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Member	Rich - 7/23/2012 9:25:26 AM User Analytics Hello, Is it possible to generate an Analytics report in Kentico that shows which users have downloaded particular PDF documents? If Kentico is not capable of logging this, are there any similar third-party tools? Many thanks, Rich

Certified Developer 8

Jiveabillion - 7/23/2012 10:16:33 AM

RE:User Analytics

I have done this using google analytics and a little javascript.

Google analytics exposes some functions you can use to make it track certain things as a page view. Here is a snippet I used to attach an event listener to links that I've marked with the CSS class 'track' added to it.


(function(){
jQuery('a.track').each(function(){
var l = this;
jQuery(l).bind('click',function(){
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', jQuery(this).attr('href')]);
});

});
})();

Modify it to suit your needs.


Member	Rich - 7/23/2012 10:23:57 AM RE:User Analytics Hi Jiveabillion, Thanks for your feedback. I can see that this would track the page views at the given URL, and I have also used Google Event tracking on PDFs before, however this wouldn't show which Kentico user had clicked the link. I guess this functionality isn't available built in. Thanks, Rich


Certified Developer 8	Jiveabillion - 7/23/2012 2:00:38 PM RE:User Analytics You could maybe append the current username as a querystring parameter to the href value in the javascript. You could export data from google analytics and write some code to parse it out. I don't think it's built-in to Kentico, but I could be wrong.

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kentico_jurajo - 7/24/2012 1:44:57 AM

RE:User Analytics

Hi,

It is not built in - usually the wanted reports are about the number of downloaded files and not who downloaded it.

I agree with the above query string approach.
Also, you can edit the CMSPages/getfile.aspx.cs code to add to the URL the user name and store the value using custom code and then create a report.

Best regards,
Juraj Ondrus

Member

Gareth - 10/10/2013 12:36:06 PM

RE:User Analytics

Hello there,

I have just started using Google Analytics (GA) on our Kentico site and everything works well... except the event tracking. I've pretty much done all that there is to do but GA still isn't tracking the events. This is what I've placed in CMS Desk:

<script type="text/javascript">

  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-********-*']); 
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

  (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
  })();

</script>

I think I also posted this on my master page and my two-column template.

and the links look like this:

<a href="/Documents/Practice-Support-Documents/Scope-of-Practice-ONLINE.aspx" onClick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'PolicyPractice', 'Click', 'Scope of Practice Document']);"> Scope of Practice for Licensed Practical Nurses</a>

I'm quite new to coding, so please bear with me.

Thank you

Member

kentico_sandroj - 10/11/2013 8:54:05 PM

RE:User Analytics

Hello,

In case anyone else is facing this issue, our suggestion was to replace the above referenced script with the following:

<script type="text/javascript">
function trackOutboundLink(link, category, action) {
 
try {
_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', category , action]);
} catch(err){}
 
setTimeout(function() {
document.location.href = link.href;
}, 100);
}
</script>