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Another advantage of "native" analytics is to capture downloads of all file types. Google Analytics does not know about your PDF downloads (unless there is some
by houshuang 15y ago
Another advantage of "native" analytics is to capture downloads of all file types. Google Analytics does not know about your PDF downloads (unless there is something I don't know about), and or me that is quite important.
I hope you figure out how to block referrer spam. I use both GA and awstats as provided by my webhost, and the numbers are widely different. The referrer list at awstats is almost useless since I get hundreds of hits from viagra selling sites etc, despite the fact that I don't publish the referrer list publicly anywhere.
- ivan_ah 15y agoFor anything other than page loads, you need "Events": http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTra... for example: <a onClick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Vids', 'Play', 'Title']);">Play</a>
- crdoconnor 15y agoThis doesn't track when you right click and click download or open in new tab.
- ivan_ah 15y agoInteresting. Do you know of a work around for "open in new tab"? Would "save link as" be counted? I guess the server side logs would come-in handy in that case.
- houshuang 15y agoAlso doesn't track when people go directly to download your files, for example finding PDFs through Google Scholar.