New extension: Google Analytics Panel

neostructuralist - this is a problem with the GA API unfortunately. It reports visits to www.domain.com and domain.com separately, even though the Analytics UI reports combine them. IMO this is a bug. I’ve posted about it on the the API Group, and will see if I get any response from the team.

However, I would suggest using some .htaccess magic to prevent users from visiting your site at www.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks for the info, D-Rock. Hope they fix it. I do some redirects of non-www to www on sites so this issue then I believe would not show up on those sites.

In this case, the site is already a third level domain, and I did not have a rewrite rule yet. I tried your mod rewrite for www to non-www on my .htaccess file, but it did not work. So tried a different approach and also removed the domain name from the cond/rule. This one worked for me.

# redirect all www to non-www
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

Alternatively, if one wants to redirect the other way, all non-www to www, for their site, this one has worked for me in the past.

# redirect all non-www to www
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www..*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]*).(com)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1.%2%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Think both respect third-level domains too.

I just pushed an update to GitHub which should resolve the duplicate page listings in the Top Content listing. neostructuralist, let me know if this works out for you?

Works like a charm! Tested it on two sites. Thanks for the update, D-Rock.

Feature Idea: I dunno if this is possible, but would be really cool:

I want to show most popular entries on pages, but that means I need to use the track_views EE feature. Problem is that I cache the entries pages for performance. When you cache, the track_views doesn’t work, so I can’t show the most popular entries. :(

Any way to use the google analytics data so I can show my most popular content based on that analytics data?

I’m thinking like once a day the analytics page views for each EE entry is stored in a database table. Would need to somehow hook that data up so you can use it in an entries tag like:

orderby=”most_pageviews_according_to_google_analytics”

GREAT EXT!! it rocks!!!!

one question - can you change the order of the cp? i want the GA panel on my top left.

one question - can you change the order of the cp? i want the GA panel on my top left.

I don’t know if there’s a direct link to it, but you can go to My Account > Customize Control Panel > Control Panel Homepage and click “Update”. This take you to the page where you re-order what’s on the page.

antonys - that’s an interesting idea, but a whole other extension I’m afraid. BTW, track_views is only compromised if you use template caching. Tag caching (cache=”yes” refresh=”1440”) doesn’t interfere with track_views.

therooster - use the big green “Set Order” button on the My Account ->Control Panel Homepage screen.

therooster - use the big green “Set Order” button on the My Account ->Control Panel Homepage screen.

Wow, yet another big green button I never looked at. Didn’t know it was there haha

thx. i really didn’t see it!

D-Rock,

Updated to latest version (v1.1.2) and it reset (cleared) all the settings. Was that suppose to happen?

Cheers

Peter

Peter - if you were upgrading from 1.0.X, then yes, it should have reset your settings. The MSM-support introduced in 1.1 meant a new settings schema.

Fair enough - just checking 😊 Thanks

First off, a note of love: awesome, awesome, sweet as…

Secondly, a bit of pain. I’ve just battled with my crummy server turning on PHP5 as a CGI script and then finding out that I also had to hack the index.php file to force query strings. I’m now running:

– PHP 5.2.11 – cURL support enabled – allow_url_fopen Off Off

However, when I go to input my a GA login details in the extension’s screen I’m returned with a choke:

Warning: include(/path/to/system/extensions/ext.Analytics_panel.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /path/to/systems/cp/cp.utilities.php on line 395

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '/path/to/system/extensions/ext.Analytics_panel.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php5') in /path/to/system/cp/cp.utilities.php on line 395

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /path/to/system/cp/cp.utilities.php:395) in /path/to/system/core/core.functions.php on line 296

I’m guessing that it’s got something to do with my server’s lack of PATH_INFO support. Any clues.

(Again, it’s a real beauty when it does work)

UPDATE: Ignore me. I’m running 1.6.4 which is most likely the cause.