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Issue 10832042: Extensions Docs Server: Doc conversion script (Closed) Base URL: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src
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+<h1>Tutorial: Google Analytics</h1>
+
+
+<p>This tutorial demonstrates using Google Analytics to track the usage of your
+extension.</p>
+
+<h2 id="toc-requirements">Requirements</h2>
+<p>
+ This tutorial expects that you have some familiarity writing extensions for
+ Google Chrome. If you need information on how to write an extension, please
+ read the <a href="gettingstarted.html">Getting Started tutorial</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ You will also need a <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics">Google
+ Analytics account</a> set up to track your extension. Note that when setting
+ up the account, you can use any value in the Website's URL field, as your
+ extension will not have an URL of its own.
+</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: center">
+ <img src="{{static}}/images/tut_analytics/screenshot01.png"
+ style="width:400px;height:82px;"
+ alt="The analytics setup with info for a chrome extension filled out." />
+</p>
+
+<h2 id="toc-installing">Installing the tracking code</h2>
+
+<p>
+ The standard Google Analytics tracking code snippet fetches a file named
+ <code>ga.js</code> from an SSL protected URL if the current page
+ was loaded using the <code>https://</code> protocol. <strong>Chrome
+ extensions and applications may <em>only</em> use the SSL-protected version of
+ <code>ga.js</code></strong>. Loading <code>ga.js</code> over insecure HTTP is
+ disallowed by Chrome's default <a href="contentSecurityPolicy.html">Content
+ Security Policy</a>. This, plus the fact that Chrome extensions are hosted
+ under the <code>chrome-extension://</code> schema, requires a slight
+ modification to the usual tracking snippet to pull <code>ga.js</code> directly
+ from <code>https://ssl.google-analytics.com/ga.js</code> instead of the
+ default location.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ Below is a modified snippet for the
+ <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTracking.html">asynchronous
+ tracking API</a> (the modified line is bolded):
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+(function() {
+ var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
+ <strong>ga.src = 'https://ssl.google-analytics.com/ga.js';</strong>
+ var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
+})();
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+ You'll also need to ensure that your extension has access to load the resource
+ by relaxing the default content security policy. The policy definition in your
+ <a href="manifest.html"><code>manifest.json</code></a> might look like:
+</p>
+
+<pre>{
+ ...,
+ "content_security_policy": "script-src 'self' https://ssl.google-analytics.com; object-src 'self'",
+ ...
+}</pre>
+
+<p>
+ Here is a popup page (<code>popup.html</code>) which loads the asynchronous
+ tracking code via an external JavaScript file (<code>popup.js</code>) and
+ tracks a single page view:
+</p>
+
+<pre>popup.js:
+=========
+
+var _gaq = _gaq || [];
+_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X']);
+_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
+
+(function() {
+ var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
+ ga.src = 'https://ssl.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
+ var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
+})();
+
+popup.html:
+===========
+&lt;!DOCTYPE html>
+&lt;html>
+ &lt;head>
+ ...
+ &lt;script src="popup.js">&lt;/script>
+ &lt;/head>
+ &lt;body>
+ ...
+ &lt;/body>
+&lt;/html>
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+ Keep in mind that the string <code>UA-XXXXXXXX-X</code> should be replaced
+ with your own Google Analytics account number.
+</p>
+
+<h2 id="toc-tracking-pageviews">Tracking page views</h2>
+
+<p>
+ The <code>_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);</code> code will track a single
+ page view. This code may be used on any page in your extension. When
+ placed on a background page, it will register a view once per browser
+ session. When placed on a popup, it will register a view once every time
+ the popup is opened.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ By looking at the page view data for each page in your extension, you can
+ get an idea of how many times your users interact with your extension per
+ browser session:
+</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: center">
+ <img src="{{static}}/images/tut_analytics/screenshot02.png"
+ style="width:300px;height:119px;"
+ alt="Analytics view of the top content for a site." />
+</p>
+
+<h2 id="toc-debugging">Monitoring analytics requests</h2>
+
+<p>
+ To ensure that tracking data from your extension is being sent to Google
+ Analytics, you can inspect the pages of your extension in the
+ Developer Tools window (see the
+ <a href="tut_debugging.html">debugging tutorial</a> for more information).
+ As the following figure shows, you should see requests for a file named
+ <strong>__utm.gif</strong> if everything is set up correctly.
+</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: center">
+ <img src="{{static}}/images/tut_analytics/screenshot04.png"
+ style="width:683px;height:418px;"
+ alt="Developer Tools window showing the __utm.gif request" />
+</p>
+
+<h2 id="toc-tracking-events">Tracking events</h2>
+
+<p>
+ By configuring event tracking, you can determine which parts of your
+ extension your users interact with the most. For example, if you have
+ three buttons users may click:
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+ &lt;button id='button1'>Button 1&lt;/button>
+ &lt;button id='button2'>Button 2&lt;/button>
+ &lt;button id='button3'>Button 3&lt;/button>
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+ Write a function that sends click events to Google Analytics:
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+ function trackButton(e) {
+ _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', e.target.id, 'clicked']);
+ };
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+ And use it as an event handler for each button's click:
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+ var buttons = document.querySelectorAll('button');
+ for (var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
+ buttons[i].addEventListener('click', trackButtonClick);
+ }
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+ The Google Analytics event tracking overview page will give you metrics
+ regarding how many times each individual button is clicked:
+</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: center">
+ <img src="{{static}}/images/tut_analytics/screenshot03.png"
+ style="width:300px;height:482px;"
+ alt="Analytics view of the event tracking data for a site." />
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ By using this approach, you can see which parts of your extension are
+ under-or-overutilized. This information can help guide decisions about UI
+ redesigns or additional functionality to implement.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ For more information about using the event tracking API, see the
+ Google Analytics
+ <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerOverview.html">developer
+ documentation</a>.
+</p>
+
+<h2 id="toc-samplecode">Sample code</h2>
+
+<p>
+ A sample extension that uses these techniques is
+ available in the Chromium source tree:
+</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+ <a href="http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/common/extensions/docs/examples/tutorials/analytics/">.../examples/tutorials/analytics/</a>
+</blockquote>
+</p>

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