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December 28, 2008

Add Google Analytics to your Posterous site

You can now add Google Analytics to your own Posterous site. Just sign up for Google Analytics, and then give us your Analytics Domain ID.

You enter this ID in Posterous by clicking the "edit site" link on your account manage page.

More info can be found here.

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Posted by Sachin Agarwal 

Comments (38)

Dec 28, 2008
Michael said...
You guys just keep adding better and better features. Just awesome. Keep up the great work!
Dec 28, 2008
Marco F. said...
nice!
what domain should I add in analytics? my custom domain (post.marcof.net) or the posterous subdomain marcof.posterous.net??
Dec 29, 2008
Sachin Agarwal said...
Marco, you should use your custom domain. Thanks
Dec 29, 2008
Marco F. said...
Ah, never mind.. I opted for the former, and it works.
HOWEVER, why is there two entries in the site? I see one that I've added myself.. Is the other yours? (I guess you'd like to track all posterous access, so it sounds logical)

anyway, thanks a bunch!

Dec 29, 2008
Sachin Agarwal said...
yes the other is our own.
Dec 29, 2008
Giampiero said...
Waaah! Great! ;-)
Dec 29, 2008
Aviraj Saluja said...
Woohoo!
Dec 29, 2008
Andrea Contino said...
Great Sachin, I found out that it doesn't work with custom domain but you have to enter Analytics the http://name.posterous.com.

Bye from Italy!

Dec 29, 2008
Sachin Agarwal said...
Hey Andrea. Thanks for the info. I'll look into this some more. When you entered the custom domain, were you not seeing any results? Sometimes google analytics takes a while to update.
Dec 29, 2008
Andrea Contino said...
Well, I've just changed it into www.westside.fm. It still returns me "waiting for data". I'll let you know if something will go wrong or will be ok.
Just to clarify, when I first put my custom domain it returns me error, while I've changed with name.posterous.com it started to receive data.
Let's give Analytics another chance and I'll update you :)
Dec 29, 2008
Aviraj Saluja said...
Hey Sachin, when you say a while, approximately how long should I wait before I know this isn't working? 

p.s. - I use a custom domain.
Dec 29, 2008
Aviraj Saluja said...
Nevermind, it's up :)
Dec 29, 2008
Andrea Contino said...
Hooray! Mine too. It was just a matter of waiting :)
Dec 29, 2008
Matt Hoult said...
Brilliant addition, Posterous just gets better and better. Thanks guys!
Dec 29, 2008
anthony marco said...
First I triple up in a late night poker session, now this? You guys rock! I'm going to buy a lottery ticket... or can I do that on posterous now too!?!
Dec 29, 2008
sean 808080 said...
awesome stuff. as I was commenting on a photo that was crossposted to twitter, it occured to me that posting the comment to twitter with a link back to the original photo would make posterous work like twitpic.

posterous rocks!

Dec 30, 2008
Gab Ottino said...
This is awesome. Get a break, it's holiday season and you guys deserve it!
Dec 30, 2008
Imperfect said...
Finally! This is awesome guys!!!
Dec 30, 2008
Tami Baribeau said...
Nice! Thanks guys :)
Dec 31, 2008
Phani Raj Kuchibhotla said...
Brilliant, it cant get simpler than this.Just give AdSense and feed reader support(am i right?), am ready to ditch blogger and wordpress.
Jan 02, 2009
Jose Paul Martin said...
Sachin, tried including the urchin id... doesn't seem to be working... (oh, and we are definitely looking forward to adsense!)
Jan 02, 2009
Balázs M said...
Finally, I guess you had tons of mails about this.
Thanks.
Jan 02, 2009
Jose Paul Martin said...
Is there a place on Posterous, where users can vote for features? A Poll?

I know ur thinking 'we want to keep it simple without adding clutter'... but still?

Jan 02, 2009
Balázs M said...
There's a 'Send feedback' labeled link on the main page, you can use that. I've written to the team some mails, and they've answered, all the time. Very positive! :)
Jan 03, 2009
Hannelore Baur said...
You are getting better and better. Thanks!!
Jan 03, 2009
Alex Pascall said...
A pal showed me this and I was fascinated to see what I have been trying to get a website designer to do for me for a long time and he just could not realise what I wanted. I work a lot with young people in the field of creative education and wants to get them to work with me on projects after I have demonstrated my stories to them. Because of the difficulties with the internet and young people, I need to establish the type of site where they and their tutors can send me their work and I can respond to them.

With that in mind what safeguards will you build in to your system to have the security and safeguard.

It would be best if one of you guys can speak with me about ,my concerns, please let me have a contact number to call.

Alexz

Jan 03, 2009
Garry Tan said...
Alex, feel free to email us at help@posterous.com with your questions. More privacy is a feature that's coming soon.
Jan 04, 2009
Nischal Shetty said...
Excellent!!

Google Analytics would help all of us know our traffic sources.

I've always wondered if my blog got any search engine traffic. Guess the mystery would be solved now :D

Jan 04, 2009
Alex Pascall said...
Observations for discussion The site you are developing has numerous advantages, but I will not convey them to you in an ordinary Blog, it will be useful to many of us who are looking for ways to make contact and to market ideas.
 
Alex
Jan 04, 2009
Alan Bradford said...
Way too cool. You have tapped into just about every need that a blogger could have. Now my analytical appetite can be satiated. I've used Google's tools on other Wordpress blogs, so this is a VERY welcome addition.

Thanks boys and girls...

Jan 07, 2009
Foomandoonian said...
Thanks, this is a huge plus for me, and I'm sure many others. Any chance of getting feedburner integration too?
Feb 22, 2009
Brian Hansen said...
It seems that the numbers on Posterous (views) are much higher than what I see in Google Analytics. I am measuring posts that were created long after GA was installed and confirmed to be working. For instance this post: http://internetbarf.posterous.com/where-did-the-term-spam-come-f shows viewed 234 times today but GA only reports 17 page views. I have GA installed and working on this Posterous blog since 01/26/2009. Anyone else seeing this same kind of discrepancy?
Feb 22, 2009
Foomandoonian said...
Brian, I'd be very interested in hearing more on that too.
They do say 'Note: page view numbers from Google Analytics may not match those shown on your Posterous manage page. Posterous counts post views from subscriptions and your RSS feed which Google will not.', which seems reasonable, but a little vague. I'm sure the figure is honest, but it probably doesn't reflect true views of your content.
Feb 22, 2009
Matt Hoult said...
@foomandoonian Do you know of a way then which I can check how many people are polling my RSS feed daily? I gave an example here of how it seems like a very large difference.
Feb 22, 2009
Foomandoonian said...
Not really Matt. I'd like to see FeedBurner integration sometime soon, but short of that, I have no idea.

My *theory* is that most posts get some exposure on http://posterous.com/explore - ana maybe a few other places - which would give you a boost in hits that Analytics wouldn't see.

Feb 22, 2009
Foomandoonian said...
(Also, Posterous needs a five minute window to let you edit comments)
Feb 27, 2009
Evan Bartlett said...
Seems like theres a big discrepancy between my posterous stats and my google analytics stats? Any ideas?
Feb 27, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
First of all, when people read your posts through the Posterous reader (like I do) that counts as a view for that post on Posterous. But that would not hit google analytics. Same for RSS feeds.
If people hit your site and have javascript disabled, that would still count as a view on Posterous, but would be ignored by Google analytics
If I go to the main page for your site that will count as a post view for *each* of the posts on that page. Google would count that as one view for that page, and no views for each post.
So the fundamental difference here is google analytics is counting when that particular page is loaded with javascript, while we count anytime that *post* is loaded, on any page anywhere.

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