I have a website which has got 4 steps for account sign up. I am trying to implement a google analytics funnel using javascript to find out how many people are gone through each step of sign up process.
I used asp.net wizard control for account sign up.Each step refers the same page(signup/default.aspx) with next and previous buttons.
protected void wzsignup_ActiveStepChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string step = wzsignup.ActiveStep.ID.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); //example of step name is personaldetails..
string script = "var _gaq=_gaq || [];_gaq.push(['_setAccount','UA-XXXXX-1' ]);_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']);_gaq.push(['_trackPageview'],'/{0}');(function(){{var ga=document.createElement('script');ga.type='text/javascript';ga.async=true;ga.src=('https:'==document.location.protocol?'https://ssl':'http://www')+'.google-analytics.com/ga.js';var s=document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga,s);}})();";
script = string.Format(script, step);
HtmlGenericControl scriptTag = new HtmlGenericControl("script");
scriptTag.Attributes.Add("type", "text/javascript");
scriptTag.InnerHtml = script;
this.Page.Header.Controls.Add(scriptTag);
}
How do i get the report for signup steps?
The documentation google has on this is pretty good. There are two pieces that you will need to do. The first is to set up page view tracking by specifying a virtual url for each of the steps of your conversion funnel. Here's the documentation link for that:
http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1116091#identical
The second part is setting up the goal within google analytics where you can create the goal and specify the steps for the funnel:
http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1116091#funnels
I highly recommend that you read the google documentation on this... they outline these steps pretty well.
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'm having trouble with the final steps implementing firebase to our unity app, any help would be really really appreciated
The problem involves receiving custom parameters when the app is opened by a dynamic link
The app opens fine, redirects to store etc if needed so that's ok but when I try to use the custom parameter it never holds the desired info but instead returns the fallback url to our website, I'm using the on link received function copied from dynamic link test app.
the outgoing link looks like this - "https://fbb.page.link/PL/?p=XXXXXXXXXX; where XXXXX is the param im looking for
void Start() {
DynamicLinks.DynamicLinkReceived += OnDynamicLink;
}
void OnDynamicLink(object sender, EventArgs args) {
var dynamicLinkEventArgs = args as ReceivedDynamicLinkEventArgs;
Debug.LogFormat("Received dynamic link {0}",
dynamicLinkEventArgs.ReceivedDynamicLink.Url.OriginalString);
}
// Display the dynamic link received by the application.
void OnDynamicLink(object sender, EventArgs args) {
var dynamicLinkEventArgs = args as ReceivedDynamicLinkEventArgs;
Debug.LogFormat("Received dynamic link {0}",
dynamicLinkEventArgs.ReceivedDynamicLink.Url.OriginalString);
}
but the recieved link returns our homepage and not 'p'
Again any help much appreciated
I finally found the reason this wasnt working for me so for anyone searching as this has been troubling us for some time.
In the end it was because I was using a shortened link which was occluding the parameters I needed, once I tried using the original long link it worked straight away
So for cleanliness sake, I use a link to our website plus the required param, the site takes the param and inserts it into a preset long dynamic link url and redirects to that link, this gives us a nice tidy url with the benefits of parameters
I would like to write a scraping script to retrieve comments from cnn articles. For example, this article: http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/19/politics/gop-debate/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
I realize that cnn uses disqus for their comment discussion. As the comment loading is not webpage-based (ie, prev page, next page) and is dynamic (ie, need to click "load next 25"), I have no idea how to retrieve all the 5000+ comments for this article.
Any idea or suggestion?
Thanks so much!
I needed to get comments via scraping a page that had disqus comments via ajax. Because they were not rendered on the server, I had to call the disqus api. In the source code, you will need the identifier code:
var identifier = "456643" // take note of this from the page source
// this is the ident url query param in the following js request
also,look in the js source code to get the pages public key, and forum name. Place these in the url where appropriate.
I used javascript nodejs to test this, ie :
var request = require("request");
var publicKey = "pILMw27bsbJsdfsdQDh9Eh0MzAgFL6xx0hYdsdsdfaIfBHRvLGqFFQ09st";
var disqusUri = "https://disqus.com/api/3.0/threads/listPosts.json?&api_key=" + publicKey + "&thread:ident=456643&forum=nameOfForumFromSource";
request(disqusUri, function(res,status,err){
console.log(res.body);
if(err){
console.log("ERR: " + err);
}
});
The option for scraping (other then getting the page), which might be less robust (depends on you're needs) but will offer a solution for the problem you have, is to use some kind of wrapper around a full fledged web browser and literally code the usage pattern and extract the relevant data. Since you didn't mention which programming language you know, I'll give 3 examples: 1) Watir - ruby, 2) Watin - IE & Firefox via .net, 3) Selenium - IE via C#/Java/Perl/PHP/Ruby/Python
I'll provide a little example using Watin & C#:
IE browser = new IE();
browser.GoTo(YOUR CNN URL);
List visibleComments = Browser.List(Find.ById("dsq-comments"));
//do your scraping thing
Link moreComments = Browser.Link(Find.ByClass("dsq-paginate-append-text");
moreComments.click();
//wait util ajax ended by searching for some indicator
Browser.WaitUntilContainsText(SOME TEXT);
//do your scraping thing
Notice:
I'm not familiar with disqus, but it might be a better option to force all the comments to show by looping the Link & click parts of the code I posted until all the comments are visible and the scrape the List element dsq-comments
Is it possible not to show the google analytic code on the master page? I mean can I place it somewhere where no one can see it but still get all the analysis on the application ?
You can use the mobile code for google analytic to make what you ask.
http://code.google.com/mobile/analytics/docs/web/
How this works. This google modile code can call the google analytic from your server on code behind, and not from the client page using javascript. So you can totally hide this call from your clients, and all data are send to google analytic, let say on page load.
First on your google analytic detail page, get the code for mobiles for asp.net, and then see this code that you need to focus and change, so you can make a global function that use on Page Load. To avoid possible delay I also suggest to make a new thread call to the google analytics, until the asp.net 4.5 get outs that include that option on WebRequest.
string utmGifLocation = "http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif";
// Construct the gif hit url.
string utmUrl = utmGifLocation + "?" +
"utmwv=" + Version +
"&utmn=" + GetRandomNumber() +
"&utmhn=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(domainName) +
"&utmr=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(documentReferer) +
"&utmp=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(documentPath) +
"&utmac=" + account +
"&utmcc=__utma%3D999.999.999.999.999.1%3B" +
"&utmvid=" + visitorId +
"&utmip=" + GetIP(GlobalContext.Request.ServerVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"]);
SendRequestToGoogleAnalytics(utmUrl);
private void SendRequestToGoogleAnalytics(string utmUrl)
{
try
{
WebRequest connection = WebRequest.Create(utmUrl);
((HttpWebRequest)connection).UserAgent = GlobalContext.Request.UserAgent;
connection.Headers.Add("Accepts-Language",
GlobalContext.Request.Headers.Get("Accepts-Language"));
using (WebResponse resp = connection.GetResponse())
{
// Ignore response
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
if (GlobalContext.Request.QueryString.Get("utmdebug") != null)
{
throw new Exception("Error contacting Google Analytics", ex);
}
}
}
All that is a little hack on google analytic mobile code, but the general idea works on your case. Get the Google Analytic SDK here.
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/home.html
What actually google try to archive here. Google say that there is not reason for mobile phone with limited and costly bandwidth to make the call on google analytics. So google make a code behind call to google analytic just by opening a page. From the part of the mobile, he only need to read a tiny image, and on code behind this call to the image is making the reall call to google. From your side, you do not need to place an image, you can direct call google analytic by changing a little the function that google provides.
Hope this help.
since you have to put it in your header for the analytic script, there is no easy way of doing this. you want to hide your ID#? There may be a way to reference a variable for your ID#, but without a bunch of extra coding there is no way.
If it's there, people can see it if they look for it. If it's not there, you can't get the analysis.
You could get a little sneaky, and have the analytics on a page that gets loaded into an invisible iframe, but someone that wants to find it will.
i'm developing an application that'll be played by different's users, but i'm using the as3 graph api for authenticating users and posting on their wall, and i need to logout each user, before next user start his session on as3 graph api:
http://code.google.com/p/facebook-actionscript-api/
I search to force FB to ask for login's info but after a logout when login again, API skip the step and log, on the last user session.
None of the solutions I have seen on the web did work for me. The problem is indeed with StageWebView facebook cookie not being cleared on logout with FacebookMobile.logout() call. Loading logout.php with access token did not help me probably because there is no "next" parameter value for air applications that makes sense. I have seen people suggest to use localhost or facebook.com there but none of these options worked.
I have come up with a really questionable solution, but it works for now.
The point is to logout user in facebook normally like he would logout on his own. To do this we need to load facebook.com in StageWebView and click logout. Logout button is a submit form item for "logout_form" html form. So we need to make a javaScript call
document.getElementById('logout_form').submit();
in our StageWebView. And we can do just that by calling
webView.loadURL("javascript:document.getElementById('logout_form').submit();");
in ActionScript.
The full code that I use for now
protected var _logoutAttemptInProgress:Boolean = false;
public function fbLogout():void{
if(!_isLoggedIn) return;
if(_logoutAttemptInProgress) return;
_logoutAttemptInProgress = true;
var webView:StageWebView = new StageWebView();
webView.viewPort = new Rectangle(-1, 0, 1, 1);
webView.stage = this.stage;
webView.loadURL("http://www.facebook.com/lksmlrsgnlskn");
webView.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, runLogoutJs);
function runLogoutJs(event:Event):void{
webView.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, runLogoutJs);
var jsString:String = "document.getElementById('logout_form').submit();";
webView.loadURL("javascript:"+jsString);
webView.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, closeWebView);
}
function closeWebView(event:Event):void{
webView.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, closeWebView);
webView.stage = null;
webView.dispose();
_isLoggedIn = false;
_logoutAttemptInProgress = false;
}
FacebookDesktop.logout(null, APP_ORIGIN);
}
"lksmlrsgnlskn" is just some random garbage to get to error page that is much smaller than main page and loads faster.
FacebookDesktop.logout is to clear any local SharedObject data that Facebook lib might still have.
This is an issue that's been continuously revised by FacebookMobile, Facebook, and FacebookDesktop. Basically, you'll need to make sure you set FacebookDesktop.manageSession = false; and pass in the 2nd argument of "logout" your site's api url. If that doesn't work, the other method is to use "reallyLogout", as detailed here in this thread.
The notes in comment #24 detail the way to expos the Access Token from FacebooMobile (or whichever singleton you're using), and then manually calling the logout.php method on Facebook, with the access token.
http://code.google.com/p/facebook-actionscript-api/issues/detail?id=297#c24
This is a problem with the cookies, i mean, the firts user session remains and when you press to login the API logs in the first user.
I dont know why but the Facebook Api log out method dont log the user out of facebook, only log the user out from your application.
If you came to a solution or think something else, let me know so we could get the solution.
We have tracking in our emails to track clicks back to our site through Google Analytics. But is there a way to track opens? I would imagine I have to add a google tracking image to the email somewhere. Possibly javascript too?
As others have pointed out, you can't use Javascript in email. The actual tracking is done by a request for __utm.gif though and the Javascript just constructs the GET parameters.
Google supports non-Javascript uses of Google Analytics per their Mobile web docs:
http://code.google.com/mobile/analytics/docs/web/
They document the full list of parameters, but the only necessary parameters are:
Parameter Description
utmac Google Analytics account ID
utmn Random ID to prevent the browser from caching the returned image
utmp Relative path of the page to be tracked
utmr Complete referral URL
The reference that describes all of the parameters that the Google Analytics tracking GIF allows is here. Use it to build an <img> tag in your email that references the GA GIF.
According to this post, the minimum required fields are:
utmwv=4.3
utmn=<random#>&
utmhn=<hostname>&
utmhid=<random#>&
utmr=-&
utmp=<URL>&
utmac=UA-XXXX-1&
utmcc=_utma%3D<utma cookie>3B%2B_utmz%3D<utmz cookie>%3B
It sounds like you are using campaign tracking for GA but also want to know how many opens there were. This is possible to do with Google Analytics, since they track pageviews or events by use of pixel tracking as all (I think?) email tracking does. You cannot use javascript, however, since that will not execute in an email.
Using Google Analytics pixel tracking:
The easiest way would be to use browser developer tools such as Firebug for Firefox or Opera's Dragonfly to capture a utm.gif request and copy the URL. Modify the headers to suit your needs. You can count it either as an event or pageview. If you count it as an event it should look something like this:
http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmwv=4.8.6&utmn=1214284135&utmhn=www.yoursite.com&utmt=event&utme=email_open&utmcs=utf-8&utmul=en&utmje=1&utmfl=10.1%20r102&utmdt=email_title&utmhid={10-digit time code}&utmr=0&utmp=email_name&utmac=UA-{your account}
You can use this to understand what describes what in the headers.
I better post this to save everyone the trouble of trying to construct that monstrous UTM gif URL.
You can now use the new Measurement Protocol API to send a POST request and easily record events, page views, hits, or almost any other type of measurement. It's super easy!
POST /collect HTTP/1.1
Host: www.google-analytics.com
payload_data
For example, here's a code snippet to send an event in C# (using SSL endpoint):
public void SendEvent(string eventCategory = null, string eventAction = null, string eventLabel = null, int? eventValue = null)
{
using(var httpClient = new HttpClient() {BaseAddress = new Uri("https://ssl.google-analytics.com/")}) {
var payload = new Dictionary<string, string>();
// Required Data
payload.Add("v", "1"); // Version
payload.Add("tid", "UA-XXX"); // UA account
payload.Add("aip", "1"); // Anonymize IP
payload.Add("cid", Guid.NewGuid().ToString()); // ClientID
payload.Add("t", "event"); // Hit Type
// Optional Data
payload.Add("ni", "1"); // Non-interactive hit
// Event Data
if (eventCategory != null)
{
payload.Add("ec", eventCategory);
}
if (eventAction != null)
{
payload.Add("ea", eventAction);
}
if (eventLabel != null)
{
payload.Add("el", eventLabel);
}
if (eventValue != null)
{
payload.Add("ev", eventValue.Value.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
}
using (var postData = new FormUrlEncodedContent(payload))
{
var response = httpClient.PostAsync("collect?z=" + DateTime.Now.Ticks, postData).Result;
if (!response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
throw new Exception("Could not send event data to GA");
}
}
}
}
Way easier than the hack with the __utm gif.
Helpful Example
You can easily add this to emails by doing this:
In an email:
<img src="{url}/newsletter/track.gif?newsletterName=X" />
In your MVC site, for example, NewsletterController:
public ActionResult Track(string newsletterName) {
using(var ga = new AnalyticsFacade()) {
ga.TrackEmailOpen(newsletterName);
}
return Content("~/images/pixel.gif", "image/gif");
}
In your Global.asax or RouteConfig:
routes.MapRoute(
"newsletteropen",
"newsletter/track.gif",
new
{
controller = "Newsletter",
action = "Track"
});
BOOM, done, son. You can now track email opens using a much nicer API that's supported and documented.
Is your requirement is to track how many times an e-mail is open by given user. We have similar problem. We are using SMTP relay server and wanted to track how many times our marketing e-mails are open in addition to google-analytics which register an even only when someone clicks inside link to our site in e-mail.
This is our solution. It is based on making a REST call by overriding image element of html (our e-mails are html base)
where TRACKING is dynamically generated url which points to our REST service with tracking information about person to which e-mail was send. It is something like that
//def trackingURL = URLEncoder.encode("eventName=emailTracking&entityType=employee&entityRef=" + email.empGuid, "UTF-8");
trackingURL = baseUrl + "/tracking/create?" + trackingURL;
It will be something like "https://fiction.com:8080/marketplace/tracking/Create?eventName=email&entityType=Person&entityRef=56"
When when actual e-mail html is generated it, TRACKING will be replaced by
Important point is to return a response of type image and return a one pixel transparent image with REST response.
So i'll assume that the email contains a link to your Site. Certainly GA can record how often that link is clicked because clicking the link will open the page in turn causing the function *_trackPageview()* to be called, which is recorded by GA as a pageview.
So as long as that page has the standard GA page tag, no special configuration is required--either to the GA code in your web page markup or to the GA Browser. The only additional work you have to do is so that you can distinguish those page views from page views by visitors from another source.
To do that, you just need to tag this link. Unless you have your own system in place and it's working for you, i recommend using Google URL Builder to do this for you. Google URL Builder is just a web-form in which you enter descriptive terms for your marketing campaign: Campaign Source, Campaign Medium, Campaign Content, Campaign Name. Once you've entered values for each of these terms, as well as entered your Site's URL, Google will instantly generate a 'tagged link' for you (by concatenating the values to your Site's URL).
This URL generated by Google URL Builder is the link that would be placed in the text of your marketing email.