Matt, Rather than using customized URLs, you might be able to make use of Analytics Events in your JS code. See: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/eventTrackerOverview.html. I haven't used it myself, but from what I can tell, it allows you to log "events" in Analytics that you can then track.
I agree that much of the existing Analytics structure is not very applicable to gadgets! String On Nov 26, 7:19 pm, "Matt (Guru)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
