Comments on: Yahoo! Web Analytics to get Faster (and better)

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:53:37 +0000

On the subject of load time, the YWA system seems to have almost trickled to a stand-still over the past couple of months and i am having difficulty in getting data off the system in a timely fashion and therefore i have found my self readily using google analytics as it is much, much faster. Is this happening to everyone?

By: Dennis R. Mortensen

Dennis R. Mortensen — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:48:54 +0000

Hey Fiona,

You need to set the following:

YWATracker.setAmount(“USD100.00“);

Where USD100 is something you need to inflate at runtime. Here is a complete example including a few other items you might find useful:

YWATracker.setAction(“01“);
YWATracker.setSKU(“DM112899“);
YWATracker.setUnits(“2“);
YWATracker.setAmounts(“100.00“);
YWATracker.setDiscount(“5.00“);
YWATracker.setTax(“8.00“);
YWATracker.setShipping(“20.00“);
YWATracker.setOrderId(“10099803“);
YWATracker.setAmount(“USD123.00“);

Cheers
d.

By: Fiona Tighe

Fiona Tighe — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:24:54 +0000

Hi Dennis,

I know this might be seen as a stupid question, but when capturing the sales information, Currently the amount of the transaction is not being recorded.
The following is the code that I have implemented:

var YWATracker = YWA.getTracker(‘XXXXXX’);
YWATracker.setDocumentName(“Payment Confirmation”); YWATracker.setDocumentGroup(“Shopping Cart”);
YWATracker.setAction(“01″);
YWATracker.submit();

Sales are being reported in the Sales Summary report, but not the amount. What do i need to add/changed?

Regards
Fiona

By: Dennis R. Mortensen

Dennis R. Mortensen — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:24:20 +0000

Hey Samuel,

Did you change to the new data center ?
If not, then today’s the day! :-)

cheers
d.

By: Samuel

Samuel — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:08:55 +0000

It is now June 29th and Yahoo analytics is still very slow. I though that when it was Indextools, reporting was faster (in terms of refreshing and pretty much web page browsing). Right now it takes a lot of time to sit and wait while a report comes on the screen. Very dreadful.

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By: Jacob Kildebogaard

Jacob Kildebogaard — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:54:02 +0000

@Dennis: Great, every input are very welcome :-)

@Charlie: Thanx. Great to know. I am looking forward to get my fingers to your new code and the (hopefully) great new advantages :-) June 2010 is a nice long time limit to be able to remake all codes.

By: Daniel Mcskelly

Daniel Mcskelly — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:07:03 +0000

>> You or Dave Coming to SES NY?
The man himself will be there, just told him to make sure he stops by the Y! booth to pester you in person :)

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:41:59 +0000

Hi Dennis,

thanks for the quick and thorough reply!

I’ll have to look into yahoo’s privacy policy a bit more (and find out what was the problem with GA, in the first place!), but what you say about being able to not collect/store the IP address and even obfuscating it, sounds like it should work. Great that it’s still free, too ;-)

By: Dennis R. Mortensen

Dennis R. Mortensen — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:34:37 +0000

Hey Patrick,

>>Is it still free?
Yes. $0 it is.

>>Do you have any idea if this (technical) problem exists with yahoo, too?
I would hate to comment on GA and Privacy. That’s for them to do, but let me elaborate on where Y! stand on this point:

- Yahoo! will never share your data with competitors or competitive Yahoo! businesses.
- You own the data and may export it and use it as you please.
- Yahoo strives to maintain 99% service up-time. We will notify you before any scheduled down-time.

On top of this and in particular in regards to the German (EU) market, you can setup the tracking code, so that we do NOT collect and store the IP number of any of the visitors. You can actually choose to obfuscate the IP as well, if you would want to keep 3 digits. Furthemore, there is a forced OPT-OUT opportunity attached to the T&C’s.

Cheers
d. :-)