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Uwe Schindler commented on LUCENE-3978:
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Hi Hoss,
I have seen your commit and I now understand the reason for the redirect pages
(to also count downloads by Google Analytics). As I also did GA tracking for
webpages not long ago, there is a better/more correct solution to track
downloads. The trick is to add some javascript to the source link that tells
Google Analytics to create a "virtual pageview" when clicking on the link. The
virtual pageview is counted on a "virtual" URI (e.g., the current URL with the
redirect page, without http and hostname):
http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55529 In
fact, the trick is to execute the analytics javascript on the link click and
pass a "custom" url instead the default one from the current page.
> redo how our download redirect pages work
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> Key: LUCENE-3978
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3978
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Hoss Man
> Fix For: 4.0
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> the download "latest" redirect pages are kind of a pain to change when we
> release a new version...
> http://lucene.apache.org/core/mirrors-core-latest-redir.html
> http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html
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