Urchin/Google Analytics Statistics

VP-ASP 6.00 comes with Google Analytics / Urchin support built in (not available in FREE version).

What is Google Analytics?

Google Analytics is a new service from Google, based on Urchin (a leading analytics company) technology, that allows you to track visitors and their movement patterns through your website.

From Google's website:

"Learn how visitors interact with your website and identify the navigational bottlenecks that keep them from completing your conversion goals. Find out how profitable your keywords are across search engines and campaigns. Pinpoint where your best customers come from and which markets are most profitable to you. Google Analytics gives you this and more through easy-to-understand visually enhanced reports."

How do I sign up for Google Analytics?

Currently access to Google Analytics is by invitation only, due to the huge interest it sparked when first released.

You can sign up to be notified by Google when new registrations are being accepted here -

http://www.google.com/analytics/sign_up.html

How do I set up Google Analytics in my VP-ASP site?

Setting up your VP-ASP to be Google Analytics ready is easy!

1. Simply login to your Administration and go to the Setup tab.
   
2. In the search box, enter the word urchin.
   
3. Two entries will appear on your screen -
   xurchinstats - Set this to be Yes, to turn on the Analytics tracking code.
   xurchinacctno - Enter your Google Analytics account number here.
   
4. Click the Continue button at the bottom of the page.

Your site is now Google Analytics enabled!

TROUBLESHOOTING

Problem: I have set up SSL in VP-ASP, and it's displaying a certificate error pop-up when it goes to a SSL page

Solution: To prevent the pop-up error from occurring, you also need to access the Google Analytics Javascript file over a secure socket.

Open shopproductssubs.asp and go to around line 1811, and change the line to:
SCRIPT src="https://ssl.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type=text/javascript>/SCRIPT>