Blacklight with Google Analytics
Jason Ronallo
One idea that came out of LibDevConX was that it would be good to have
a gem that would allow Google Analytics tracking to be set up easily
for a Blacklight application.
I've created the gem blacklight_google_analytics. Besides page
tracking, it uses some simple jQuery to track other events on the page
like facet expand/collapse. This is just a start.
You can see the code here with installation instructions:
https://github.com/jronallo/blacklight_google_analytics
The gem has a pre-release version up here:
https://rubygems.org/gems/blacklight_google_analytics
While this code is an extraction, simplification, and reworking of the
event tracking code I'm using, I have not used this gem in production.
Once someone confirms that it works in a production setting, I'll make
a proper release.
It appears that there are some elements in Blacklight which could use
more exact id attributes to help with more fine-grained event
tracking. I'll look to make some of those changes. I've created a
github issue here assigned to me:
https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/issues/396
Please let me know if you have any questions about this. Happy to talk
more about event tracking and what I'm doing on my sites.
Jason