Along with some other features, Google Analytics today launched Google Analytics Custom Tracking. This is a new website (code.google.com/apis/analytics/, a section of code.google.com) that deals with the Google Analytics Tracking Code. The site does a nice job of pulling together information about ga.js and Event Tracking. Plus it has a snazzy movie of Avinash, what a bonus!
While the new graphing features are nice, I think this is a very significant event. Google is really pushing Google Analytics and a data collection and analysis service, not just a web analytics tool. Sure, most of the data is generated via a web interface, but think of the proliferation of web-based applications and services.
Let’s not forget about Event Tracking. It’s not a rigid data structure that we have to adhere to. It is a flexible data model where we can define the data. It will work perfectly with web application.
I’d like to point out that the term API is all over this site. This has nothing to do with extracting data from Google Analytics. There is no API to extract data from Google Analytics.
New and Improved GA.JS Documentation is a post from: Analytics Talk by Justin Cutroni
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