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Keep tabs on your Google Analytics stats. Literally.

The CP Analytics accessory displays an attractive overview of your site’s Google Analytics statistics in the EE control panel. You get quick stats for Today and Yesterday (visits, pageviews, average pageviews per visit, and average visit length), with increased stats for the past 30 days (visits, pageviews, average pageviews per visit, average visit length, bounce rate, percentage of new visits, top content and top referrers). The 30-day stats also include sparklines to visualize site activity.

New in version 1.2 is an optional interactive area chart for your control panel homepage which display visits and pageviews from the last 30 days. (Hat-tip to Chris Imrie for the idea.)

Authentication is handled via Google’s AuthSub protocol, so your Google account credentials are not stored in the database.

Caching

CP Analytics caches your “yesterday” and “last month” stats daily, and “today” stats hourly. You can optionally cache the Google Chart sparkline images locally to your third party themes directory or another directory of your choice, using either the Extension Settings screen, or the config array items cp_analytics_cache_path and cp_analytics_cache_url.

Theming

CP Analytics comes with themes for the Default/Fruit, and Corporate themes. If you use a different control panel theme, and wish to customize how CP Analytics looks, add your override styles to a file called your_theme_name.css and upload it to /expressionengine/third_party/cp_analytics/css/.

Compatibility

CP Analytics is MSM-compatible, and requires ExpressionEngine 2.1.3, PHP 5+, cURL or fopen support, and Open SSL. Google Analytics data is fetched using a modified version of Stig Manning’s GAPI class.

For the EE 1.7 version, see Google Analytics Panel.

Download CP Analytics

CP Analytics Links

• GitHub Repository

This entry was last updated January 26, 2012, 9:52 am.

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