I would like to have framework for tracking web site/page usage within company firewalls on asp.net platform.
Want to track hits and integrate with particular feature within an application to understand end user usage (i.e. log particular actions of users in addition to simple page count type analytics)
I have yet to find a framework to do this with asp.net/iis7 internal to a company (i.e. not google analytics)
thx
If you don't need anything too fancy, as in number of visits to urls, and you've got the clearance to install perl/CGI scripts, you could use awstats. It isn't bad for what it is and has the advantage of being free.
If you are down to spend some $$$ or you really need google analytics, you can host your own by purchasing an urchin license.
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one of our clients want to use google translate in its web application which is built in asp.net C#. First of all, is its free version or paid version?
I found one reference and we have already tried it.
https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_google_translate.asp
The only concern is can we use without Api key or license or we need to purchase. Our asp.net code will be published in IIS and multiple users are there to access this URL.
Yes, it is a free service.
You can use it without API key or license.
It translates your site on front-end, and totally different from having a page with multiple languages.
Check https://cloud.google.com/translate/docs/reference/rest if you need server side translating and more options.
>>>> BACKGROUND ON THE ISSUE <<<<
We were using Google Apps for Business when we started with the project. This allowed us to use the Google Developer Console (https://console.developers.google.com/) with our #company.co.za accounts and also to “login with Google” using our #company.co.za accounts. It turns out that the Google Developer Project (where the API keys are) was created using an ex-colleague's #company.co.za Google account.
When we moved from Google Apps for Business to Office 365, we lost the ability to login to the Google Developer Console with our #copany.co.za accounts. By then the colleague wasn’t working here anymore and I guess it all happened so quickly that we didn’t make sure to tie up all the loose ends.
Now we need to transfer development of the app and subsequently all related 3rd party projects and things, to the client for future development, but I cannot access the Google project.
This will require them to create a project on their side, generate new API keys for using the Google Maps API etc. And then update the apps (Android and iOS) with the new API keys.
>>>>> THIS IS MY QUESTION <<<<<
However, and this is where my question comes in, the apps are still working and happily accessing Google Maps. This makes me think that the project must still be somewhere.
I tried to access the Google Help pages, but because we're on a Bronze package, we can only find support information in their developer communities and online documentation listed here:
Join a Community
Service Disruption Notification
Best Practice Guides
But I thought to ask here too because SO is very reliable with answers :)
So, any idea if the project is still live somewhere? Or should we just create a new project with new API keys?
I don't think this is a stackoverflow question since it's not directly programming related. However, if you want to regain access to you project, this should be fairly simple and i hope this helps:
Create a new Google Apps for Business account with your domain (or maybe your old apps domain still exists?) and a single account. If you choose monthly payment the costs will be only a few bucks.
As the Google Apps domain administrator you should be able to access all appengine projects that belong to users of the same domain. If it doesn't you can contact Google support to reassign the projects. Alternatively: You may be able to recreate an account that owned the app. If you don't know the owner email, it is shown in the consent screent for oauth. With that email, try to access the project.
Create a Gmail account and transfer project ownership to this Gmail account
Delete the Google apps domain to avoid additional costs
All this is doable within an hour.
In case it doesn't work i would suggest you contact your Google sales representative or reseller and tell him, that you would like to purchase silver level support, but only if he can restore the permissions for you. This will cost you more, but if you have to access the project it may be the only way.
Last but not least:
You can contact Google support. You don't need silver level support for that. It will just take a lot longer to process your request. While in contact with the Google support you will have to prove that you are in fact the owner of the domain, which is usually done by adding a TXT record to your domain or uploading a file to your web server, so make sure you have access to your domain's DNS zone files / settings or web server document root.
What are available options of intranet-hosted (e.g. not Google Analytics) usage tracking tools for web application? This application is written in ASP.NET and used in intranet. So ideally if hosted part would be on .NET for consistency. I want to see where user clicks, what pages visit, what buttons clicks.
i can only recommend Piwik, which i used for some time, and produced great results (and it is open-source!)
Is there any reason you wouldn't use SaaS version for usage tracking?
Commercial solutions such as Totango (my company) honor your privacy and confidentiality.
My company uses Google Apps for our e-mail/business app provider. Every employee has an account here.
I'm looking into creating an asp.net web app that would allow users to sign-in (using their Google Apps account) and then accomplish certain things (first goal: keep a current record of the employee's skillset).
Before I get started, I wanted to find out if an OpenID login system using Google Apps is any more difficult than doing it the standard way, or if I need to be aware of any pitfalls.
We have one domain, and the only requirement would be that the user has an open account that exists.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts on this!
I have slides for you from a talk I gave a month ago: Google Apps Account As OpenID
http://www.slideshare.net/timdream/google-apps-account-as-openid
Basically there are two ways of doing this.
Follow the Google documentation, patch your ASP.net OpenID library to accept Google Apps OpenID that is not really discoverable from the claimed URL.
Install a set of discovery information on the claimed URL (/openid?id=XXXX on your website) to make your Google Apps OpenID behaviors the same way present OpenIDs do.
Either way, after completion user will be able to login to your ASP.net app with following URL:
https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/site-xrds?hd=[yourappsdomain]
My solution to this issue was to use the DotNetOpenAuth library -- I was unaware that the latest version has Google Apps support.
Highly recommend the product -- you can find it here.
I modified one of the example files and was up and running in no time.
Thanks to all who answered!
I need a hit counter for my various pages, but I can't use google analytics (my client isn't ready for cloud computing) and I can't use anything that requires access to the IIS logs (the server administrator owns them and doesn't want to give them up)
What resources are there for user usage tracking for what is essentially a hosted ASP.NET account?
I'm running an ASP.NET application on IIS 6. I've turned on health monitoring, but so far that is just creating log data with no analytics.
I recently wrote up a list of (mostly) free GA alternatives.
http://regulargeek.com/2010/05/29/25-free-google-analytics-alternatives/
Many of these are cloud-based, but there are some that are completely hosted as well. I cannot recommend a particular solution, but the most popular self-hosted packages look like Grape Web Statistics (http://www.quate.net/grape), Open Web Analytics (http://www.openwebanalytics.com/) and Piwik (http://piwik.org/).
You could use something that logged raw data to a database and then analyse this information.
Various alternatives to Google Analytics reviewed here:
http://sixrevisions.com/usabilityaccessibility/10-promising-free-web-analytics-tools/
Andy
You could add an http module to the asp.net pipeline and write off values to a sql database if you're in a do-it-yourself mood.
How much detail do you need? If don't need all the extensive features of these listed, I'd just write something myself.
for example, at the bottom of your master page, put something like:
<webapp:MyPageCounter ID="counter" runat="server" />
and then define the MyPageCounter usercontrol to log the page requested, IP address, and headers. then you'd have all the information to generate some reports from.
If you DO need more features, well, I think some shared hosting allow PHP apps. ;)
You could run the PHP analytics tool Piwik under Phalanger, a tool which executes PHP on the CLR