BlogEngine.NET most popular pages widget using Google Analytics
I finished off my BlogEngine.NET migration yesterday missing a couple of useful sections from the previous incarnation of this blog. The first is a list of the most popular posts based on Google Analytics data. I've just finished porting this from a UserControl to a widget for BlogEngine.NET. To use this just download and extract this zip file to your widgets directory:
MostPopularFromGA.zip (5.22 kb)
You can see the widget in action under the Most Popular heading to the left if you're reading this post on the blog.
Most of the settings should be pretty obvious. The Google Analytics profile is the exception. This isn't the ID included in your tracking code. To get the profile log in to Google Analytics and click Edit next to the profile you want to use. At the top of the page you'll see a Profile ID. You need to use this number prefixed by ga: (i.e. ga:1234567). Once you have this and your account credentials entered you should be up and running.
The Post must match settings is a regular expression used to filter the Google Analytics report to only include blog posts. The default value corresponds to a default BlogEngine.NET install and only includes pages that start .../post/ (the regular expression is ^/post/). If your posts are under .../blog/posts/ then just update accordingly (^/blog/posts/). If you want to include the most popular pages regardless of the path just leave this setting blank.
If you have any questions or feature requests leave a comment below.
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- Migrating from Blogger to BlogEngine.NET
- Migrating a C# Integration from GA3 to GA4
- Geotagging posts in BlogEngine.NET
- The curious case of the missing slugs (in BlogEngine.net 2.8)
- Converting Blogger ATOM export to BlogML
(Published to the Fediverse as: BlogEngine.NET most popular pages widget using Google Analytics #code #blogengine.net #googleanalytics A BlogEngine.NET most popular posts widget using data from the Google Analytics API. )
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