The Arcive of Official vBulletin Modifications Site.

Digital Point Better Analytics · **Released**: 09-14-2011

About
This allows you to utilize Google Analytics with some advanced options

Installation

Install the product-digitalpoint_analytics.xml product under AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product
Go to AdminCP -> Settings -> Options -> Digital Point Better Analytics to set your Google Analytics Profile ID.
Important - In order for site search tracking to work, log into your Google Analytics account and edit your site profile. On the Profile Settings tab, set the Site Search Settings to track, with the query parameter set to "keywords" (without quotes).
Remove any other Google Analytics code you may already have.

Notes

Tracks across multiple sub-domains (in case your site is setup as such).
Utilizes Page Speed tracking/reporting.
Tracks social interactions for Facebook, Twitter and Google +1 buttons if you have them on your site.
Tracks site search (what people are searching for within your own site).
Requires no template edits or files to upload.
External JavaScript is compressed and utilizes Cache-Control headers to eliminate HTTP requests.

Screenshots

digitalpoint · #32 10-07-2011, 07:42 AM

If you strip query parameters, you essentially are telling Google Analytics to strip the keywords from the URL (which really are virtual anyway). The way vBulletin search URLs work, it doesn't give any useful info either way really. But if you were drilling down to individual pages, if you strip keywords, it would look like so:

Without stripping the keywords, those pages would instead look like:

/search.php?searchid=4771051&keywords=searching+for +something

Hopefully that makes more sense...

Either way, drilling down to searchid=1234 is rather useless imo since the searchid is unique only to a single user and a single search.

charlesr · #33 10-08-2011, 12:20 PM

Thanks dude. Makes sense.

charlesr · #34 10-11-2011, 07:27 PM

Where on GA do I see all the new options? I'm sure I'm being daft, but I can't find anything like the screenshots above - it all looks normal. I've checked and all previous GA code has been removed and hits are still being tracked so it's at least working that much. I've done the site search settings to track + keywords.

digitalpoint · #35 10-11-2011, 08:19 PM

Make sure you are in the new version of the Analytics interface...

cwmateiuc · #36 10-11-2011, 10:19 PM

okay, so I have mysite then I have forum.mysite, I have analytics installed on the site without a sub domain, if I install this version to the vbulletin forum.mysite will that interfere with the other analyrics?

digitalpoint · #37 10-11-2011, 10:51 PM

It shouldn't interfere with anything on a different sub-domain (or root domain).

charlesr · #38 10-12-2011, 08:16 AM

Ah thanks - hadn't spotted the new GA version option

All working great!

Devanand · #39 11-13-2011, 10:43 AM

So if I am using GA with VBSeo, I should remove it?

digitalpoint · #40 11-13-2011, 07:43 PM

You should not use other Google Analytics tracking code (at least not the base) if you use this.

OldSchoolDSL · #41 12-19-2011, 12:23 AM

I always wondered (if you don't mind me asking)

How does this compare -vs- me simply putting Google's Script into the footer.

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.04545 seconds Memory Usage 2,325KB Queries Executed 26 (?)
More Information
Template Usage: (1)SHOWTHREAD (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (1)ad_showthread_beforeqr (1)footer (1)forumjump (1)forumrules (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (1)modsystem_post (1)navbar (4)navbar_link (120)option (1)pagenav (1)pagenav_curpage (4)pagenav_pagelink (11)post_thanks_box (8)post_thanks_box_bit (11)post_thanks_button (1)post_thanks_javascript (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (1)post_thanks_postbit (11)post_thanks_postbit_info (10)postbit (6)postbit_attachment (11)postbit_onlinestatus (11)postbit_wrapper (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open (1)tagbit_wrapper Phrase Groups Available: global inlinemod postbit posting reputationlevel showthread	Included Files: ./showthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php ./includes/class_postbit.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_reputation.php ./includes/functions_post_thanks.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete showthread_start showthread_getinfo forumjump showthread_post_start showthread_query_postids showthread_query bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create showthread_postbit_create postbit_factory postbit_display_start post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_start post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_end post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_start fetch_musername post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_end post_thanks_function_thanked_already_start post_thanks_function_thanked_already_end post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_bit_start post_thanks_function_show_thanks_date_start post_thanks_function_show_thanks_date_end post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_bit_end post_thanks_function_fetch_post_thanks_template_start post_thanks_function_fetch_post_thanks_template_end postbit_imicons bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete postbit_attachment postbit_display_complete post_thanks_function_can_thank_this_post_start pagenav_page pagenav_complete tag_fetchbit_complete forumrules navbits navbits_complete showthread_complete
Messages:

9 благодарности(ей) от:
Craigr, Gemma, goblues, keteflips, mohammadxxx, Neal-UK, thecore762, TheLastSuperman

The Arcive of Official vBulletin Modifications Site.

It is not a VB3 engine, just a parsed copy!