First of all: I’ve been using Piwik for years and it’s awesome! Thanks for everyone how contributes to this project!
I have a video site (like a tiny youtube) and want to track the video views.
As far as I know I can do this either with goals or custom variables.
I tested both and it is was no problem to extend my video player to call piwik to manually reach a goal or to pass a custom variable.
So far no problem.
The think is: as far as I understand the concept of goals the reached goal is independent from the page where it was archived.
So I can not see which video was for example started (I have the goals “video started by user” and “user watched whole video”).
First I thought I can add the two goals and can later see where they were reached (for example on http://mydomain/watch/video123).
But as it seem I would have to add two goals for each video, to be able to see which of the many videos were watched (the goals for each video would be for example: “video123 started by user” and “user watched whole video video123”).
Is this correct? Or is it possible to only have two gaols and use them for every video (and be able to see how often the goals for http://mydomain/watch/videoXYZ was reached and what that is in % of all the impressions of this URL)?
And secondly:
I would like to give the users access to this stats. What would be the cleverest solution for that? As far as I looked into it I could add a separate website in Piwik for every of my users (which would be bad because I guess then I couldn’t see the stats for the whole website at once because it is split in many piwik sites).
Or I could have only one site in piwik but give a custom variable “ownerOfVideo” everytime a video of a user is watched. I could then use the API to give the user access to the stats by passing the “ownerOfVideo” value along witch the APIs segmentation feature when i grab the data.
I would be grateful for any advice! Thanks!