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.
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.
