Rails spinoffs - Apr 2008 - [OT] How to Deal With Google Analytics

I''m not sure exactly where to post this, but I have a site where the  
user navigates to the home page URL and the rest is all js and AJAX.  
It works very well for this site (http://gemmy.calicowebdev.com)  
because its sole purpose is to allow people to search for Ruby gems --  
nothing else. So most of what Google Analytics does in terms of  
measuring where on the site people roost is wasted. But it''s useful to
know how long they are on the site and so on.

All searching is done incrementally with a periodic updater watching  
an input element. The searches can be somewhat meaningless and don''t  
necessarily correspond to "clicks" in the typical Web sense of the  
word. Say, for example, someone is looking for any Ruby gem that will  
help them create the next great YouTube mashup. They go to my nifty  
(if I do say so myself) site and they type:

y-o-u-t

By this time, they probably have a sufficiently precise result set  
that they''re on their way someplace else.

I guess what I''m asking in a pretty roundabout way is: Is this worth  
measuring in the first place and have any of you applied any metrics  
to anything similar?

Thanks,

--steve

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Hi,

It might be worth asking this over in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html (http://groups.google.com/group/
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html if you use Google Groups).

It can be hard to find, so I''ll also mention that the FAQ for that
newsgroup is available here:
http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/
(I mention this just because it''s important to read the FAQ for a
newsgroup before posting to it, and I for one had a heck of a time
finding theirs!)

FWIW,
--
T.J. Crowder
tj / crowder software / com

On Apr 7, 5:56 am, "s.ross"
<cwdi...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I''m not sure exactly where to post this, but I have a site where
the
> user navigates to the home page URL and the rest is all js and AJAX.
> It works very well for this site (http://gemmy.calicowebdev.com)
> because its sole purpose is to allow people to search for Ruby gems --
> nothing else. So most of what Google Analytics does in terms of
> measuring where on the site people roost is wasted. But it''s
useful to
> know how long they are on the site and so on.
>
> All searching is done incrementally with a periodic updater watching
> an input element. The searches can be somewhat meaningless and
don''t
> necessarily correspond to "clicks" in the typical Web sense of
the
> word. Say, for example, someone is looking for any Ruby gem that will
> help them create the next great YouTube mashup. They go to my nifty
> (if I do say so myself) site and they type:
>
> y-o-u-t
>
> By this time, they probably have a sufficiently precise result set
> that they''re on their way someplace else.
>
> I guess what I''m asking in a pretty roundabout way is: Is this
worth
> measuring in the first place and have any of you applied any metrics
> to anything similar?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --steve
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