732446 - Tracking Items on The Den Blog

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites :: Web Analytics, task)

Description

[Carmen]

For 
http://blog.mozilla.com/theden/

I'd like to be able to track how many people the blog sends to the email newsletter and affiliates (on the right-hand rail)

Please advise. :)

Comment 1

[Bradley Gross]

The easiest way to do this would be to upgrade to the latest version of our core tag.  This way we'll be able to leverage automatic link tracking to count link clicks.

Please review this with Laura. It will require us to update some code on your site.

Comment 2

[Laura Forrest]

+1. 

Let's make sure blogs gets the most recent version of our tagging and can get this automated link tracking. It would benefit blogs as well. 

Brad - please add implementation details below, or link to the wiki where details are, and then we can pass this to a dev.

Comment 3

[Bradley Gross]

The javascript file you'll want to reference (or copy) is here:
www.mozilla.org/js/webtrends.js

In addition you'll want to add the following Webtrends javascript beacon to each of the pages you would like to track:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/webtrends.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var _tag=new WebTrends({"dcsid":"dcsis0ifv10000gg3ag82u4rf_7b1e","rate":100,"fpcdom":"mozilla.com"});
_tag.trackevents=true;
_tag.dcsGetId();
//]]>
</script>
<script>
//<![CDATA[
_tag.trackevents=true;
_tag.dcsCollect();
//]]>
</script>
<noscript>
<div><img alt="DCSIMG" id="DCSIMG" width="1" height="1" src="https://statse.webtrendslive.com/dcsis0ifv10000gg3ag82u4rf_7b1e/njs.gif?dcsuri=/nojavascript&amp;WT.js=No&amp;WT.tv=8.6.2"/></div>
</noscript>
<!-- END OF SmartSource Data Collector TAG -->

You also probably want to remove your current implementation of the Webtrends data collection javascript.

I'm happy to get on a call with your developer to figure out the details.

Comment 4

[Laura Forrest]

Hey Chrissie - This is a small tag change to the whole blog - can you help pass this on to someone that can help implement? Thanks! This will turn on Automatic Link Tracking making it super easy for bloggers to see which links are getting clicked.

Comment 5

[Laura Forrest]

Hey Carmen - assigning this back to you to work with the dev team to help implement this. Thanks!

Comment 6

[Carmen]

Hi Craig,

This is an old bug - and I'm not sure if the code above ever got implemented. Can you help me check that?

Comment 7

[Chris More [:cmore]]

This is already possible now since Google Analytics is on all of those sites and we can check out referring traffic. If you need help, set up a meeting and I will show you how to do it.