google analytics

I have released the core framework module for the CASAA (Context Ad Serving and Analytics) framework module.

For those of you that aren't aware of what the module is, the system is a plug-able framework that handles ad serving and analytics systems such as, Google Analytics, OAS ad server, Omniture Site Catalyst, Yahoo! APT, plus many other systems.

The framework contains a developer API to allow developers to create new plug-ins for the framework that aren't currently supported.

Overview: This project will improve the tracking and analysis of website traffic in Drupal.

Description: There is a need for better traffic analysis in Drupal. A possible implementation of this project may involve writing a script separate from Drupal that accesses server logs directly. Other features may include an API to allow contrib modules to log events or a way to send statistics to third party tools, such as Google Analytics.

Some ideas:

• Provide both client and server side tracking APIs.
• Access server logs to get statistics for files and requests not served by Drupal (JavaScript, images, other files).
• Be aware of Drupal's page caching mechanisms and work around those.
• Track actions- Use actions as 'goals'?
• Track JavaScript events.
• Extensibility: Allow analysis plug-ins to be made.
• Performance is a big factor! Traffic tracking shouldn't produce a too big of a load on the system, whether it is database size or performance when actually loading the page.

Please share your thoughts and ideas.

Mentors:

Difficulty: Hard

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

El amigo Jorge Valencia (http://groups.drupal.org/user/9453), de http://www.sincanon.org ha enviado la traducción para el módulo de Google Analytics y la he colocado en el folder po del cvs del módulo, por lo que mañana debe estar incluida en el paquete. La anexo acá de todas formas en formato con la extensión .txt. Es sólo cambiarle la extensión a .po al copiar el archivo que anexo.

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