Im working on a custom google spreadsheet analytics dashboard.
Here's the situation, I'm trying to get specific info:
Sessions, users, pageviews pageviews/sessions, avg session duration, bouncerate and % new sessions.
The thing is I almost have all the right information except for AVG Session duration and Pageviews/sessions.
Here's a screenshot of the problem:
http://puu.sh/i2rGf/37b2dab3fb.png (its the yellow and the pink one)
Google returns the value's in seconds where you easily devide by 86400
well, I've tried that and no result.
Its kinda weird because everyone is talking about a result like 1234.1234
but mine is 1234.1234.1234.1234 ?
Ideas on where the problem might be?
Check the locale in your spreadsheet settings. It needs to be US to match the GA data being sent.
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I making a SPA (single page application) and want to show the number of online users and app visits in the admin panel like this:
online users: 5 people
Today visits: 12 people.
This Year visits: 5263 people.
I don't know what the proper procedure is for implementing this.
What I'm doing as a solution is to make an endpoint at the server for computing number of online users and visits. In the client I've created a random string as UserKey and saved it into localStorage.Then I've used setInterval to send a request with UserKey payload to the endpoint every 5 minutes. This endpoint calculates the number of online users and visits based on UserKey and current date and time. Calculating Is not 100% Accurate but it's satisfactory for me.
I'm not sure if I'm in the right way. Please share me your advice.
You can simply do it with Navigator.onLine :
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Websockets (pusher) should be a right solution for your case. This way you don't have to poll every 5 minutes.
See https://pusher.com/docs/channels/getting_started/javascript/?ref=docs-index
It is free but just for 50 users if you want more users you can also choose to start an own Websocket server. Which is a little more complicated (without external libraries of course).
Why are the counts I see in my database different than what I see in Google Analytics? The goal conversion number showing in Google Analytics is much lower than what I see in the database. This is the case for several months.
Few reasons here
Sampled data vs. unsampled data: You can read about here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1042498?hl=en - For API work i normally use a web query explorer to verify that my API call's are being sent and responses match to verify the data: https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/explorer/
Adblockers: You might get hits/submissions from people where they are using an ad blocker, hence more entries in Database or Google Analytics.
Users vs. Sessions vs. Hits: You are looking at Unique Visitors/Sessions in Google Analytics instead of the total number of "Events", Not sure how your Goal is setup but best to use events and look at "Total Events" and "Unique Events" to get a sense.
Implementation: You may be firing JavaScript after the person has hit the button without waiting for the page change, can happen on some sites where you take them to a thank-you page or something. Best to check how this is setup and the order in which tag fires and page works.
I have just developed a mobile apps which basically for users to upload, download photoes, add, update, search , delete, refresh transaction, and query report. Every action need submit request to Appengine Server.
I am using CloudEndpoint, oAuth2.0 and Objectify to implement this appengine. When I'm testing alone, The instance hours has used up 40% . How much billing for instance can I imagine if 100 people using this app? How does it calculate the instance hours? by request of submitting? or by time of instance working on multiple request??
is it worth?
If my target is more than 100 users to using my apps. Is it worth? Could you please share me what exactly I misunderstood about this instance.
Thanks
As others have commented, the question is very hard to answer. The easiest answer I can think of is by looking at the response header "X-AppEngine-Estimated-CPM-US-Dollars". You have to be a member of the Cloud Platform Project (see the Permissions page in Cloud Platform developers console) to see this header (you can check it in your browser).
The header tells you what the cost of the request was in US Dollars multiplied by 1000.
But think of it as an indication. If your request spawns other processes such as tasks, those costs are not included in the number you see in that header.
The relationship between Frontend instance hours and the number of requests is not linear either. For one, you will be charged a number of minutes (not sure if it's 15 minutes) when the instance spins up. And there are other performance settings that determine how this works.
Your best bet is to run the app for a while against real users and find out what the costs were in a given month or so.
I have billing enabled on my project, and have even issued a $10 payment just to test out the process (it works). But I am unable to change my daily budget on the google app engine dashboard.
I go to "Billing Status" section.
I am entering the new daily budget and I hit the "submit" button.
I am getting the not very informative error: "There was an error processing the request".
So I'm stuck without being able to update my budget, and my quota has exceeded for instance hours. My users are receiving errors and I am losing money, without any option of reaching out to Official Google Support (tried to email support - it can take up to a couple of days for them to get back to you, and the phone number requires a PIN that only premium customers get. becoming a premium customer also takes a couple of days...).
Any suggestions?
I have already tried:
making sure I have only one Google account signed in while changing the budget
replacing payment method
adding another user as a billing admin and changing the budget with that user
Nothing seems to work.
UPDATE: After reaching out to a developer advocate from Google, I found out that they are aware of this issue. They claim to have solved it last night, and for me the bug is now solved.
I work on a google app engine application which currently has about 4000 users and I want to write a handler to send email to all users.
The problem is that app engine has limitations on getting entities from datastore. For example, the max number of rows which can be returned from datastore is 1000.
I can get all users incrementally by using a loop and limit, offset parameters of gql. But this time the max lifetime of a handler which is 30 seconds limits me.
I made some research to overcome this problem and I have ended up with backends. But it seems to me backends usage is different I mean it is not appropriate for this operation.
How can I achieve this task?
Thanks in advance..
from google.appengine.api import mail
mail.send_mail(sender="Example.com Support <support#example.com>",
to="Albert Johnson <Albert.Johnson#example.com>",
subject="Your account has been approved",
body="""
Dear Albert:
Your example.com account has been approved. You can now visit
http://www.example.com/ and sign in using your Google Account to
access new features.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
The example.com Team
""")
Task Queues give you a 10-minute deadline. See the documentation
You can get more than 1000 items in one request. Just avoid using fetch and try this:
entities = Entity.all() # <-- no fetch
for e in entities:
mail.send_mail()
This will keep on getting users until the 10 minute limit run out: a lot of entities and more than enough for 4000 users.