Comments on: Google Analytics and WordPress: Measuring Category Popularity

By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:00:46 +0000

Ade,

I found a much better way to actually analyze categories utilizing Google Analytics campaigns. And, it won’t result in this mess!

One note, the method above is great for Ajax applications. You can actually put commands in your onclick events rather than your pages to follow users through your system.

Thanks for calling this to my attention! It made me dig a little deeper.

Doug

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By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:55:29 +0000

It’s true! I’m seeing that as we speak. I tend not to track page views as much as visitts so it doesn’t bother me too much. However, I’m going to do some more digging and see if I can eliminate the duplication and pass multiple variables in a call.

I’m also trying to see how I can combine this with the conversion data from adsense to see what the most ‘profitable’ categories are.

More to come!

By: Ade

Ade — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:36:46 +0000

This is very cool Doug. I had no idea you could tweak it like that. So I started digging further….

Looking at the example on this help page it seems like each call to urchinTracker() represents a new page view. So with your code in your post (and in the HTML of your site) it looks like you’re counting a page view per category for just one view.

Let me know if that doesn’t seem right to you. I just don’t want you ending up like those you describe at http://www.douglaskarr.com/2007/06/07/cookie-deletions/