Hello Dave!
I am sorry, I haven't responded to your first mail. It probably ended up in
the junk mail pile.
Thanks for investigating this. It sounds like a good idea to do the changes
that you describe. Shall I do it immediately or does the change in
configuration need to be synchronized in any way with changes to the site?
/Linus
2009/5/1 Dave Thompson <[email protected]>
> Does anyone have any thoughts about this... is it a good idea? Should
> we do this?
>
> Linus is the only one who can do the first part of this change, because
> he is the owner of the google analytics account.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave
>
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:07 +0100, "Dave Thompson" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi Linus (+anyone else interested in google analytics),
> >
> > You may have noticed with my recent commits that I've been experimenting
> > with the google analytics settings. In short, I think I have found a
> > way that we can collect download statistics in the same place,
> > contributing to the same totals, whether they are downloaded from a page
> > on argouml.tigris.org or argouml-downloads.tigris.org.
> >
> > Firstly, a bit of the background. At the moment, the download
> > statistics are collected in the same profile for both subdomains, and
> > the tracking code by default makes the assumption that any
> > _TrackPageView() calls are relative to the base subdomain of the page
> > they are linking from. This means that when a user downloads argouml
> > from:
> >
> > http://argouml.tigris.org/index.html, it registers a hit to
> > http://argouml.tigris.org/DOWNLOADS/ArgoUML-0.28-setup.exe
> >
> > and when they download from:
> >
> > http://argouml-downloads.tigris.org/nonav/argouml-0.28/index.html it
> > registers a hit to
> > http://argouml-downloads.tigris.org/DOWNLOADS/ArgoUML-0.28-setup.exe
> >
> > You probably already knew this.
> >
> >
> > Anyway, what I've tried doing is:
> > * Swapping over to the ga.js script (was of urchin.js) (made the change,
> > and used it for the rest of the tests).
> > * Tried specifying the full URL of the domain and download link on the
> > _TrackPageView() methods (resulted in an extra-long link hit being
> > logged, e.g.
> > http://argouml.tigris.orghttp://
> argouml-downloads.tigris.org/DOWNLOADS/ArgoUML-0.28-setup.exe).
> > * Used the pageTracker._setDomainName() method to set the domain name on
> > a argouml.tigris.org page to argouml-downloads.tigris.org (did not work)
> > * Used the pageTracker._setDomainName() method to set the domain name on
> > a argouml-downloads.tigris.org page to argouml.tigris.org (did not work)
> > * Used the pageTracker._setDomainName() method to set the domain name on
> > a argouml.tigris.org page to tigris.org (did not work)
> > * I did all of this on dummy pages
> > (http://argouml.tigris.org/index2.html, and
> > http://argouml-downloads.tigris.org/nonav/argouml-0.28/index2.html).
> > * I changed the text of the _TrackPageView() argument slightly each time
> > so that I could tell the difference between different tests that I had
> > done.
> >
> > All of this was quite slow to work through, because one has to wait 24
> > hours before the google reports are regenerated after making any change.
> >
> > I followed the instructions on
> > http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55524, and
> > I was hoping that by specifying the domain in the setDomainName()
> > method, it would remove the first part of the domain name, and links
> > from different subdomains would be tracked together. Unfortunately,
> > this did not work. I did notice that the above page says near the top,
> > "The instructions below assume that this profile was set up with the
> > primary domain as the listed website (e.g. sample.co.uk) ". With this
> > in mind, I tried setting up an experimental google analytics tracking
> > profile [UA-8393544-2] which was totally separate to the original
> > tracking profile. In this profile, I set up the Website URL to
> > http://tigris.org, (i.e. without any subdomain referenced). Then, in
> > the index2,html file, i used the setDomainName(".tigris.org") as
> > instructed. With this done, the new tracking profile tracked downloads
> > of /DOWNtest10LOAD/ArgoUML-0.28-setup.exe, without referring to any
> > subdomain.
> >
> > This seemed to work the same, whether I used
> > _setDomainName(".tigris.org") or not.
> >
> > So my conclusion is that the most flexible option is to set up the main
> > analytics account 'Website URL' to http://tigris.org. My suggestion is
> > that we make this change. That way we can choose whether or not to
> > track subdomains separately or together, and we will (by default)
> > combine the tracking of downloads from argouml.tigris.org and
> > argouml-downloads.tigris.org. If we want to track subdomains separately
> > (an obvious example I can think of is to track each of the sub-projects'
> > index.html, pages separately), we can do this by specifying the
> > subdomain on these pages using _setDomainName().
> >
> > Linus: What do you think about this suggestion?
> >
> > In case anyone else is reading this and wondering, none of this affects
> > the appearance or URLs of any of the pages from a user point of view, it
> > only affects what is displayed in the google analytics.
> >
> > This was my first ever look at google analytics, so if anyone has any
> > comments, particularly if you've any more experience of this, please
> > reply back! All feedback is welcome.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dave
> >
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