Working with Google Analytics

Rajat_Garg · 26 March 2008 00:33

Hi Guys,

Thanks for your help earlier.

My company, Pilotoutlook.com is close on the heels of launching our first
APIs - AirportLookup (shameless plug - it is going to be the largest Airport
DB)
and I want to track the requests coming in through Google Analytics.

My idea is that if somehow, I can call Urchin JS in the background (from
controller), I should be able to register it as a visit.

Note that we are rendering XML as the output of the controller and also, I
don't want to add ~300ms to every response (so some asynchronous call will
be great)

Is this a possibility or am I smoking pot? If so, how do I do it?

I know we can do using log parsing but it is just too many places to look
for the data at that point of time.

Please let me know

Thanks,

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Eric_Tucker · 26 March 2008 01:13

You're going to need to make the call from the client IP, and unless you require that front end code from your side runs in the end user's browser that won't happen. You might try something like the site statistics gem and perhaps customize it for your needs. Granted, google Analytics is way cooler. However, storing your own log data depending on your storage capabilities might actually open you up to more analysis potential later.
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From: "Rajat Garg" <rajat79@gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:33:15
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Subject: Working with Google Analytics