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A couple months ago I wrote an article on how to use Dojo to create a rich UI for websites. One of the key points of the article was how to support all users -- those with JavaScript enabled and those without. The purpose of this was to enable basic browsers like search engine spiders to go through your site without JavaScript, while enabling the rich interface for your regular users.
This article will focus initially on the strategies behind web analytics in RIAs and afterward will provide you with some resources to get started adding web analytics to your applications and interpreting the results. Web analytics: What's the big deal?...
Inspired by the initial returns of this weeks poll, I have decided to open source a new Flex library for Google Event Tracking that I have been working on and host it at http://code.google.com/p/riatrax/.
If you have used Google Analytics to monitor and analyze traffic on a website, you were most likely impressed with the ability it gave you to understand the nature of visits to and exits from the site, learn how visitors found it, discover how much time people spent there, et cetera. Recently, the Google Analytics team announced the availability of an open source, native AS3 API that enables you to utilize Google Analytics (GA) tracking from within your RIA.
Robert Hoekman Jr is dispelling some common myths in the world of web analytics. The first part of the article regarding hits vs page view vs visitors will likely be old news to most readers of this blog and RIA developers in general. This is still very valuable for most folks out there and worth the read. Towards the end of the article Robert makes a great point that page views for RIAs have become almost irrelevant.
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