analytics (SSGA), as well as the semi-official Google Analytics for Mobile PHP and PHPGA.