SmartLogic Solutions Blog » JavaScript http://blog.smartlogicsolutions.com News and updates from the people at SmartLogic Solutions Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:39:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Google Analytics Event Tracking Overview http://blog.smartlogicsolutions.com/2009/09/24/google-analytics-event-tracking-overview/ http://blog.smartlogicsolutions.com/2009/09/24/google-analytics-event-tracking-overview/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:17:44 +0000 Yair Flicker http://blog.smartlogicsolutions.com/?p=714 At our last monthly technical luncheon I gave a presentation on Google Analytics Event Tracking.

Event Tracking in Google Analytics lets the web developer track AJAX requests and by extension Flash events too. AJAX requests don’t cause page views but as more and more web applications use AJAX it’s important to track the AJAX requests in addition to the standard page requests. Here are some examples of things you can track with GA Event Tracking that you typically wouldn’t be able to track with the standard Google Analytics Javascript embed:

  • Play/pause a video
  • Dragging an element from one part of the screen into another part of the screen, e.g. dragging a product into a shopping cart
  • Selecting a location/pin on a map
  • Resizing/panning a map
  • Reordering elements in a list
  • Hovering over elements on a webpage

The presentation is embedded below and is also available online at http://bit.ly/gaevents.

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Screenshot:

My Version of Facebox in our timetracker application

My Version of Facebox in our timetracker application

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The iPhone application itself is available at spotcrime.com/iphone.php.

The iPhone application has been a success so far and is being used by thousands of iPhone users every day. It is currently the seventh most popular travel application in the Apple iPhone Travel Webapps directory.

Developing this application was a fun project for us because we were able to learn the “ins and outs” of the custom programming functions available to iPhone web applications. Some neat features of the webapp:

  • Rotating your phone will cause the map to go full-screen
  • User-friendly buttons for navigating the map: the buttons are round and somewhat transparent, making the most of the small screen
  • Easily navigable list of cities for which crimes are reported

For more information and more images, see our portfolio entry for the SpotCrime iPhone webapp.

SpotCrime iPhone webapp: Vertical View
SpotCrime iPhone webapp: Horizontal View
SpotCrime iPhone webapp: City Selector View
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