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Posts about analytics

Super simple Google Analytics for your Django projects

I just whipped together another really simple Django application I call django-google-analytics that simplifies the process of inserting Google Analytics tags into your Django projects. Why did I create this? I manage a lot of Django projects that present slightly-different forms to users depending on the site/domain they're visiting. There's also a bunch of custom submission code that differs from form to form, but that's neither here nor there. I need different Google Analytics codes depending on the sites and after sticking these tags into every single template, I thought it would be cool to be able to manage these ...

Posted on: 2008 July 07

Filed under: Django, Programming

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Analytics junkies

My friend, super-blogger, and fellow Arsian, Josh Bancroft has a really keen post about how he tracks the various metrics of his personal blog (which gets quite a good bit of traffic!). I will admit it too, I am an analytics junkie too and I use a lot of the same metrics and tools as Josh does to see what content is doing good and where I can make improvements on my site. This is another post that grew from an interesting conversation at work. We were discussing what site statistics/metrics are REALLY important to a blogger. That is, swimming ...

Web Applications I Use on a Daily Basis

I saw Michael Arrington post his list over on TechCrunch and since I have always been a proponent of using online tools over desktop applications to get things done. In the past year though, it has become even easier to make that transition. Whereas I swore off desktop mail clients years ago and went 100% Gmail, I just recently made the jump from NetNewsWire to Google Reader (mostly for the cool sharing support and persistence everywhere, including the fancy mobile interface for my iPod touch and Blackberry). So here's a list of all the online tools I use on a ...

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