How do I add real-time analytics of views to my questions and answers in the OS?

Question

It is possible to add some kind of live monitoring or analysis of the views to the questions and/or answers I post here on the stack overflow?

In the background it will be possible to add Analytics to a page that is not ours?

Answer 1

How about using the Stack Exchange Own API ?

Look at a little fragment of what you can do:

Api de respostas:
/answers                  Obtem todas as respostas do site
/answers/{ids}            Obtem respostas identificadas por um set de IDs
/answers/{id}/accept      Dá um accept na resposta identificada [precisa de autorizacao]
/answers/{id}/accept/undo Desfaz o accept
/answers/{ids}/comments   Obtem os comentários nas respostas selecionadas pelos IDs
...

In the documentation has much more.

I pointed this way as a possibility, because even if we do not have methods with data of desired visuliazations, it would be the case to suggest in Meta da SE.

Answer 2

Yes, it is! Using a signal image created primarily for track pages from github.

It’s very simple, just follow the following steps:

Setup instructions

First, log in to your Google Analytics account (if you don’t have an Analytics account, however, get an here) and create a new property:

• Select "Website", use the "Universal Analytics" tracking type"
• Website name: Anything you want (e.g. Stackoverflow Questions & Answers)
• URL of the website: https://ga-beacon.appspot.com/
• Press the "Get Control ID" button, copy the ID to type UA-XXXXX-Xon the following page

Then add a tracking image to the question/answer pages you want to follow:

• https://ga-beacon.appspot.com/UA-XXXXX-X/tipoConta/nome_pergunta
• UA-XXXXX-X should be your tracking ID
• accounttype/question_name is an arbitrary path.

Add this image to your question/answer (if you have both on the same page, just choose one), and you’re done!

Here is the example used for this page:

    ![Beacon][1]

    [1]: https://ga-beacon.appspot.com/UA-50149210-2/PT_StackOverflow/Como_faco_para_adicionar_analise_em_tempo_real_das_visualizacoes_nas_minhas_perguntas_e_respostas_no_SO_QA?pixel

Once everything is configured, install this custom panel in your account for a nice real-time view (as shown in the image below).

And the result is this:

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Edit 14-05-2014:

After be discussed at the Meta.SE, I must add the detail to this reply that the use of this lighthouse or any similar, may be subject to approval by the Terms of Service of the target website.

In the case of the SE, this violates the Stack Exchange Terms of service, Section 3(and):

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