On Nov 26, 11:15 am, String <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Analytics does give you a figure for "unique visitors"; I take that to > be a reasonable estimate of the number of people who have installed my > gadget. Sure, it misses people who haven't visited iGoogle that day, > but I can live with that.
That's what I'm looking at now too. Over a period, the number of unique visitors should give a good estimate of how many total people had it installed during that time. I have been experimenting with different url's to provide to analytics also. For example, I am now trying this for my "market summary" gadget: 1. Create a user pref named "added_on" 2. When the gadget loads, if added_on is blank, get the current date and populate the user pref with yyyy-mm-dd 3. In the analytics url, I use "/gadgets/marketsummary/[added_on] Now I can use "drilldown" to see total users at the /gadgets/ marketsummary/ level, but I can also drill down one more level to see when the users have actually added the gadget for the first time. With this I should be able to get some idea of how many new people are adding my gadget each day. I'm not that familiar with analytics yet, but I'm hoping I can create a report for "unique visitors that haven't been seen in at least a week" to get an idea of how many users are removing the app. I think gadgets development really calls for a customized version of analytics! A lot of what is in there now doesn't really apply to gadget authors tracking their use. Matt Kruse --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" 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-Gadgets-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
