Everyone’s a winner. Baby.
S’funny, I’ve been thinking “Mint or Google Analytics, Mint or Google, (daddy or chips?), Mint or Google…” I’ve had a look around though, and obviously they can co-exist perfectly fine. Like here.
So, both then! Mint for it’s luvly interface, live stats, development community and that I can pull data out of it for my own uses. Google for stuff like Adwords and funnel tracking. I imagine you’d check Mint every day, and have a poke around Google once a month.
I’ve corresponded with Shaun Inman myself - very nice fellow, I asked him if I could track events in a Flash movie the way you can with JavaScript the way you can with Google (as we do on the Foundry site). The answer happened to be no, but it has plenty of other features that make it worthwhile.
At $30, it’s like the man said in Lock Stock: “It’s a deal, it’s a steal, it’s the Sale of the fucking Century!” In fact, fuck it, I think I’ll keep it!”
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November 3rd, 2006 at 6:36 pm
I could track events in a Flash movie the way you can with JavaScript the way you can with Google (as we do on the Foundry site).
Wha??
November 3rd, 2006 at 6:45 pm
Wow, what a grammatically horrible sentence that was! Note to self: re-read posts.
You know the ‘people’ page with the mugs? When you mouseover a mug, a little javascript call on the button fires a string to Google Analytics with the person’s name.
It made rather more sense when you could see someone’s name and job title *before* rolling over and seeing additional information, but don’t get me started on the design howlers that abound on the Foundry website.
It’s all terribly clever though
I sent the Mint fellow a little email to make sure that under the its EULA I’m allowed to extract information from the Mint database for my own uses within a web application.
Don’t see why not.
November 3rd, 2006 at 9:41 pm
I’m still boggled as to what it is you are trying to do that Flash won’t let you… but eh *shrugs*
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:02 pm
Just looking at Mint and Analytics now. I like ‘em, but both rely on javascript (shame as I’m currently looking for some Web app stats tool) which as Mint point out :
” prevents Mint’s results from being skewed by non-human spiders, crawlers and referrer-spam bots.”
Which rules them both out for me. Part of my ongoing SEO is the need for a specfic ‘bot only’ stat report I do monthly to track who’s visiting the site when and where they are going, comparing it to current and planned ‘campaigns’ in my SEO software.
Still, google’s XML output does give me an idea for when I do get around to writting my own stats package. Perfect for pulling into a small Flash app on the front page to show page views/visitors for the week.
November 4th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Flash can have a JavaScript function call inside a getURL() command.
Google Analytics can capture them, Mint doesn’t.