GAget is a Mac OS X widget for anyone willing to see the important Google Analytics stats quickly and frequently.
It displays the number of visits, new visitors and bounces with a chic interface.
The widget is not limited to a single site and it is easy to switch between profiles (also, multiple instances can be used).
By default, Google Analytics doesn't track downloads and requires an event to be attached to each download link.
Entrourage.js lightweight (339 bytes gzipped) JavaScript solution that can automatically add tracking support for downloads.
It is framework agnostic, unobtrusive.and leaves the markup clean without requiring any inline JS usage.
There is also a filter provided which enables us to track only the selected file-types.
While using an analytics application, ability to analyze the funnel users go through to reach an event is a very valuable way for understanding users and improving leads.
Using Google Analytics, it is possible to get a report like:
by using many segments, filters and exporting data.
PadiTrack, a totally free application that can do this very easily for you.
It connects to your Google Analytics account (no tracking code required) and pulls the data automatically + instantly.
The greatest part of it is that segments can be applied to the funnels so you get to see how people converted from different traffic sources
Wix, the popular Flash CMS application, is giving away 3 Annual Unlimited Premium Accounts ($99 value/account) to WebResourcesDepot readers.
The details on joining the giveaway can be found at the bottom of this post. But before that:
Wix is a free website builder tool that makes creating nice Flash websites so easy for anyone whether you have or don't have experience in web design.
The websites created are search engine friendly and adding image galleries, videos or streaming music is a breeze.
It integrates tightly with Google Analytics and helps tracking every detail of the websites.
Wix lets you customize every page totally and there are lots of templates offered if you prefer to start with something already good-looking. Here are some screenshots of the websites build with it:
And, there are much more live examples provided in the Wix Directory.
The free website builder also offers an e-commerce store creator to start selling stuff instantly.
In order to win one of the Unlimited Premium accounts which has attractive features like:
it is enough to comment to this post and winners will be selected randomly with the query below on 8th of September 2010 (1 week later):
SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=1825 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3
Good luck to all.
A/B Testing is a great way for finding the better performing version of text, layouts, images, colors or any other element. in a website.
phpA/B is a free PHP script that enables you to setup A/B tests on your website so quickly.
It integrates automatically into your Google Analytics, allowing deeper insight into your tests’ impact on users.
The script can be run in trial mode to find out if the variations are working completely and, if it is, can be switched to live mode.
phpA/B also automatically filters search engine bots out of your tests to keep the data clean.
P.S. More on A/B Testing on Wikipedia.
SlimStat is an open source web analytics application that collects & presents statistics information about your website.
It is built with PHP-MySQL & can be integrated into websites with JavaScript (like Google Analytics) or PHP.
For the given period, the application can display:
There is also a "paths" feature that shows a user's browsing path page-by-page.
You may be asking, "why to use SlimStat instead of Google Analytics?" The best answer would be "live stats".
FeedBurner's popular chicklet FeedCount is the most-used way to display the number of subscribers for a feed.
Also, a similar design is used by TwitterCounter to display your Twitter followers.
We'll be creating a dynamic FeedCount-like interface that can display your website's statistics like pageviews, visits, etc. (one or all of them) using PHP.
For a website, gaining RSS subscribers requires hard work as visitors prefer to subscribe websites with fresh/quality content & expect this to be continious.
On the other hand, RSS subscribers are very valuable loyal readers which follow the website regularly.
So, for a website, it is very important to analyze "how visitors become RSS readers" like:
Google Analytics, besides all the simplicity it offers, has a very functional event tracking method for analyzing custom events which we will be using to track new RSS subscriptions and see how to analyzing them deeper.
There are currently 2 different versions of Google Analytics tracking code used:
The asynchronous tracking code has a major advantage over the standard version's event tracking which is: it will be able to track the clicks even if tha page is not fully loaded.
Codes for both versions will be mentioned.
Google Analytics has recently announced a new asynchronous tracking code that can "optionally" be replaced with the old one.
The new code does not block the website while it loads which will improve the loading times.
It also aims to provide more accurate results as it can be installed inside <head></head> tags (rather than before the </body> tag) and will be able to collect data from visitors that quit the webpage before it loads fully. This way, "any possible tracking errors from dependencies when the JavaScript not being fully loaded" are also eliminated.
More information can be found in the official announcement & the "Asynchronous Tracking Usage Guide".
There are several options for creating rounded corners like: with one image, four images, javascript and plain CSS (and more).
Ask The CSS Guy puts the CSS rounded corners used in Google Analytics under scrutiny.
The technique works by leaving a 1px notch in every corner which creates the rounded corner effect .
This is definitely a nice way of creating rounded corners as it is always more flexible working with CSS rather than static images.
