With the release of Verge HTML5, there are some exciting and important new changes to the statistics data model. These changes are in effect as of February 19, 2013.
As of March 31, 2014 we are now expanding the statistics on offer for our Verge HTML5 viewer, including new HTML5 heatmaps! These changes are reflected below, but you may also see the associated announcement here for more information:
HTML5 Statistics Updates Q1-2014
As of March 31, 2014 we are now expanding the statistics on offer for our Verge HTML5 viewer, including new HTML5 heatmaps! These changes are reflected below, but you may also see the associated announcement here for more information:
HTML5 Statistics Updates Q1-2014
HTML5 - refers to data collected from a Publication using a HTML5 Viewer. Publications with a HTML5 viewer are accessible on all supported devices; desktop as well as mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
Any metrics not noted are unaffected by the release. Although there are more statistics available from a desktop Flash Viewer using a HTML5 desktop viewer will give 100% consistency across your analytics.
Summary of Metric Availability by Viewer Type
Flash Viewers (Desktop/laptop only) |
HTML5 Viewers (incl. all mobile) |
|
Visits Total, first visit, latest visit, bounce visits |
X | X |
Unique visitors | X | X |
Device Visits by device type |
X | X |
Page Views Total, average, and unique pages viewed during a visit; most-read pages |
X | X |
Time Total spent in Zmag, average time spent per visit, length of a visit, average time spent per page |
X | X |
Zoom Clicks, time spent in zoom view, zoom percentage |
X | X* |
Referrer Host and URL |
X | X |
Link Outgoing/external links |
X | X |
Search Search Engine traffic, internal searches, search engine searches |
X | X |
Geographics Visits by country, region and city |
X | |
Commerce Wish List Funnel, Shopping Cart Funnel, Check out data and product performance grid |
X | X |
Social sharing | X | X |
Facebook visits Visits from embedded Facebook publications |
X | |
PDF downloads | X | |
Print count | X | |
Heatmaps | X | X |
Enabling External Statistics Google Analytics, Omniture |
X
|
X
|
* Although these are now tracked in the HTML5 viewer, these clicks are not sent to Google Analytics if External Statistics has been enabled.