Google Analytics 0.5

**carlo75** · 11-24-2009, 03:41 PM

Google Analytics
Version: 0.5
Author: Carlo Armanni
Created on: 2009/11/24
Last Updated: 2011/03/29
Tested on: Hotaru 1.0.5 ~ 1.4.2
Plugins Required: None
Plug & Play: Yes
Supported: Yes

Description
This plugin allow you to add Google Analytics tracking code to Hotaru, in a simple way. This plugin doesn't count the visits made by user with Admin right (admin permissions)

Instructions
1. Upload the "google_analytics" folder to your plugins folder. Install it from Plugin Management in Admin.
2. Access it from the Admin sidebar
3. Enter your Web property ID provided from Google Ananlytics and save.

Revision History
v.0.5 2011/03/29 - Carlo - Updated GA code and added control for Admin permission
v.0.4 2010/08/30 - Carlo - Updated hook, to correct snippet in insert <head> tag
v.0.3 2010/08/27 - Carlo - Updated for new GA Snippet Code
v.0.2 2009/12/18 - Nick - Updated for Hotaru 1.0
v.0.1 2009/11/24 - Carlo - Released first version

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**Nick** · 11-24-2009, 04:16 PM

Excellent work Carlo. A great choice for your first plugin!

**angolanmade** · 11-24-2009, 08:34 PM

Awesome stuff. How much different/difficult would be to change this plugin to work with Piwik, open source web analytics software that aims to be an alternative to Google analytics.

**carlo75** · 11-25-2009, 07:01 AM

@Nick
Thank you so much... you are the grand master

@angolanmade
I don't know how Piwik works, but if it's use tracking code like Google Analytics, I think there are no big problems... please let me know.

**angolanmade** · 11-26-2009, 01:41 AM

Take a look at this, i have version installed which im able to access my token_auth ID.

http://dev.piwik.org/trac

**Nick** · 11-26-2009, 03:08 AM

Do I need to use PHP on my websites to use Piwik?

You will need a server with PHP to run Piwik. However, the tracking code is a simple JavaScript tag, which can be added to any webpage written in Python, Jsp, ASP, .NET, etc.
For example, the same instance of Piwik can track data from a PHP website, a simple HTML website and a complex JSP application, simply by copy and pasting the JavaScript tag into the desired pages.

Code:

<!-- Piwik -->
<script type="text/javascript">
var pkBaseURL = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://{$PIWIK_URL}" : "http://{$PIWIK_URL}");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + pkBaseURL + "piwik.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script><script type="text/javascript">
try {
var piwikTracker = Piwik.getTracker(pkBaseURL + "piwik.php", {$IDSITE});
piwikTracker.trackPageView();
piwikTracker.enableLinkTracking();
} catch( err ) {}
</script>
<!-- End Piwik Tag -->

http://piwik.org/docs/javascript-tracking/

**carlo75** · 11-26-2009, 08:35 AM

Need to manage $IDSITE
no problem on that, when for $PIWIK_URL can be retrieved from global of Hotaru BASEURL while for https need a little string manipulation

**Gunaxin** · 03-19-2010, 03:40 AM

I know this was a relatively simple plugin, but I was wondering if you might be interested in updating with new functionality. Specifically I'd suggest Event Tracking for outgoing clicks. Its great to measure traffic on your site with Google Analytics, but tracking how much outgoing traffic you are sending to other websites is crucial as well.

See this link from Google on a method to do this :

http://www.google.com/support/google...c=cb&lev=index

In their example they track to www.example.com, which would obviously need to be some php to pull the proper domain name. Having this tracked / summarized by domain would be more beneficial than just by link, but I'm not sure if their is currently a field / variable for that.

Any chance I could encourage you to give this a shot? The toughest part is putting the onclick on all of the outgoing links. I'm not sure how you would do that without manually modifying all plugins which have them.

**carlo75** · 03-19-2010, 07:06 AM

Hi Gunaxin,
thank you for your suggest, I'll try to play with the plugin, and add this new function... althought atm I prefer increase new themes for HotaruCMS

**Gunaxin** · 03-26-2010, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by carlo75

Hi Gunaxin,
thank you for your suggest, I'll try to play with the plugin, and add this new function... althought atm I prefer increase new themes for HotaruCMS

In order for this option to work properly, its best to send Google Analytics just the domain that the traffic is going to, not the entire URL. I'm not sure if there is currently a field for this, but I'd love to actually be able to display that on my page as well. Maybe Nick knows?

I'd probably be willing to sponsor development of this tracking functionality, as its fairly important to me. Let me know if someone is interested in undertaking it. Thanks.