Comments on: Google Translate is growing up

By: John Yunker

John Yunker — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:39:33 +0000

No I didn’t. And without it it’s difficult to know for sure if the widget is getting usage.

By: vhan

vhan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:46:31 +0000

“What I need to know is if Google Analytics can track Google Translate widget usage so I can know which languages are most popular. If anyone knows how to set this up, please contact me.”

Hi John, your initial question is the exact same need I have right now. I was wondering if you ever found a solution?

Thanks.

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By: John Yunker

John Yunker — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:40:31 +0000

Hi Debra,
I just added a new widget that leverages Google translate but also provides local-language feeds. It’s the awkwardly named “Mloovi” widget on the right. Please let me know what you think…
JY

By: Debra

Debra — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:43:11 +0000

Hey–I came back to your site to show my colleagues that machine translation was becoming useful enough to warrant another try as evidenced by your use of the Google translate widget. Lo and behold! I’m not seeing it on your site anymore. Why did you remove it?

By: John Yunker

John Yunker — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:21:30 +0000

Thanks Zac — I’m not sure if the Google Translate module can be modified, but I do need to migrate to the new Analytics code.

By: zaccraven

zaccraven — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:21:53 +0000

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaTrackingOverview.html

By: zaccraven

zaccraven — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:20:07 +0000

“What I need to know is if Google Analytics can track Google Translate widget usage so I can know which languages are most popular. If anyone knows how to set this up, please contact me.”

I havent seen the code for the widget but if you can edit it then you can probably add some extra code to inform googleanaltyics. On the google analytics site they explain how to set up these kind of custom links (its a bit of javascript code you add in).

Otherwise, just post the results of the form to a intermediate page (using php or something) that auto-redirects to google. In your php code you can also collect simple stats on what lang was posted each time.