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Tracking email newsletter with piwik

I want to track email newsletter especially with piwik. Now there's the following image tracking code given (source):

<!-- Piwik Image Tracker -->
<img src="http://analytics.mysite.net/piwik.php?idsite={$IDSITE}amp;rec=1" style="border:0" alt="" />
<!-- End Piwik -->

I want to add something like _rcn to attach a campaign, to assign the email opening. The code could look like that (web beacon):

<img src="http://analytics.mysite.net/piwik.php?idsite=1&rec=1&_rcn=mycampaign" style="border: 0; display: none; width: 0px; height: 0px; margin: 0;padding: 0" alt="" />

But that doesn't work... Any Ideas?

Solution

  • Finally I found something. My first attempt was right xD

    <!-- Piwik Image Tracker -->
<img src="http://analytics.mysite.net/piwik.php?idsite={$IDSITE}&action_name=test&_rcn=testcampaign&rec=1" style="border:0" alt="" />
<!-- End Piwik -->

    Thats working o.O

    Just set {$IDSITE} to your site id, for example: 1

    Parameters:

    rec – (required) The parameter &rec=1 is required to force the request to be recorded
idsite – (required) Defines the Website ID being tracked
_rcn - the campaign name

    More: http://piwik.org/docs/tracking-api/

    The action_name ist tracked as simple site, I don't know why and the request ist shown as visitor. AND with _rcn you can set a campaign.

    Thats it.