Mobile Analytics
Today I’ve open sourced my mobile analytics software, under the name “Mobtrack” (This is a really bad name — if anyone has a better one then please let me know!)
The project came out of an idea at work. The sales team would say that they often pitch to people who have no idea how much of their traffic comes from mobile devices. We thought it’d be cool if we could empower people with these statistics, using the device detection technology at Wapple.
The code can be found on the Wapple Google Code repo, or on the Mobtrack Github repo. It’s very much in its infancy, but hopefully it can evolve into a fully fledged piece of analytics software, and give people the statistics they need to make informed decisions about the mobile web. A hosted version may or may not be coming soon — I shall update this page as necessary.
Comments
Subscribe Make commentIf it’s open source, why not try adding it’s code (or make a plugin) in Piwik? You would be able to use front-end and the analytics code from piwik, reducing your work load and just implement your mobile detection code over it.
Just an idea.
Thanks, nice idea. It was written as a little personal project and challenge for myself, but this will definitely go on my long list of things I need to do :)
I want to experiment with polyphasic sleep so hopefully I can extract some more hours from the day to do all these things!
However, I would be a bit wary about including it in an open source project, purely for the fact that it relies heavily on a non-free third party web service to do the mobile detection. I’m not sure how myself or the Piwik guys would feel about mixing free with proprietary like this.
Steve