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12/10/2012 2:59:03 AM
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Site Analytics Pro

Hi,

Not sure where to post this question.

Anyway, I was wondering if site analytics pro is still available. Don't seem to find it on the mobile store and the demo pages says page not found when trying it.

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K

 

12/10/2012 10:04:00 AM
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Re: Site Analytics Pro

Hi Ken,

I spent many many hours building In Site Analytics Pro and have only sold a few copies. Since then google has kept changing their apis and deprecating and then discontinuing the older ones. At one point it broke In Site Analytics and I had to find a workaround for the account setup part. It currently does still work but I fear at some point they will drop the api it uses and it would be a huge effort to rewrite again using the newer api and since it has not sold well the time/cost of rebuilding it would not be justified. So I have taken the product off the market to prevent future dissatisfaction from customers and undue expense and work for me.

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Joe

12/11/2012 4:11:09 AM
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I understand. I like the way you care about your product, so different from other systems that even hide their documentation if you do not pay.

Kind of weird not more people are interested in this, for most people checking basic traffic of your site in analytics is not an easy thing.

Is there a possibility you will open the add-on to the community at a later time or would you recommend people to look into the newer api to achieve the same result?

K

 

12/11/2012 1:28:39 PM
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I may consider open sourcing it at some point if I get to the point where I'm absolutely sure I won't ever try to update to the new api. From my initial analysis it looks like it would be a lot of work to update it. If you are interested in purchasing it even though it may stop working one day I could work that out with you. It does work now and there hasn't been an announcement yet about discontinuing the api it uses now, but they did drop the api before the one it uses now. The difference is that the api it uses now was only slightly different than the old one so it was easy to update, but the new one is much different and will be more like a complete re-write.

I've been burned by a few apis that got changed or dropped. Bing search for example changed to an Azure service and is not free except for low usage, I did manage to update to the new one. Windows Live Messenger web version we had a chat feature built on and that went away. Windows Live Authentication is being re-branded and moved to Azure services and I think the implementation will change.

I'm also sensing that the future viability of google analytics is uncertain given the cookie laws in the EU and UK and only being able to track after getting consent for a cookie, and the do not track features in browsers may become an obstacle to that kind of tracking. I think more and more we may be headed back towards the old way we analyzed traffic by IIS logs.

I'm also contemplating the possibility of a new product that would do detailed tracking and logging in real time, something that would allow following the activity of individual users in real time so it would be possible to see the flow of what links people click and the sequences of pages they visit and that would not depend on any external services or apis.

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Joe

12/11/2012 1:40:57 PM
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Re: Site Analytics Pro

Hi Joe, we're one of your few In-Site Analytics Pro purchasers, so I'd be sorry to see it go, but I do like the last idea you mentioned. mojoPortal itself has the ability to track usage activity (anonymized, as desired/required) at a much more detailed level than any third party could do, and I think that would be a fantastic new product, if you think it would be profitable enough.

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12/19/2012 1:51:39 PM
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These are indeed some valid points, in-site tracking seems indeed the way to do. I was mainly intersted in keeping the history and a quick look at the api revealed it is quite easy to pull all stuff down. Tx.

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