You should try Asynchronous Google Analytics. It loads GA in the background, so the rest of the content on the page is not blocked from rendering: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTracking.html Additionally, since you first asked this question, Google has upgraded their serving infrastructure. It’s now faster, and much more reliable than it was in 2008. For most sites, … Read more
I’m aware that this question is pretty old, but it’s look like Google Analytics is finally available for general use via it’s Measurement Protocol. So, that’s the most ‘official’ way to use Google Analytics for desktop (or any other ‘generic’) apps now.
Google Analytics now offers an Events Flow Report, in which you can see how users “navigate” through the different events you have configured, but that’s probably not what you are looking for. If you want a “real” funnel report in Google Analytics, currently you can’t use Events, they are only available for Destination/URL goals. A … Read more
Heatmap analytics turns out to be WAY more complicated than just capturing the cursor coordinates. Some websites are right-aligned, some are left-aligned, some are 100%-width, some are fixed-width-“centered”… A page element can be positioned absolutely or relatively, floated etc. Oh, and there’s also different screen resolutions and even multi-monitor configurations. Here’s how it works in … Read more
That isn’t how you set parameters in xgboost. You would either want to pass your param grid into your training function, such as xgboost’s train or sklearn’s GridSearchCV, or you would want to use your XGBClassifier’s set_params method. Another thing to note is that if you’re using xgboost’s wrapper to sklearn (ie: the XGBClassifier() or … Read more
Humans and bots will do similar things, but bots will do things that humans don’t. Let’s try to identify those things. Before we look at behavior, let’s accept RayQuang’s comment as being useful. If a visitor has a bot’s user-agent string, it’s probably a bot. I can’t image anybody going around with “Google Crawler” (or … Read more
_ga=1.2.286403989.1366364567; 1st Field This is a versioning number. In case the cookie format changes in the future. Seems to be fixed at 1 at the moment. The one above is an old format. Newer cookies have this value set at “GA1” 2nd Field This field is used to figure out the correct cookie in case … Read more
Use Google Analytics hitCallback You can specify a custom callback function on the tracker object. _gaq.push([‘_set’, ‘hitCallback’, function(){}]); The callback is invoked after the “hit is sent successfully.” If you want to track a click on a submit button and send the form afterwards you can use the following code (uses jQuery) for your event: … Read more