996576 - Track when a Webmaker Event is added, using GA 'Events'

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webmaker Graveyard :: Events, defect)

Description

[Adam Lofting (:adamlofting)]

For clarity, the word event means two things in this bug:
1) Webmaker events (e.g. hosting a MakerParty)
2) GA Events (a type of 'hit' recorded in Google Analytics)

We should track when people Add a webmaker event to events.webmaker.org by firing a Google Analytics tracking event.

To do this, we need to add the webmaker-events bower module (https://github.com/mozilla/webmaker-analytics) to the website, and then to fire this JavaScript code after a webmaker event is added to the database:

analytics.event("Add Event");

Comment 1

[Adam Lofting (:adamlofting)]

Getting this tracking in place ahead of Maker Party will enable us to measure which comms activities and referring sites are driving events sign-ups. 

Can I politely nudge this one for a prioritization :)

Comment 2

[Gavin Suntop [:gvn]]

Attachment: https://github.com/mozilla/webmaker-events-2/pull/91

Comment 3

[Adam Lofting (:adamlofting)]

This code all looks good to me, but I haven't seen any events in GA yet so I'm leaving a needsinfo flag open to remind me to check in on Monday and see if any events have been logged.

Comment 4

[Adam Lofting (:adamlofting)]

Attachment: eventsgoal.png

This data is appearing in GA now. It's recorded two new events over the weekend. Can we quickly check this against the database to see if that's how many we're expecting?

Comment 5

[Gavin Suntop [:gvn]]

4 events have been created so far in June. 3 were created on the 2nd, 1 on the 1st.

Comment 6

[Adam Lofting (:adamlofting)]

Great, I'm now seeing 5 events in GA from 1-3 June (but the 3rd is partial data). There can be some mismatch in days with timezones in DBs vs GA but this appears to be working correctly. Thanks again for this.