topic Google Analytics fails to report many visits for Flex Viewer. in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

Google Analytics Code?

TimothyGoddard — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:23:10 GMT

Does anyone know if and/how you could place Google Analytics code for a flex viewer application to track usage?

Tim

Re: Google Analytics Code?

SteveWhitehead__GISP — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:36:23 GMT

Yes, I have put it in the index.html and is seems to be working.

Re: Google Analytics Code?

xanderm — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:41:37 GMT

Steve-

Can you explain how this is done? Are you using Google Analytics Tracking for Adobe Flash?

Thanks.

Re: Google Analytics Code?

SteveWhitehead__GISP — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:48:31 GMT

No, it's just the google analytics code inserted into the html. It just tracks the usage on the main entry page.

Here are some previous discussions on tracking usage on the application

http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/17972-google-analytics-and-flexviewer-2.1

Steve

Re: Google Analytics Code?

MarkHoyland — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:22:52 GMT

Hi there,I just put together a widget for google anaytics.
This may be of interest to you.
http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/27724-GoogleAnalyticsWidget-for-FlexViewer-2.2

Google Analytics fails to report many visits for Flex Viewer.

DavidWheelock — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:45:06 GMT

To Mark Hoyland, et. al.,

Google Analytics fails to report a great deal of the traffic on my Flex Viewer site.

I've had the Google Analytics HTML snippet installed in my Flex Viewer site for more than a year. I have it installed in the Index.html file, but not in the MXML or AS3 files, yet. It shows many visits and shows the time of some visits as lasting many minutes.

However, quite often, when I check the reverse-proxy server logs, I can see visits of several minutes duration or longer which don't show up at all in the Google Analytics reports or which show up as a 0 or 1 second visit.

Questions:

Would installing the MXML or AS3 code in the my viewer cause these mystery visits to show up properly?

Is there some sort of deliberate or unintentional blocking by some networks or users that occurs that prevents activity from being reported to Google Analytics?

Please respond with any information you have to offer.

Best regards,
David Wheelock
Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry

Re: Google Analytics fails to report many visits for Flex Viewer.

MarkHoyland — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:18:23 GMT

To Mark Hoyland, et. al.,

Google Analytics fails to report a great deal of the traffic on my Flex Viewer site.

David, I cant really answer that as I just use the tools provided by Google.
I think these are questions that you would need to ask Google Analytics support or a Google Analytics forum.

Here is a link to the Google Analytics support page, There is a forum on that page as well.
http://www.google.com/analytics/support.html

You could try the AS3 Google Analytics code and monitor the tracking.
If you are still not getting the result you need then you might have to look at a commercial product to track your site usage (i do not know what is available).

Re: Google Analytics Code?

PaulSpahr — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:17:33 GMT

Hello,

Does the Google Analytics Widget work with the flex 2.4 viewer?

Thanks,
Paul