How to Track Highlighted Text on Your Site with Google Analytics
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Re: How to Track Highlighted Text on Your Site with Google Analytics
#2This is smart. Wish I'd thought of this. I love hacking GA to do fun stuff. My recent favourite is tracking real page load time (i.e. not just server response times but actual user load times in the wild).
Re: How to Track Highlighted Text on Your Site with Google Analytics
#3How about, when someone highlights text on your site, it immediately searches itself and presents the results in the margin? (Without causing the page to reflow or otherwise getting in the way.) Perhaps with links to search Google/Wikipedia/etc as well? Too creepy?
Re: How to Track Highlighted Text on Your Site with Google Analytics
#4How about, when someone highlights text on your site, it immediately searches itself and presents the results in the margin? (Without causing the page to reflow or otherwise getting in the way.) Perhaps with links to search Google/Wikipedia/etc as well? Too creepy?
My MSc thesis was on exactly this - adaptive web sites. It's a fascinating research topic.
Re: How to Track Highlighted Text on Your Site with Google Analytics
#5How about, when someone highlights text on your site, it immediately searches itself and presents the results in the margin? (Without causing the page to reflow or otherwise getting in the way.) Perhaps with links to search Google/Wikipedia/etc as well? Too creepy?
My MSc thesis was on exactly this - adaptive web sites. It's a fascinating research topic.
Did you ever implement anything that we could play with?
Re: How to Track Highlighted Text on Your Site with Google Analytics
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
My MSc thesis was on exactly this - adaptive web sites. It's a fascinating research topic.
Did you ever implement anything that we could play with?
sadly not. I had it running on my own blog for a few weeks, collecting data which I then analysed. I'd have loved to have got a nice plugin put together for it all but I didn't get it that far.
Got a distinction for it though! You can read a little about it here: http://www.puremango.co.uk/2009/06/adaptive-web-sites/
Re: How to Track Highlighted Text on Your Site with Google Analytics
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
My MSc thesis was on exactly this - adaptive web sites. It's a fascinating research topic.
Did you ever implement anything that we could play with?
the new york times has had something similar to this for years.
you can highlight words and it will show a "question box" that you can click to see more information about the word, google search, etc. it's displayed inline so you don't need to navigate away.
it's a nice idea, but it's terribly annoying.
Re: How to Track Highlighted Text on Your Site with Google Analytics
#8How about, when someone highlights text on your site, it immediately searches itself and presents the results in the margin? (Without causing the page to reflow or otherwise getting in the way.) Perhaps with links to search Google/Wikipedia/etc as well? Too creepy?
nytimes.com used to do something like this. It was super annoying.
Re: How to Track Highlighted Text on Your Site with Google Analytics
#9This is smart. Wish I'd thought of this. I love hacking GA to do fun stuff. My recent favourite is tracking real page load time (i.e. not just server response times but actual user load times in the wild).
Perhaps you can give us an example on how to implement this. I would be really interested in it.
Re: How to Track Highlighted Text on Your Site with Google Analytics
#10This is smart. Wish I'd thought of this. I love hacking GA to do fun stuff. My recent favourite is tracking real page load time (i.e. not just server response times but actual user load times in the wild).
Any chance you could share that knowledge? That sounds fantastically awesome!