Re: Tracking within Flash

On 10 Jul, 2007, at 10:32, Zeh Fernando wrote:

>>     Hi all. What methods do people use to track
visitors'  
>> movements within a Flash piece? Anyway to see how
many visitors,  
>> which sections they went to, etc., the same way you
can track HTML  
>> pages.
>
> I use Google Analytics. Because you can do JS calls to
register  
> certain 'pages', it's possible to build a stat system
around your  
> interface, including areas visited, buttons clicked,
rolled-over  
> items, and that kind of stuff. It's all a matter of
planning well  
> the hypothetical hierarchy, but works very well once
it's in place.
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http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/an
swer.py? 
answer=55520&topic=11006

Looks promising. Guess this way you'd get the analysis power
behind  
their tool, rather than writing to your own DB or whatever
and trying  
to decipher it.
	And do I understand correctly that the basic level is
free?

	Now, I just have to figure out if it is possible to add
these calls  
to the fCMS code, since that's what calls all the screens
within a  
section. Is easy to add to my code to go to the various
sections like  
Portfolio, Bios, Services, etc. But the tool is what loads
up the  
info for the various Portfolio pieces within that section.
So could  
see that 200 people went to Portfolio, but no idea which
pieces they  
checked out within it.


George Langley

http://www.georgelangley.
ca

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> http://www.google.com/su
pport/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55520&topic=1
1006 

That's exactly the page that explains it.

> Looks promising. Guess this way you'd get the analysis
power behind 
> their tool, rather than writing to your own DB or
whatever and trying to 
> decipher it.
>     And do I understand correctly that the basic level
is free?

Well, everything there is free, isn't it? I don't think
there's a level 
that is paid. Maybe they have some kind of pro/premium
service attached 
to it, like someone will come and setup your website to work
with GA for 
you, but I don't know. I've never stumbled upon absolutely
any 
limitation (other than the maximum number of sites attached
to your GA 
account) so I think it's free as default.

For HTML websites I do prefer real log analyzers - some
stuff like full 
querystring listing for referrals isn't done by Google
Analytics, so if 
you get links from forums and you want to see the referrals
you're 
screwed - but for flash-based websites, GA is the way.


Zeh
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