Comments on: 88% of Universities UK members use Google Analytics: How I calculated the answer in under 10 minutes

By: Martin Hawksey

Martin Hawksey — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:46:05 +0000

‘Using’ being the operative word. How many institutions are actually using analytics as part of their informed decision making?
Martin

By: Paul Walk

Paul Walk — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:30:34 +0000

This demonstrates that many institutions installed the Google Analytics JavaScript call in their site’s source at some point. It doesn’t follow that they are using Google Analytics…

By: Martin Hawksey

Martin Hawksey — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 07:45:02 +0000

But how long did it take you? ;-) I did wonder about accuracy. When I’m on a PC next it would be worth doing a comparison

By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:50:23 +0000

Hmmm, I also got different results. My uni table has 136 records, and I found 115 GA tracking codes…

By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:47:45 +0000

I added a table to https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/uk_university_autodiscoverable_rss_feeds/ that lists the UA code for each uni. There was one site that seemed to break mechanise, somehow – chiuni.ac.uk