Google Analytics is nice, but it is for websites.
If I have a console application how can I track its usage worldwide? Can i just download an transparent.gif file from the analytics service provider?
What are your thoughts on such analytics?
Google Analytics is nice, but it is for websites.
If I have a console application how can I track its usage worldwide? Can i just download an transparent.gif file from the analytics service provider?
What are your thoughts on such analytics?
I'm aware that this question is pretty old, but it's look like Google Analytics is finally available for general use via it's Measurement Protocol. So, that's the most 'official' way to use Google Analytics for desktop (or any other 'generic') apps now.
As David d C e Freitas said, Google Analytics is not just for web applications, but also track mobile applications on most popular platform like android, iOS and so on. Now ,there are many analytics tools on the market for you which track different kinds applications. For example, Flurry, Countly, Appsee, etc are for mobile apps, Deskmetrics, DeskAppTrack, etc are for desktop apps. Just take a look at these analytics tools and choose one or more to be yours.
Google Analytics is also for other environments via their (new) measurement protocol. It can be used for desktop, mobile, and servers. Look at their web page for more information.
For a mac I have created an helper class which use Google Analytics GoogleAnalyticsReporting