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Google Analytics

Ever wished you could tell what method of navigation your visitors use the most on your panorama?

Which is the most visited panorama of your multi-node tour?

Which hotspots did the visitor click?

How many visitors switch to fullscreen?

Well now you can! With FPP:Analytics it’s easy to discover what your visitors are doing inside your tours.

Until now we could only see how many visitors we had but not their behaviour. FPPAnalytics is a Flash Panorama Player plugin that enables the Google Analytics tracking service to analyse the behavior of our visitors in our tours. It tracks the filename of your panorama the moment it’s loaded and it appends a base tour name so you can group tour clicks easily. You also can track clicks in your hotspots, menu buttons etc.

Fully customizable from your main XML.

Developers notes: “I developed this plugin because I nedded this kind of functionality for my own projects. This project won’t stop being developed (an update is already in test phase to implement Goal tracking).” Here’s the Google Analytics page for Demo Page:

Panarama tours usage

Demo: 2 node tour with trackable hotspot DEMO

(use Flash Tracer plugin to see feedback)

Price: 10€

Don’t forget to provide your email address to complete the transaction.

Once purchased, I will email you the Plugin and example files — usually within 24-48 hours!

All minor version upgrades are free (upgrade from version 1.2 up to 1.9 are free)

(If you made the payment but didn’t receive the plugin please contact me).

Feel free to ask questions in the comments, or by email!

How to use it:

- first you need a Google Analytics account (if you’re new to this service follow their tutorials, they’re really good)

- after setting up your Google Analytics account you’ll get a Web Property ID (something like UA-######-#)

- now setup FPPAnalytics like any other plugin in FPP (replace the UA-######-# with your own Web Property ID):

<fppanalytics>
        layer_20 = hotspots.swf
        layer_30  = fppanalytics.swf
        panoName = images/panoramaFile

        webid = UA-######-#
        debug = false
        baseName = FPP Analytics Demo
        folderMask = images/
</fppanalytics>

- and you’re good to go. To verify if the plugin is working you should install the Flash Tracer Firefox Add-On and take a look at the trace statements as the analytics service can take up to 24H to reflect your clicks.

Parameters (if you don’t include a parameter it will revert to the default value):

webid – your Web Property ID provided by Google. If you don’t add this parameter no tracking will be done.

debug – if set to true FPPAnalytics won’t send the information to Google but will give you an alert box with what it would track (usefull if you don’t have the FlashTracer Firefox AddOn, Default is FALSE)

baseName – it’ the name of the actual tour, the name you wish to goup all the panoramas under. Default is FPPTour.

folderMask – If your panoramas are inside a folder but you don’t wish to have it in the name that gets tracked. Default is NULL or no masking will be done.

External call:

external.fppanalytics.trackHS=String to identify this click

Use this method to call the FPPAnalytics functionality from any kind of hotspots, The string will be added to the end of the current panorama loaded so we know what was the active file when the user clicked the hotspot.

Price: 10€

Don’t forget to provide your email address to complete the transaction.

Once purchased, I will email you the Plugin and example files — usually within 24-48 hours!

All minor version upgrades are free (upgrade from version 1.2 up to 1.9 are free)

(If you made the payment but didn’t receive the plugin please contact me).

Feel free to ask questions in the comments, or by email!