Recently we implemented a comment system on our articles, press releases and all that. Things were going well except it seems that we have a lot of clickers*. You know the people who click multiple times on every thing they click on.
*Note: On the web You only have to click once. Read more
Every Monday I am tasked with making the slides (powerpoint yuk) for our management meetings. The information consists of the visitors and page views on various section of our site over the past week including the difference plus or minus from the previous week.
Of our three sources of statistics collected for these reports we use the data from Google Analytics.
After six months or so of doing this by hand on a weekly basis I decide to investigate parsing the xml
file that is available from any view within analytics.
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