analytics

No. 414 / More Foolishness

Some wall­pa­pers in the new Down­loads sec­tion. I’ve also cor­rected the Google Ana­lyt­ics code: since I was using my OOR.require() func­tion to load Google’s file, I should’ve been pass­ing the track­ing call as the sec­ond para­me­ter so that it would be invoked once the file loaded and not a moment sooner. Check it…
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No. 382 / Google Woes

Since imple­ment­ing the changes to my Google Ana­lyt­ics instal­la­tion as detailed in my last post, I’ve noticed a sharp decrease in page views: none recorded. I put the default code back on the page, but am curi­ous as to why it’s not work­ing when I wid­getize it (Google Ads worked fine when I used…
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No. 361 / Abstracting Analytics, Part 2

Since the relaunch of the site, I’ve been work­ing with cer­tain ele­ments of the JavaScript to improve per­for­mance and keep things clean. In the past, I talked about cre­at­ing a brand new JavaScript library that I’d use here; and I started to do write it, look­ing to jQuery, Pro­to­type, and DOMAs­sis­tant for inspi­ra­tion.…
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No. 241 / Abstracting Analytics

In re-thinking the way I approach the JavaScript on my site, I’m def­i­nitely lean­ing towards cre­at­ing an ana­lyt­ics wid­get. I want to keep as much JavaScript as pos­si­ble out of my HTML. So, in lieu of the code that cur­rently sites at the bot­tom of any given page, I think I should do some­thing…
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