MODX EXTRA
Big Brother
Google Analytics dashboard
Creator: Stephane
Boulard (lossendae)
Updated By: markh
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About Big Brother
A Google Analytics dashboard for MODX, brought to you by modmore. Originally developed in 2011 by Stephane Boulard (lossendae), rebuild completely in 2021 for Google Analytics 4
Big Brother v2 only supports Google Analytics v4. To use Big Brother with Google Analytics v3 ("Universal Analytics"), you need to install Big Brother v1.5 instead.
Learn about the difference between Google Analytics v3 ("Universal Analytics") and v4.
Big Brother gives you a quick overview of the most important metrics from Google Analytics, directly on the MODX dashboard.
The following data is provided:
- Line-chart showing your daily visitors in the last 4 weeks, compared against the previous period
- Number of sessions, page views, unique visitors, average engagement rate, and average time on site over the past 4 weeks
- Acquisition sources
- Most popular pages by page views
- Top countries by unique users
Authorization with your Google account is easy and secure; just follow the steps when prompted to authorize. The information to access information for an authorized profile never leaves your site. It's also possible to configure custom credentials.
Have issues authenticating your Google Analytics account on a site that used v1.3.2 or earlier versions? Remove the bigbrother.native_app_client_id and `bigbrother.native_app_client_secret` system settings from your site, and reinstall Big Brother.
Information
New in Big Brother 2.0.2
Big Brother v2 is a complete rewrite for use with Google Analytics v4. If your property uses Google Analytics v3 ("Universal Analytics"), downgrade to v1.5 instead.
Big Brother 2.0.2-pl
Released on 2021-08-03
- Fix issue installing guzzle7 due to incorrect version requirement
Big Brother 2.0.1-pl
Released on 2021-08-03
- Remove guzzlehttp/guzzle from Big Brother, instead depend on the new guzzle7 package to avoid dependency conflicts (https://modx.com/extras/package/guzzle7)
Big Brother 2.0.0-pl
Released on 2021-08-02
- Bump minimum PHP version to 7.2; this matches the updated MODX3 minimum version and resolves a Guzzle version conflict
- On MODX3 alpha4+, use the core-provided PSR7 Client with the Google SDK
- Update dependencies (uglify-js 3.14.1, chart.js 3.5.0, luxon 1.28, google/analytics-data 0.5.1, google/analytics-admin 0.3.0)
- Fix v1 widget not being replaced correctly on upgrade
- Remove v1 menu item on upgrade
Big Brother 2.0.0-dev4
Released on 2021-06-08
- Fail installation if bcmath extension is not loaded; this is a requirement in the Google Protobuf dependency
- Catch API errors in listing accounts/properties, generating reports, verifying oAuth code, and refreshing access token [#47]
- Downgrade some dependencies to allow installation on 7.1 and up (once requirement goes up to 7.3+ this can be reverted)
Big Brother 2.0.0-dev3
Released on 2021-06-07
- Make sure v1 widget is removed on upgrade to v2, attempt to automatically migrate
- Adjust the build to be more in line with our other packages
Big Brother 2.0.0-dev2
Released on 2021-06-07
- Fix broken lexicons in the dashboard widget selection
- Fix requirements disallowing MODX3 (left-over from 1.5)
Big Brother 2.0.0-dev1
Released on 2021-06-07
This is the first development build of Big Brother v2, containing 6 dashboard widgets.
Big Brother v2 is a complete rewrite to support Google Analytics v4 and MODX3. It cannot be used with Universal Analytics. It can be used on MODX 2.8 and up.