April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
15h 52m
English
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326 GOOGLE APPS HACKS
The goal: a most
popular posts widget
HaCK 135:
No Google Analytics API? No problem!
If you’re like me, you have a blog and use Google Analytics to track visitor activity. Also, you might
want a “Most Popular Posts” section on your blog, shown in Figure 12-9, as it’s a great way for new
visitors to nd your best content. The only problem is that this would usually have to be hard-coded,
and would therefore need updating periodically after you’ve checked the Top Content report in
Google Analytics, or it would require some server-side scripting and a database to track your page
views and show the links dynamically.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could somehow use Google Analytics to display the “Most Popular
Posts” section on your blog automatically? That would be a huge time-saver for you and would
make it much more useful for your visitors, as it would always be up-to-date. Unfortunately, Google
Analytics doesn’t have an API for that at the time of this writing (there’s the Analytics tracker
snippet API, but it’s for another purpose). But here’s a method that doesn’t involve any server-side
code or screen-scraping. All you need to do is use a few existing free services from Google and
Yahoo! and a bit of JavaScript.
The hack used here will make some of your Analytics data public, a trade-off ...
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.