[Building Sakai] use Google Analystics

[Liu, Peter]

Steve,

It is true that the Google Analytics only provides information about what tools the users are using and we may just put it at our login page at the end.

At this fall semester, we start to pilot the siteStats tool at Yale. If everything goes well, we will open it up to entire school in the coming Spring.

The siteStats tool looks great and many thanks to you and your coworker's hard work.


Thanks,
Peter 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Swinsburg [mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 8:18 PM
To: Liu, Peter
Cc: sakai-dev Dev; Thomas Amsler
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] use Google Analystics

It should indeed by non blocking. 

However, if you put it in the footer, then you might not get true stats since activity within a tool will not be recorded as it is in an iframe and the footer is not repainted.

What about sitestats?

cheers,
Steve

On 12/08/2011, at 5:00 AM, Thomas Amsler wrote:

> Interesting. I one would think that Google Analytics would communicate
> asynchronously (not blocking) to its server.
> -- Thomas
> 
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Liu, Peter <peter.liu at yale.edu> wrote:
>> Thanks Thomas.  I am worry about this because it happens once for one of our tester and he saw the browser shows nothing and browser status box at the bottom says ' wait for google analytics'  for a while.
>> 
>> -Peter
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Thomas Amsler [mailto:tpamsler at ucdavis.edu]
>> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 1:52 PM
>> To: Liu, Peter
>> Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] use Google Analystics
>> 
>> We at UC Davis use it, but it's only present on the gateway page.
>> -- Thomas
>> 
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Liu, Peter <peter.liu at yale.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Does any school use the Google Analytics for its Sakai production
>>> Instances?  It gives us a lot of useful data and however, I am not sure
>>> about the performance issue due to introducing the Google JavaScript snippet
>>> on every page at the footer.  What will happen if Google data collecting
>>> server is down?  I know some of the high profile companies use it such as
>>> Twetter.com and mySpace.com.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Any comment?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks  a lot!
>>> 
>>> Peter
>>> 
>>> 
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