We have now added Google Analytics deep tracking for the Imagevue SWF gallery. It will be released shortly in a minor release, but if you want to try it already, just get the
latest SWF here.
Google Analytics will now track folder- and file views from your Imagevue SWF gallery. The results in your Analytics overview will simply display direct paths to the viewed content. Example:
/content/foldername/
/content/foldername/file.jpg
Keep in mind, unless you have disabled the Html gallery, Analytics will also track pages in the html gallery with the
? (question mark) character:
/?content/foldername/
/?content/foldername/file.jpg
We do have the option to change the tracking output, but we figured the most straight-forward solution would be to simply output the path to the file or folder being viewed. For example, we could add the SWFAddress #hashtag, so content would be listed like this:
/#/content/foldername/file.jpg
However, we do not see any reason why you would require the hashtags in your analytics. It is not like you will be clicking the links in your analytics ...
We were furthermore thinking of fixing so that the html gallery also reported direct paths without the ? mark, just to consolidate the analytics and make it irrelevant if the visitor is browsing through the html or swf version.
Comments / Suggestions ?