analysis by specific demographics & interest - the piwik way #6090
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not sure what we could do here. I guess to track demographics the best way right now is to use Custom Variables of 'visit' scope, which is useful to set user attributes when they are know. If you have more idea feel free to post here |
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Demographics is almost a standard requirement these days. Even at a basic level like how gender (male/female), age range, and other common metrics. Gender: "Female," "Male," and "Unknown" Segmenting analytics gives everyone a better understanding of what works and what needs improvement (or action). |
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Unfortunately we can't make Demographics available in Piwik, as we don't have the data and likely never will. we can re-open later if such data becomes available via some browser API or so. |
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In the meantime you need to use Custom Dimensions: https://piwik.org/docs/custom-dimensions/ and set the Age/Gender info yourself from your internal data sets |
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Going with another platform, but thanks for replying.
If I have to enter the information myself then it is not really working the
way it should.
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In the meantime you need to use Custom Dimensions:
https://piwik.org/docs/custom-dimensions/ and set the Age/Gender info
yourself from your internal data sets
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You mean with Google analytics? or what other platform offers demographics?
We just don't have the data, it's not hard to understand I suppose |
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hey @mattab , I just wanted to know out of curiosity, you mentioned that you do not have the data, but most probably browsers and cookies have it. how do GA collect them in first place? |
Google is making analysis by specific demographics & interests
like gender, age, sports etc
They are using their ad/display network to determine what "characteristics" the visitor have.
e.g. people who are visiting often websites which are (from statistics point of view) more interesting for women are "marked as women" in there google coockie.
see: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2799357?hl=en
Piwik can't do that because we have no ad/display network to gather these information.
But of course it would sometimes be interesting how people with different demographics & interests behave on a site.
On websites with a login area this could be made possible if one could add some specific anonymous parts from information people provide in their "profile" to their piwik vistor id.
e.g.
gender:
(for ideas see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/818203/does-anyone-know-of-a-good-library-for-mapping-a-persons-name-to-his-or-her-gen)
age
Report function to make demographics specific analysis possible should be the next step...
What do you thing of this?
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