Google Analytics

February

1

Google Analytics Third-Party Shopping Cart (Cross-Domain) Tracking Using Traditional and Asynchronous Snippet

Cross-domain tracking is used for several situations the most obvious for third-party shopping carts. Proper installation of the Google Analytics (GA) tracking code is essential for accurate tracking of visitors and sales.
GA offers two tracking code snippets for you to choose from: traditional (synchronous) and asynchronous.
First, a short review of the basic installation [...]

January

7

Google Analytics Showing My Site as Top Referrer

Update (Feb. 1, 2010) – Important:
After speaking to a few people regarding this issue, some other situations where this will occur have come to light.
First (most important), make sure you tracking code is installed properly on every page of your site. If you use cross-domain tracking or sub-domain tracking, install it correctly on every page [...]

December

19

ColdFusion and Google Analytics: Getting Out What You Put In

The Hooking into Google Analytics post details how to connect to the Data Export API of Google Analytics (GA) and get a simple visitors count in return. Here we will expand greatly on that and create a cfc that will process just about any result from the API. I submitted this topic to present at [...]

May

10

Google Analytics API Login Authentication with ColdFusion

You might also like the ColdFusion and Google Analytics: Getting Out What You Put In post.
Updated 08-02-2009: Replaced this line:

<cfset accountXML = callApi("https://www.google.com/analytics/feeds/accounts/#urlEncodedFormat(form.Email)#",loginAuth) />

with this:

<cfset accountXML = callApi("https://www.google.com/analytics/feeds/accounts/default",loginAuth) />

My Hooking into Google Analytics with ColdFusion post received a suggestion from Raymond Camden that authentication and token acquisition could be done via cfhttp for access to [...]

May

2

Hooking into Google Analytics with ColdFusion

You might also like the ColdFusion and Google Analytics: Getting Out What You Put In post.
Using Alex Curelea’s example of using PHP to hook into Google Analytics through their API, I developed a ColdFusion method. So, same thing as Alex just flavored with CF. The code grabs the profiles and pageviews, then totals up the [...]