[Building Sakai] use Google Analystics

[Alan Berg]

Well, UvA has an internal trial going for other services using
http://piwik.org/.  Then you own your own data.

Alan

On 12 August 2011 15:29, Liu, Peter <peter.liu at yale.edu> wrote:

> 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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