We supply educators with a publication mechanism for their work, and as such those educators have an interest in tracking the usage of the published works.
At the moment the "legacy connexions" has two metadata fields (Google Analytics Tracking code field) in both the module and collections data.
When a module is viewed at its home page (say the CCAP physics book) we have included tracking javascript for account UA-7903479-1
Similarly a collection that uses that module will have a tracking code.
By default we put tracking code UA-7903479-1 (cnx) and UA-5033010-1 (hewlett) into everything.
It is not clear if we do or do not track non-HTML use - for example so we fire a google-analytics API event when a pdf or ePub is downloaded. This may well become a new story.
gaq - google analytics (its the short form in _gaq.push in their own javascript)
This requires a gaq script snippet to be placed into every HTML document by default (covering cnx and hewlett) It also requires a snippet to be placed in the appropriate documnet should a googe analytics code exist in the module or collections record.
We shall need to update the dbase, python code and the backbone model client side and ensure they are testable.
We shall also need to add gaq to the UI code for the MetaData tab
The webview will need to be able to inject the below code or similar into outgoing HTML documnets based on a lookup against the dbase fields refered to above.
If we see webview as sensible place to inject this then a sensible place to store tracking codes is at the user level - they just add once and it is applied always. This impacts a number of assumptions about publication and ownership so may be needing deeper discussion.
:discuss:`Do we inject on HTML serving or regularly update stored HTML and serve quicker`
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
function trackthisGoogleAnalytics(strCode) {
try {
_gaq.push(['user._setAccount', strCode]);
_gaq.push(['user._trackPageview']);
}
catch(err) {}
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7903479-1']);
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', '.cnx.org']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
_gaq.push(['hewlett._setAccount', 'UA-5033010-1']);
_gaq.push(['hewlett._setDomainName', '.cnx.org']);
_gaq.push(['hewlett._trackPageview']);
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" id="user-google-analytics" user="UA-30227798-1">
var thisElement;
var codeGoogleAnalytics;
thisElement = document.getElementById("user-google-analytics");
if ( thisElement ) {
strGoogleAnalyticsTrackingCode = thisElement.getAttribute('user');
if ( strGoogleAnalyticsTrackingCode ) {
trackthisGoogleAnalytics(strGoogleAnalyticsTrackingCode);
}
}
</script>