Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

ABalytics.js is a pure javascript library allows you to do simple A/B testing working only on your client-side code. All data is registered as custom variables in your website Google Analytics profile, so you don’t need to configure anything server side.

You simply mark the html elements you want to test on with a class, the substitution is automatic. There is no need to set anything up server side, the data is stored on Google Analytics. You can conduct multiple, independent experiments at the same time. Each experiment will use a custom variable slot. It is pure javascript, you just need to include GA.

Requirements: JavaScript, Google Analytics
Demo: https://github.com/danmaz74/ABalytics
License: MIT License

Dashing is a Sinatra based framework that lets you build beautiful dashboards. You can use premade widgets, or fully create your own with css, html, and coffeescript. Widgets harness the power of data bindings to keep things simple.

You can also use the API to push data to your dashboards, or make use of a simple ruby DSL for fetching data. It supports Drag & Drop interface for re-arranging your widgets. You can host your dashboards on Heroku in less than 30 seconds. Dashing was originally created at Shopify for displaying custom dashboards on TVs around the office.

Requirements: Ruby 1.9+
Download Link: http://dashingdemo.herokuapp.com/sample
License: MIT License

Countly is a real-time, open source mobile analytics application. It collects data from mobile phones, and visualizes this information to analyse mobile application usage and end-user behaviour.

Once you open the dashboard, you’ll be amazed to see how easy it’s to monitor your data with splendid graphics. Countly dashboard shows you everything at once in an elegant way. No need to dig in several pages to find the information you need. You can also track unlimited number of applications with Countly, and switch between your apps, games and ebooks easily.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://count.ly/dashboard
License: License Free

FnordMetric is a highly configurable (and pretty fast) realtime app/event tracking dashboard based on ruby eventmachine and redis. You define your own plotting and counting functions as ruby blocks.

FnordMetric gives you a live dashboard, that shows who is using your app in realtime. You can select a single user and follow them step by step as well. Best of all, it’s free for download and you can install it on your own server.

Requirements: -
Demo: https://github.com/paulasmuth/fnordmetric
License: License Free

Flow is a traffic visualization like none you’ve ever seen. It’s beautiful, it’s fast, and it’s incredibly intuitive. Instead of a line graph or a table, you get a diagram of the actual paths people take as they browse your site. Follow your users every step of the way – from the homepage, through signup, and each page they hit as they use your product.

You can figure out which pages are working and which ones aren’t. Flow shows you exactly how many people leave from each page of your site. It takes less than a second for a user to show up in Flow. If you’re launching a brand-new site, it’s the fastest way to see what’s happening.

Requirements: -
Demo: https://flow.mixpanel.com/
License: License Free

Graphene is a realtime dashboard & graphing toolkit based on D3 and Backbone. It was made to offer a very aesthetic realtime dashboard that lives on top of Graphite (but could be tailored to any back end, eventually).

Combining D3’s immense capabilities of managing live data, and Backbone’s ease of development, Graphene provides a solution capable of displaying thousands upon thousands of datapoints in your dashboard, as well as presenting a very hackable project to build on and customize.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://jondot.github.com/graphene/
License: MIT License

Either you’re a web developer, blogger or anyone with a website, you probably use Google Analytics to collect and process crucial data about your site’s visitors. Now, we got GAget for you, it is a Google Analytics Widget for Mac OS X Dashboard.

You can see the important information of the day without any clutter. You can check out the number of your visits for the last two weeks. See the rate of new visitors and bouncers. You can either refresh data with one click or wait for the automatic refresh. And it’s easy to switch between profiles too.

Requirements: Mac OS X
Demo: http://www.zoltanhosszu.com/gaget/
License: License Free

Have you ever thought of combine your Twitter, Digg, Facebook and Delicious counters into one single counter? The Share Counter can be fully customized by CSS. It loads pretty fast with only 2kb. It’s easy to use, you simply add or rename the classes of the link to be shared and the element that will hold the counts.

You may use the Share Counter in non-commercial and commercial projects. It may also be included in other software, themes and templates intended for sale or distribution.

Requirements: Javascript enabled
Demo: http://dandypixels.com/sharecount/
License: License Free

For many webmasters, Google Analytics is an awesome way to collect information while experimenting and study what’s going on with your website or web application. Tweaking Google Analytics can give some terrific data that wouldn’t be available by using their default setup.

Alan Johnson has published an article: Advanced Google Analytics for Startups, which tells us how to use Custom Variables and Advanced Segments to get more useful information from Google Analytics.

Source: http://thinkvitamin.com/business/analytics/google-analytics…