Event tracking is a great way to understand user behavior and measure success. LucyBot integrates directly with Mixpanel, which has a sizeable free tier. However, you can also use Google Analytics or other event tracking systems.
To add Mixpanel tracking, you'll need to copy the JavaScript code
provided by mixpanel into the file javascript/mixpanel.js (be sure
to remove the <script> tags).
For example:
(function(f,b){if(!b.__SV){var a,e,i,g;window.mixpanel=b;b._i=[];b.init=function(a,e,d){function f(b,h){var a=h.split(".");2==a.length&&(b=b[a[0]],h=a[1]);b[h]=function(){b.push([h].concat(Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments,0)))}}var c=b;"undefined"!==typeof d?c=b[d]=[]:d="mixpanel";c.people=c.people||[];c.toString=function(b){var a="mixpanel";"mixpanel"!==d&&(a+="."+d);b||(a+=" (stub)");return a};c.people.toString=function(){return c.toString(1)+".people (stub)"};i="disable track track_pageview track_links track_forms register register_once alias unregister identify name_tag set_config people.set people.set_once people.increment people.append people.union people.track_charge people.clear_charges people.delete_user".split(" ");
for(g=0;g<i.length;g++)f(c,i[g]);b._i.push([a,e,d])};b.__SV=1.2;a=f.createElement("script");a.type="text/javascript";a.async=!0;a.src="undefined"!==typeof MIXPANEL_CUSTOM_LIB_URL?MIXPANEL_CUSTOM_LIB_URL:"//cdn.mxpnl.com/libs/mixpanel-2-latest.min.js";e=f.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];e.parentNode.insertBefore(a,e)}})(document,window.mixpanel||[]);
mixpanel.init("YOUR_MIXPANEL_ID");You can add the file javascript/tracking.js, and define a function which
sends tracking events to the system of your choice.
The function should take in an event name, and an object with key-value properties.
For example, to use Google Analytics:
/* Paste Google Analytics setup here */
window.lucybot.tracker = function(name, properties) {
for (var key in properties) {
ga('send', {
hitType: 'event',
eventCategory: name,
eventAction: key,
eventLabel: key,
eventValue: properties[key],
})
}
}