[ckan-dev] Google Analytics -> Universal Analytics

Wed Dec 3 15:25:34 UTC 2014

Aaron,

Regarding compatibility of CKAN Google Analytics extensions with
Universal Analytics, there has been recent work on this by us at
data.gov.uk and Australia. We noted there were three things to ensure
compatibility:

1. snippet to notify GA of page load - ga.js or ideally analytics.js
2. snippet to send page events to GA - ga.js or ideally analytics.js
(has to match 1)
3. download data from GA - API version 3

Both extensions satisfy this: ckanext-ga-report and
ckanext-googleanalytics. See below for details.

David

ckanext-ga-report
https://github.com/datagovuk/ckanext-ga-report
As seen at http://data.gov.uk/data/site-usage
1. this is left to your config file
2. this is left to your templates
3. GA api v3 - compatible

ckanext-googleanalytics
https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-googleanalytics
See: https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-googleanalytics/commit/482d8e2adaa0a40e6abc3e92868b9cf777bd4ce1
1. analytics.js - compatible
2. analytics.js - compatible
3. GA api v3 - compatible

On 20 November 2014 at 21:14, Aaron McGlinchy
<McGlinchyA at landcareresearch.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi,
>   When Google deprecate Google Analytics (replacing it with their Universal Analytics), what will be the implications for CKAN and the Google Analytics extension?
> Thanks
> Aaron
>
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