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user1391152
user1391152

Reputation: 1289

Offline analytics

I have a website that is being run offline and locally (directly) from a machine. Is it possible to capture analytics data, then upload to google at a later time (when there is an internet connection)?

Can anybody point me in the right direction please?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 201

Answers (1)

Jakub Kriz
Jakub Kriz

Reputation: 1529

The experiment

Based on discussion under original question I set up an experiment.

<script>

// March 18 2016 - 12:10
var actualHitTime = 1458199424000;

(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXX-Y', 'auto');

ga('set','page','/timeDelay');  
// Time of experiment is 15:44 
ga('send', 'pageview', {'&qt': Date.now() - actualHitTime}); 

</script>

Result

It works :-)

enter image description here

Documentation

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/parameters#qt

Limitations

From Google:

"Used to collect offline / latent hits. The value represents the time delta (in milliseconds) between when the hit being reported occurred and the time the hit was sent. The value must be greater than or equal to 0. Values greater than four hours may lead to hits not being processed."

Upvotes: 2

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