Plone Click Tracking Tool

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This product has not had a release in over 1 year and may no longer be maintained.

Plone Click Tracking Tool (qClickTrackingTool ) is aimed for assisting in tracking advertisement campaigns in Plone websites. It allows to track clicks of visitors. Actual statistics calculation is performed by external AWstats log analysis system.

Project Description

Each campaign is assigned id and destination URL. Tool is redirecting urls of the form "portal_url/track/campaignId" to actual campaign destination.

External log analysis tool is grouping tracking log entries and provides results as a part of statistical report.

Installation includes AWstats configuration details.

Usage

1. Install as Zope product
2. Install in your Plone instance with QuickInstaller (Plone Control Panel -> Add/remove Products)
3. Install with Quick Installer.
4. Go to Plone Setup -> Click Tracking Tool
5. Create your Campaigns there. Important are id (campaign Id) and URL (the address tool should direct campaign to).
6. Add following section to your awstats.*config*.conf::

          ExtraSectionName1="Tracked clicks"
          ExtraSectionCodeFilter1="200 302 304"
          ExtraSectionCondition1="URL,^\/track\/.*"
          ExtraSectionFirstColumnTitle1="Transition"
          ExtraSectionFirstColumnValues1="URL,^/track\/([^/]+)(\/)?"
          ExtraSectionStatTypes1=H
          MaxNbOfExtra1=50
          MinHitExtra1=1
   

   If you have ExtraSection 1 in your config, change 1 in the lines aove to next available number.
7. Add banners/tabs, links on the site to point your campaigns in the Tracking tool: "/track/campaignId".
8. Watch your awstats, it should have "Tracked clicks" section with collected data grouped per campaign.