How to monitor your C# application via Google Analytics or Matomo/Piwik
How to add application analytics to your C# (c-sharp) desktop software.
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Matomo (Piwik) gets new SDK for tracking desktop software applications
SoftMeter now has Matomo as an additional data collection and reporting platform for desktop software usage analytics.
Google analytics for desktop applications (free)
How can you connect your desktop application to Google Analytics and get application analytics for free? (As you do on your website)
Pre-configured dashboards for application usage analytics
We prepared several preconfigured dashboards for your application usage analytics that you can immediatelly use as soon as you release your software with our SoftMeter application analytics library.
Software Usage Analytics for free with SoftMeter + Google analytics
Google Analytics is the most popular platform for website statistics.
If we imagine our desktop or mobile software as a website, shouldn't we be using the same successful analytics platform also for our software usage analytics?
This is the idea that sparked the creation of SoftMeter, our software usage analytics library for Windows, MacOS and IOS.
IOS app analytics: How to monitor the usage of your IOS app for free
Mobile application analytics tools: SoftMeter works is the missing link from your application to Google Analytics.
Read here how to add mobile application analytics to your IOS app.
What are the limits of the free Google Analytics account for website traffic and application analytics?
A summary of the limits of the free Google Analytics accounts.
Software Usage Analytics tools for desktop software and mobile apps
Comparison of runtime usage analytics for software (application analytics tools and mobile application analytics tools): Revulytics/Trackerbird, Nalpeiron, Appdynamics, Deskmetrics, Telerik analytics, and more.
Application analytics dashboard | Free analytics for your Windows or MacOS application
Application analytics dashboard: a quick view into the usage statistics of your software application.
Installaware: How to add installation analytics today
This blog describes how you can add installation analytics to your existing Installaware script.
With the installation analytics you will be able to see the daily/monthly/yearly number of installations and uninstalls, the operating systems where the installations occur, the countries of your users and much more.
Checklist: How to become a hero at your software development house
Application analytics is a new practice and still only very few desktop applications use.
It is unique and powerful because it allows you, for the first time, to see beyond the download of your desktop software.
Here is the opportunity: You can become a development hero by implementing this new practice into your software.
Track your Delphi/Pascal application with Google Analytics, today
You can monitor the usage of your Delphi/Pascal GUI desktop application with Google Analytics, using SoftMeter. SoftMeter brings free Delphi analytics to your Delph or pascal programs.
Installation Analytics: Track Installs vs Uninstalls vs Software version for free
Indie software developers are used to measure their website traffic. With the new Installation Analytics tools, they can now also measure their software installations and removals.
Installation analytics for shareware and desktop software applications
Installation analytics is the technique of gathering installation statistics directly from the distributed software installers.
The developers can see even in real-time the stream of installations and uninstalls of their software, understand the impact of their advertising, detect remote problems immediately after the release.
Having installation analytics in your software is essential for your success in this brutally competitive internet.
How to track your program's exceptions via Google Analytics
Our desktop software analytics library (SoftMeter) allows you to monitor your software program's exceptions by sending them automatically to Google Analytics.
Installation analytics for Inno Setup
It's time you see some instalaltion analytics for your shareware or other types of desktop software.
With SoftMeter, you can monitor your software's distribution and installation analytics using InnoSetup, and Google Analytics. A free and easy to implement solution.
How to create and test a Mobile App reporting view in Google Analytics
The "Mobile App" view type is a relatively new view type in Google Analytics. It is used to track usage statistics of mobile (IOS, Android) apps, while with the help our libAppTelemetry, it can also track usage analytics of desktop (Windows, Mac OS) software.
How can I exclude my own usage statistics traffic from the SoftMeter (product analytics) reports?
Developers who use our usage statistics library (SoftMeter) in their desktop programs have several ways to exclude their own traffic from the Google Analytics reporting.
What is Application Analytics, Usage Analytics, Runtime statistics?
Usage analytics for software is the remote collection, measurement, analysis and reporting of the usage patterns of a software product. But why do developers need it for the success of their software?
Can I track more than one shareware program with SoftMeter and Google Analytics?
SoftMeter is a free solution to track the distribution/installations/usage of your software, via Google Analytics.
The SoftMeter library for desktop software sends real-time hits from your desktop software to Google Analytics.
There are two ways to monitor more than one software products via the same Google Analytics property.
Announcement: See your shareware usage statistics with SoftMeter and Google Analytics
Shareware developers can now monitor the usage of their programs via Google Analytics, in the same way they monitor their website traffic.
This is the announcement of v0.5.2 of SoftMeter (former libAppTelemetry) that brings this capability to indie programmers (Windows, MacOS X).
Google analytics reporting examples for tracking software/shareware desktop applications
By using SoftMeter in your shareware/software application you can see runtime statistics of your desktop program via the Google Analytics platform.
As a shareware developer, you are probably already using Google analytics for your website traffic as it is a free and reliable solution. With our SoftMeter library, you can now also monitor the usage of your software program.
In this article, you can see examples of the reports that you will get.