Analytics
Capturing data on users can be the most effective to modify a site, making it more user friendly, efficient, and a better return on investment.
Many 3rd party tools exist (eg. Google Analytics) to track users across a website. Drupal also has some tools for this purpose (eg. Statistics, Xstatistics).
This group exists to suggest ways to improve Drupal's internal analytics and ways to better integrate with other tools.
Please avoid making support requests such as "How do I get more people to buy my products?" or "How do I use Xstatistics?" However, please feel free to talk about your data if you think it helps the purpose of this group: improving user behavior analysis in Drupal.
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Recommendations: Tracking User Behavior
Question - what does the community recommend for a quality service that can track user behavior? Specifically, a comprehensive option that understands Drupal and the layout and can cleanly track as much information as possible. This would include frequency of login, pages viewed, time on the site, node creation, comment creation, etc. I am assuming this is not going to be free, but I'd also like it to not cost into the thousands of dollars per month.
New Google Analytics Ecommerce module
Hi,
I have released a new module called Google Analytics Ecommerce, allowing associate tracking ecommerce with the creation and updating of nodes, so you can turn any website into an ecommerce store in google analytics. It is in active development right now, but any test and feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Online analytics team and proposal for drupal.org
On the SEO project team for the drupal.org redesign we recently discussed doing more with analytics measurement of SEO goals and objectives.
After analysing the Drupal.org Google Analytics data we found no goals are specified currently. Neither does there seem to be any governance or
methodology.
To optimize drupal.org we need to take analytics serious. Therefore we have created a proposal of integrating online analytics into Drupal.org and
into the Drupal community. Not just for SEO; we need to improve user experience and gain insights.
Google analytics are... showing not all visitors. Can this be related to some of performance module?
Hi,
Have a site with:
-CacheRouter with db caching
-APC on the server, but not used with CacheRouter
-Boost with default-agressive settings, crowler enabled
-JS minify + gzip
-CSS gzip
-block cache module enabled
-"Normal" drupal cache
-Paged are gzipped by drupal
-GA code is in footer
-Google Analytics module was used with "cache locally" and without - but no change.
-All the internal Google Analytics indicators is showing that everything is ok, some stats is available.
-JS minify+gzip is enabled, but I clearly see the .js file, which is accesible.
Google Analytics Campaign: 0 visits, dozens of pageviews
Hi,
A client of mine is running a marketing campaign that will display ads on someone elses site. The owner of this site asked for a tracking URL. Since we use Google Analytics, I simply used the Google Campagin builder tool to make this URL:
http://mydomain.com/mypage?utm_source=nick&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaig...
I tested the URL and now have data showing up in Google Analytics. However, the campaign report shows 0 visits. (Traffic Sources > Campaigns)
Summer of Code Project: Drupal Analytics
I just wanted to draw your attention to a proposal for a Drupal Analytics project for Summer of Code 2009: http://groups.drupal.org/node/20452
We are gathering ideas, so come share your thoughts!
Google Analytics Module Video
Just posted a video about using the Google Analytics module. Anyone can provide me with feedback about what I missed or didn't cover.
Matt
Google Analytics Optimizer
So, I am about to implement google analytics optimizer on a relatively large site, has anyone have any experience doing this? Also, did anyone ever got the search function in GA working for drupal search?
Traffic analysis is making me pull my hair out ...
... and I do not have any hair to spare!
We run a Drupal site that is getting about 60,000 page views a day. We use Google Analytics and AWStats to analyze our traffic, and the Google Analytics page views are coming in about 13% lower than AWStats. This is after we have aggressively filtered AWStats to make sure we're only counting actual page views.
Goals for Drupal Analytics
Have been implemented Drupal actions as goals? If so, how? I am thinking of user registration, comment posting, profile editing, etc.
Time to Give Back: Become a Speaker at Drupalcon Boston 2008
Hello,
We are looking for speakers for the upcoming DrupalCon in Boston. Since you are subscribed to a business and marketing related group, you might be especially interested in the "Business and Marketing" track (see http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/business-and-marketing-track-descriptions ).
This track covers the following topics:
- The Drupal ecosystem
- Businesses learning to use Drupal
- Case studies
- Showcases: NPO, Education, News, Media, Government, Healthcare
Track Host Module
Hi there,
just to let you know about the track host module for drupal 4.7 I've just released.
The basic idea is to know the sequence and time-for-reading of users navigation on large content drupal sites (in my case http://roma.cercachetrovi.it)
Project home page: http://drupal.org/project/track_host
Feedbak is very welcome!
augusto
www.fagioli.biz
Analysis of Drupal.org web logs
Hello, there is an effort to re-design Drupal.org. I would like to conduct some analysis of Drupal.org access logs to make quantitative recommendations.
I'd like some help in the following areas.
1) Analysis of web access logs to determine most popular pages.
2) Analysis of D.O. search queries.
3) Analysis of Inbound and Outbound linking.
If anyone has time to contribute to this analysis please join: Drupal.org re-design analysis. I'll approve subscribers who have the time to help.
Kieran
Next generation of Drupal data collection and analysis tools, featuring extensibility
I recently began sketching out a module that will ultimately allow quick generation of custom reports and graphs based on arbitrary tables (Drupal or other). It's called Reports.
After beginning work on this module, I was contacted by several others who are working on related modules.
There are currently several modules available that augment Drupal's internal reports/statistics, however, none of them, AFAIK, were designed to be extensible.
I believe Drupal would benefit greatly from an extensible set of tools for collecting data and creating reports and graphs related to a specific Drupal website. These tools would be flexible and should be able to utilize arbitrary tables and perhaps new tables whose purpose is solely for reporting purposes (ie "cooked" data such as user sessions).
Anyone using something other than Google Analytics?
Hi, is everyone using Google Analytics? There must be other, tools. I'd like to know what you are using and what we should be running on Drupal.org.
Open Source Analytics Tools
One fast way to boost Drupal's analysis tools will be to port other open source packages to Drupal.
I've ported much of the JavaScript reporting from PHPMyvisites, and I am interested to know what other open source analytics systems people have used, what they like about them, what they hate, and what we should bring to drupal.
I am especially interested in displaying information: graphs, charts, etc. Any good packages out there?
JavaScript vs. PHP
I think Drupal is well positioned to be a very useful analysis tool as it serves pages and tracks those serves directly. In effect, Drupal can log everything that an Apache log can hold.
Additionally, I would like to see Drupal capture information about users that cannot be determined from the HTTP request information. Some examples include user connection speed, screen resolution, plugins, etc. I believe this will have to be done in JavaScript.
I am starting this thread to collect ideas on what can be found in and tracked in PHP and what should be tracked via JavaScript.
