unl/wdntemplates — Issue #134: Analytics tracking of Media Hub items on different pages within a single website.
Author: saltybeagle
Created: 2011-11-15 19:31:04+00:00
State: open

Currently its being tested to track play and stop functions from videos placed
on webpages by embedded codes fomr Media Hub. (I would also like to see
"completed" as a feature tracked.)

Sometimes we place the same embedded video on different pages of our website.
The same video maybe appropriate for a webpage about a student major such as
Fisheries and Wildlife and also on a researach webpage about pallid sturgeon
populations. I would like to beable to distiguish how many "plays"
occurred on the F&W major page and how many occured on the populations
page.

In some of the testing I have noticed that repeated visits to a page that has
several different videos on and playing each of the videos different number of
times does not report the correct number of plays or stops for each video even
on one page. On http://snr.unl.edu/test/markvideo1.asp I have played the
bottom two vidoes a different number of times to their completion; these are
the only place on my website that these videos are embedded. The number of
times the videos are reported played in Analytics is less than the number of
times that I played them.

I have also tried playing videos in the Media Hub itself. These are not
tracked in my Analytics account. I didn't think that they would show, but just
wanted to let you know.
Originally submitted by: Mark Mesarch