On Feb 9, 12:33 pm, Anders <[email protected]> wrote: > I just got an idea about having GAE applications directly connected to > Google Analytics. Instead of having JavaScript snippets pasted into > the application's webpages, to have the integration done on the server > level.
Logs generated on the server tell you how often particular pages have been requested: that includes requests from web crawlers, and from people who have gone out of their way to block Google Analytics, but it excludes requests for cacheable pages which have been cached on a user's browser or on an intervening proxy server. Google Analytics tells you about page views from browsers that execute Javascript. It excludes web crawlers (which don't generally execute scripts) and also excludes people running advert blockers that have been configured to block access to Analytics. However, it does include each page view separately even if the page itself was cached and no request went up to the server. Analytics can also track link clicks on a page (e.g. exit clicks going to another site) if you have configured it to do that. So server side and client side give you two different, but in both cases incomplete, sets of statistics. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
