Get Statistics On Your Site!
It’s been a long time coming, and we’re proud to announce that as of today, you can activate statistics on your site.
We’ve integrated with Google Analytics (a free, remarkably robust webstats system) to make it so you can see every visit to your site. It’s pretty deeply integrated, so unlike most flash sites that only track views to your homepage, your site will actually show you pretty much everything your visitors click on.
We track a “hit” for:
- every page view (main pages and sub pages)
- every document view (PDF’s, Word docs, etc)
- every time someone launches the Sermon Player or Calendar
- every sermon that gets listened to
Even if you have multiple sermon pages (maybe one for adults and one for youth), it will track them separately, so you really can see everything accurately.
If you haven’t seen Google Analytics before, you’ll be amazed at what you can see. Not only can you see the number of visitors you’re getting, but also where in the world they’re coming from, what sites are sending people your way and even what percentage of your visitors have Mac’s instead of PC’s.
Get your webstats here...
There’s a wealth of information that’s kind of fun to play around with, even if you’re not a “numbers” person.
To activate webstats, go to your dashboard and click the giant “activate web statistics” button. You’ll sign up for google analytics, paste the code into the dashboard and you’ll be good to go. Clicks will start being tracked once you activate.
Have fun tracking!
Posted on December 12th, 2008 under Company News by Ben with 8 comments.
8 Comments
This is absolutely awesome! I have used Google Analytics on my personal family/ministry site and the stats are pretty sweet.
With hopes to win the Collide competition for a Clover site for our ministry, I for one am pretty dag gum excited about the integration of GA to track movement on the site.
What’s on the front next for development? I am particularly interested in the staff section. Will it be password protected? Can you have more than one “staff” page?
We are SO PSYCHED that Clover has added this feature!
We have received so many compliments on the look and feel of our site from that group that “uncloaks” and lets us know they’ve seen it…but it’s made us hungry for more!
Long live Clover!
Nice work guys. This is a welcome addition to our site!
Thanks!
Don’t have a site yet (but looking to buy one from y’all this week possibly) but this is the single most important feature that was missing in my mind.
After using GA to show the possibilities of a church website over a six month trial period I was worried that not being able to show the leadership the impact of our next (Clover) site in raw numbers. This is great now that it’s been released.
I am curious how it was implemented though. On our prior Wordpress trial site I placed the GA code in the footer to track movement. How is it being implemented within the Clover sites? Or is it a super duper trade secret?
Thanks!
Hey Josh – I’m glad that the stats will be so useful for you. We’re definitely excited to have them as a feature.
The way they’re implemented is pretty much just like Wordpress or any other site – the code is put in the footer like you’d expect. And as always, we try to handle all the details for you, so it’ll work whether you paste in the “new tracking code”, the “legacy tracking code”, or just your analytics account number.
Jimmy, to answer your question about future development, we’re actually working on something pretty big…
Up ’til now we’ve been releasing one feature at a time (documents, videos, webstats, etc), but we’re currently working on a major new release. Our plans are to redesign the entire Greenhouse and add a bunch of new features all at the same time. I don’t want to commit too much because we’re changing things a bit as we go, but needless to say, it will be a sweet revamp when it’s done.
Also, we’ll be adding one or two more quick things in the mean-time. The big one that will happen soon is the ability to duplicate calendar events so you don’t have to type in your sunday service over and over. (Sorry to everyone who is currently having to do that!)
Thanks for the awesome more-than-expected answer. I am not even a Clover user (yet) and am pretty excited about what Clover is and about. Your reply even gets me more excited!
You guys and gals at Clover have really pioneered something amazing. I am looking forward to watch the development as you pave the way enabling ministries to effectively and creatively show the world Jesus through the web!
I love the new GA. My blogging buddies use it all the time to “wow” us with numbers, strange cities that visit and other fun stats. Being a stat guy myself, I am psyched about this feature.