Analytics.js
Languages and libraries
analytics library
SHOW HN2012
326points
67comments
#31of 1,677 in 2012
Top 2%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
4 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 11 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score -0.16.
Idea: 3 for, 7 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful library that helps analytics services work together
From 3 comments
Great library! I know that a number of companies have created a wrapper of their own exactly for this purpose. We could contribute integration to https://bitdeli.com for those…
vtuulos on HNHappy to be supporting this project at http://customer.io . A lot of folks who use other tools want it to be easier to send the same information to everyone. Thanks guys for…
sudonim on HNAwesome, I was thinking of writing something like this, but you took the idea and made it much more powerful than i was planning.
spaetzel on HN
Objections
Mapping a generic event API onto providers like Google Analytics is lossy
From 2 comments
This is a cool idea for a project! The closest equivalent I'm aware of is Qubit OpenTag (https://github.com/QubitProducts/OpenTag). I'm interested in adding SnowPlow support to…
alexdean on HNIt's going to be really hard to make a generic, non-lossy mapping in a static, stateless JS script. Have you looked at Google's dataLayer as an alternative yet? The setup guide…
alexatkeplar on HN
Script loads provider code even when unused and blocks onload
From 2 comments
How does this script impact the performance of a site? Specifically... 1. It includes code to load up various analytics tools even if you never use them. For example, if I only…
bluesmoon on HN> It includes code to load up various analytics tools even if you never use them. For example, if I only use GA and Mixpanel, do I really want to serve the bytes for all the…
Hovertruck on HN
Requests
Build step that includes only the providers a site uses
From 2 comments
Thanks for sharing. A useful improvement could be a build step that supplies only the metrics snippets that I want so I don't need to deliver to clients provider code I'll never…
rossta on HNHow does this script impact the performance of a site? Specifically... 1. It includes code to load up various analytics tools even if you never use them. For example, if I only…
bluesmoon on HN
Support for Omniture
From 1 comment
If this covered Omniture I'd be over the moon...
donohoe on HN
Screenshots showing how examples appear in each analytics app
From 1 comment
This looks awesome! One thing would be nice on the demo/landing site is to maybe add screenshots of how your examples translate in Google Analytics or the others. Like karolisd…
bluetidepro on HN
Questions
How event properties translate to Google Analytics
From 2 comments
For event tracking, how does analytics.track('Purchased an Item', { price : 39.95, shippingMethod : '2-day' }); translate to Google Analytics? _gaq.push(['...? How many…
karolisd on HNThe Google Analytics provider doesn't send properties for events. The only thing the GA API providers that's even close is a "Label" which is just a string. The idea is to get as…
ianstormtaylor on HN
How to call methods before the script finishes loading
From 2 comments
How does this script impact the performance of a site? Specifically... 1. It includes code to load up various analytics tools even if you never use them. For example, if I only…
bluesmoon on HNFor the last question, all of the providers are initialized just like they would be normally, so GA's queue is setup already and it will just be routed the track calls.
ianstormtaylor on HN
Alternatives named
Qubit OpenTag
From 1 comment
This is a cool idea for a project! The closest equivalent I'm aware of is Qubit OpenTag (https://github.com/QubitProducts/OpenTag). I'm interested in adding SnowPlow support to…
alexdean on HN
Piwik
From 1 comment
You're looking for Piwik (http://piwik.org/), which is awesome.
smacktoward on HN
Snowplow
From 1 comment
We're more of an opensource complement to GA (rather than alternative), but for completeness: https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow
alexatkeplar on HN
Google Tag Manager
From 2 comments
Three words: Google Tag Manager.
novaleaf on HNThere's also Google Tag Manager. It's not itself an analytics script, but it provides a clean way to separate tags from code (one tag to rule them all). In addition, it's…
Nagyman on HN
Open Web Analytics
From 1 comment
there is always: http://www.openwebanalytics.com/
noinput on HN