Collect analytics data

Before we can send data about user behavior in the portal to a service for analysis, you need to collecthat data.

See the following topics for information about how to do this.

• How Active Site Analytics data is represented in the portal
  The data for the analysis of user behavior is retrieved from markup embedded in the portal pages.
• Write an aggregator for Active Site Analytics
  We can write our own scripts to retrieve the data for Active Site Analytics from the portal themes and skins and connect to the analytics service provider. Such scripts are called aggregators.
• Add an Active Site Analytics aggregator to a portal page
  Portal administrators can manage the aggregators. They can assign an aggregator to one or more portal labels or pages.
• Instrument a theme for Active Site Analytics
  The portal theme provided with IBM WebSphere Portal is prepared and suitable for use with Active Site Analytics. We can also create our own custom theme to use the Active Site Analytics functionality.
• Configure an aggregator at runtime
  To configure the behavior of an aggregator at runtime, we can pass additional meta data values to the aggregator.

Parent: Analyze user behavior by Active Site Analytics
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