In a previous post on installing Google Analytics, I noted that users should be cautious to make sure that the Google Analytics tags are properly installed on every page of the site. Normally a global include like a header or footer accomplishes this pretty well, but there are often those outlying pages that get you.
Luckily enough, a young man by the name of Chris Naykki has created a tool based on Google’s Site Map algorithm to crawl your pages by reading your links and then check every page to ensure it sees the Google Analytics tracking code.
http://www.naykki.com/phpcrawl/
For those of you who haven’t read my previous post, why this is important is because the check for tracking code that Google Analytics does upon setup only checks your homepage. I’ve used the tool for a few sites now and it works incredibly well!
Apparently colleagues have told me about a few pieces of software out there that can do the same thing like Web Link Validator, but I haven’t been able to see these things in action.
If anyone knows of more tools like this please feel free to share!
I have developed the Web Analytics Solution Profiler, a free Firefox extension that ease the tagging process. It’s still in beta and aready detects the major players in the field. Future versions will include site crawling and diagnostic.
Check it out at http://wasp.immeria.net
Stephane Hamel
http://blog.immeria.net
Thanks Stephane! I’ve actually used WASP already and I love having an alternative to HTTP Watch out there but are you working on something that does link crawling too? Have the trouble I have right now is having to answer to whether or not a whole site is tagged with a vendor not just a single page.
P.S. Are you heading to eMetrics?
Thanks for posting,
Mike
Actually, I’m really close to release a new version and after that I will be working on the crawling aspect of the tool. Shouldn’t be to hard to do now that I have nailed the other stuff.
Sadly, I will miss eMetrics… couldn’t afford to go twice in the same year. But I’ll be there next time!
Stephane
http://blog.immeria.net
Awesome! Can’t wait to see the new version, let me know and I’ll make sure to post an entry about it!
Mike–
I am the author that you are mentioning — glad you found my tool useful. Just to make some notes, though, that this isn’t a production ready tool
How did you find my tool? It isn’t index on any search engines…
Thanks
Chris
In response to Chris’ post…
Thanks for writing Chris! It’s a pleasure to meet the author of such a nifty tool
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To answer your question, I can’t honestly remember how I found your tool…but I loved it when I found it! I’d be very interested in talking to you some more about it when you have a second – feel free to e-mail me at mikesukmanowsky@oddinteractive.com.
Great job on a pre-production tool!