Google Analytics supports Flash event tracking
Google Analytics, the newly-free web-page stats tracking service has a support page detailing how to track Flash events. No special magic required, the Javascript just needs to be embedded in the HTML page before making a getURL Javascript calls to the 'urchinTracker' function with an identifier for the event. The event id needs to start with a '/'.
This could be helpful for making Flash applications more usuable - Flash developers tend to have less of an idea of how users interact with their Flash applications than website developers - simply because tracking HTTP requests has always been very well supported, but the interaction that goes on within a Flash movie delivered to a user has usually stayed on the user's computer.
Posted by Alexander at November 18, 2005 01:17 AM
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Wow and i was just about to implement this myself with php/mysql... This saves me a lot of work! Thanks for the tip!
Now all we have to do is wait for the Analytics site to start working again :)
Posted by: asji at November 18, 2005 02:53 AM
This works great if you don't mind button-clicks registering as pageviews. Haven't tried the service out yet, but what would be nice is a way of separating out pages and other custom events. That way you can find out what buttons are pressed on what pages, the total number of clicks of a certain button, how many people click button A on a page and click button B on the following page, etc.
And what would REALLY be nice is some non-js (i,e. webservice or xml socket based solution) to directly send usage statistics to the server. Keeping my eyes peeled...
Posted by: mray at November 18, 2005 03:25 AM
I wanted to ask you this: does the 'navigation summary' report capture the transition from one page to another via a link within flash?
Posted by: Theo Papadakis at December 17, 2007 12:55 PM
