Track views of rss feeds in newsreaders?

问题:

Is there a way to track if a blog post has been viewed but not clicked on in a newsreader? For example, when I read through my rss feeds in Google Reader, I generally read the entire article in Google Reader so I never click on the link to the article and therefore it is not tracked in Google Analytics. We use feedburner to track rss clicks.

回答1:

No, it's not possible, unfortunately, because you can't embed the JavaScript needed to trigger the pageview into a newsfeed.

回答2:

You would need a service to make the correct requests to the Google Analytics API or redirect to it. There are two APIs you can use:

• the __utm.gif "API"
• the Measurement Protocol API

To use the later (you need Universal Analytics), which is way better in my opinion, you would need to make a request or redirect to something like:

http://www.google-analytics.com/collect?z=<randomnumber>&t=pageview&dh=<domainname>&cid=<unique-client-uuid>&tid=<propertyid>&v=1dp=<path>

Where:

• <randomnumber> is a random number to avoid caches (especially if you do redirects)
• <domainname> is the domain name you see in your tracking code
• <propertyid> is the property id you see in your tracking code (eg: UA-123456)
• <path> is the path to the page you want to register the pageview for. Note that it must be quoted. Eg, for /path/to/page you would need to send %2Fpath%2Fto%2Fpage

I've implemented a simple redirector service that does exactly that here (explained at length here)

If you're stuck with the Classic Analytics then you would need to use nojsstats or the older implementation