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Tracking Doc Views in the Live Preview World

#17

Is there any way that we can tally how many times the live preview link is clicked on a PDF or Word doc and sum that number with the total number of raw downloads? Now that we have the much-needed Live Preview, it's likely to be extremely popular and could cause the number of downloads to drop dramatically.

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Reported by WTG User · April 28th, 2010 @ 10:01 AM

State: resolved
Milestone: Flagship 2.2.1
Assigned to: Brian Michalski Brian Michalski

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  1. Brian Michalski
    Brian Michalski

    I actually don't expect the number of downloads to drop
    significantly. Unless Google is caching the document it's still being
    accessed, just by Google not the end user.

    It's probably a good idea to throw some analytics JS into the live
    preview JS to help distinguish the two sources of downloads.

    April 28th, 2010 @ 11:28 AM

  2. Brian Michalski
    Brian Michalski
    • State changed from new to open
    • Assigned user set to Brian Michalski

    (from [882e12dac0a8d86d749173b743bc2e6406f3beca]) Adding a handler to be used for tracking live previews, small bugfix in doc/show re: user names [#17 Tracking Doc Views in the Live Preview World state:open responsible:"Brian Michalski"] http://github.com/wtg/flagship_docs/commit/882e12dac0a8d86d749173b7...

    April 28th, 2010 @ 12:39 PM

  3. Brian Michalski
    Brian Michalski
    • Milestone set to Flagship 2.2.1
    • State changed from open to resolved

    I added the following code to gaq.push(['trackEvent', 'document', 'live_preview', '<%= @document.id %>']); to the studentsenate code. This isn't committed because not everyone uses Google Analytics....

    April 28th, 2010 @ 04:15 PM

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