tracking users who are downloading articles

[ushasharma84]

Hi
We want to track users country and biography who are downloading our article. Article download is possible only after one is signed in that journal. so can u give me some pointers regarding that to produce a report of users country and biography field included with downloading counter.Thanks in advance.Looking for a prompt reply.

[jmacgreg]

Hi ushasharma84,

OJS doesn't currently support that kind of functionality, so for the time being you may want to look at using Google Analytics or Awstats or some similar application to comprehensively track site visitors. We are currently developing more comprehensive statistical report plugins, and tracking location will be a part of this work, but it may be a while before these new plugins are released.

Cheers,
James

[ushasharma84]

hi
I have enabled google analytics plugin. while creating google analytics account it gave me a code which i m pasting
<script type="text/javascript">

var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-19859043-1']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();

</script>

Now in google analytics plugin setting it is asking for a number and it has been written in the setting page that For new tracking code, the account number is displayed within the tracking code as: var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("###"). but I cannot see this var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker in the tracking code I have pasted above.so I pated my Account Id that is ''UA-19859043' in account no. is it right? or do I need to change the settings. From where can I get this Account Id?
Thanks in advance.

[jmacgreg]

Hi ushasharma84,

That should be right -- but of course, the best way to confirm this is to test it.

Cheers,
James

[ushasharma84]

hi
Thanks for the prompt reply.
I have tested it and it is working fine. Now as per my requirement for tracking users who are downloading pdfs, I Hvae searched the analytics and found there, that i need to add the following attribute onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/downloads/map'); for anchor tag of the pdf file which is being downloaded.i need to track pdf download of all articles not a single one. so I want to know where exactly i need to put this code to make it working.u can refer to article http://www.google.com/support/analytics ... swer=55529 to better understand the problem.
Thanks in advance

[ushasharma84]

hi
I searched google and found a java script code that tracks all downloaded files. I am attaching the code file with this. It has been written there that I need to place this file on all pages just above the Google Analytics tracking code.So I want to know where exactly i need to put it and should I use this code.
Thanks in advance.

[jmacgreg]

Hi ushasharma84,

You can modify the Google Analytics code by editing the correct tpl file in plugins/general/googleAnalytics -- either PageTagGa.tpl or PageTagUrchin.tpl, depending on which method you are using.

Cheers,
James

[nevermind182004]

hi! i would like to ask if you're able to track the downloaded files in ojs... i wish u could post here how u did it if ever.. thanks in advance!

[jayfitzsimmons]

Hello,

I am having trouble enabling the Google Analytics plugin on my OJS site (version 2.2.4). I don't think this is a bug - it's just my own incompetence. Could someone please suggest what I should do?

WHAT I'VE DONE SO FAR:
I enabled the GA plugin as journal manager, and changed the settings to specify the account number. It is an urchin.js legacy tracking code based on the UA- prefix to my GA account number. On the Google Analytics website I modified the website profile settings appropriately (I think).

WHAT I HAVEN'T DONE BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO:
The GA website shows me some text it tells me to paste into my web files. But I don't know what file(s) to paste this information into. Based on some of the above posts in this forum, I'm assuming I should paste the information into plugins/general/googleAnalytics -- PageTagUrchin.tpl. But when I open that file I see the following information already there, so I don't know which part of it I should paste overtop of:

{**
* pageTagUrchin.tpl
*
* Copyright (c) 2003-2009 John Willinsky
* Distributed under the GNU GPL v2. For full terms see the file docs/COPYING.
*
* Google Analytics urchin.js (legacy) page tag.
*
* $Id: pageTagUrchin.tpl,v 1.2.2.1 2009/04/08 19:43:16 asmecher Exp $
*}
<!-- Google Analytics -->
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "{$googleAnalyticsSiteId|escape}";
urchinTracker();
</script>
<!-- /Google Analytics -->

Thank you in advance to anyone who can suggest what I should do.
Jay

[michael]

Hi Jay,

There's no need to paste in anything. Simply enable the GA plugin in OJS and in the plugin settings, enter your GA account information. Please note that GA can take up to 24 hours before it will report that it's correctly tracking your site.

Cheers,
Michael

[jayfitzsimmons]

Thanks for the clarification Michael.

I found out why simply entering my Google Analytics account info into the Google Analytics Plugin Settings wasn't working for me. It's working now, so here's how I fixed it in case anyone else makes the same mistakes as me.

In the GA Plugin Settings, it seems I had entered two things wrong. Which is remarkable considering there's only one simple field. First, I entered only the numbers of my account number (e.g., 21433302-1); what I should have entered was the full account number with letters prefix (UA-21433302-1). Second, I selected "Legacy tracking code (urchin.js)" thinking that the UA prefix of my account somehow stood for urchin; what I should have selected was "New tracking code (ga.js)", which I figured out by editing my settings within the Google Analytics website and seeing the html code that had things like "ga.type", "ga.async" and "ga"-dot-other stuff ... I don't see any ga.js, but with all these other ga-dot-stuff I figured my account was probably New tracking code.

Between fixing the two of those mistakes my analytics seem to be working now. There is a pleasant green checkmark under "Status" now, instead of an error sign. I hope this helps anyone else who had problems like me. I'd suggest that in future OJS versions the example account numbers include letter prefixes if most accounts are like mine and have these letters, and the ga.js include some information that helps novice users figure out what kind of Google Analytics they're running.

Jay