Feed Tracking - curious about open-web-analytics HOT 6 CLOSED

Yes that's correct. The WordPress plugin makes use of this as those feeds are generated dynamically.

Peter Adams

On Sep 24, 2014, at 1:57 PM, diondkb [email protected] wrote:

Hi,

The doc states: RSS/ATOM subscription tracking - track unique feed readers, reader types, and feed requests - how does OWA implement this. My simple understanding is that a feed reader/aggregator would check for updates at predetermined times using the feed.xml file. Would this request be made to the PHP framework running on the server, which in turn would make an appropriate request to the Server OS? If this is the case, I understand that the stats for downloads can then be saved to a DB.

Thanks.

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

from open-web-analytics.

I currently use GA, but need to track podcast feed download statistics(referrer, ip, file url etc). I also host my website with GoDaddy(Linux Apache MySql and PHP). These feed downloads cant be tracked by GA, or a wordpress plugin(according to my understanding, feed readers make these requests externally), hence my prior question. By installing OWA, will I be able to accomplish this? If so, by install OWA I get a once stop shop?

from open-web-analytics.

you would have to write custom code to do this. nothing happens out of the box unless you use WordPress to generate the feed.

-P-

On Sep 24, 2014, at 9:57 PM, diondkb [email protected] wrote:

I currently use GA, but need to track podcast feed download statistics(referrer, ip, file url etc. I also host my website with GoDaddy(Linux Apache MySql and PHP). These feed downloads cant be tracked by GA, or a wordpress plugin(according to my understanding), hence my prior question. By installing OWA, will I be able to accomplish this? If so, by install OWA I get a once stop shop?

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

from open-web-analytics.

So OWA operates just like GA, except the data is stored locally in a db. So I would need to write an Apache plugin to intercept the request from a requesting feed hoster or reader to download a file from the server and save to said db?

from open-web-analytics.

Sorry. Pressed wrong button.

from open-web-analytics.

Yes. You would have to intercept the request and then hit OWA's log.php to track the feed event.

from open-web-analytics.