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Google Analytics API PHP Class - Get most popular pages

Posted May 30th, 2009 in PHP

The following shows example usage to get the most popular pages from Google Analytics using my PHP class for the GA API.

Calling the ->data() method without supplying the to and from dates will get data for the last month. $id is the profile id which is in the format ga:12345

$api->login($login, $password);
$data = $api->data($id, 'ga:pagePath', 'ga:pageviews,ga:uniquePageviews');
print_r($data);

Some example output for the above is as follows:

Array
(
    [/jquery-get-set-form-values/] => Array
        (
            [ga:pageviews] => 4451
            [ga:uniquePageviews] => 4130
        )

    [/google-analytics-api-and-php/] => Array
        (
            [ga:pageviews] => 3733
            [ga:uniquePageviews] => 2210
        )

    [/article/apache/restart-apache/] => Array
        (
            [ga:pageviews] => 3248
            [ga:uniquePageviews] => 3098
        )

    [/article/mysql/delete-all-data-mysql/] => Array
        (
            [ga:pageviews] => 2954
            [ga:uniquePageviews] => 2815
        )

    [/php-http-referer-variable/] => Array
        (
            [ga:pageviews] => 2822
            [ga:uniquePageviews] => 2660
        )

    [/check-uncheck-checkbox-jquery/] => Array
        (
            [ga:pageviews] => 2664
            [ga:uniquePageviews] => 2392
        )

    [/article/mysql/cross-table-update/] => Array
        (
            [ga:pageviews] => 2410
            [ga:uniquePageviews] => 2247
        )

    [/article/networking/open-firewall-msn-icq/] => Array
        (
            [ga:pageviews] => 2090
            [ga:uniquePageviews] => 1975
        )

    [/article/linux-unix-bsd/howto-check-md5-file/] => Array
        (
            [ga:pageviews] => 2064
            [ga:uniquePageviews] => 1994
        )

    [/mysql-find-records-in-one-table-not-in-another-revised/] => Array
        (
            [ga:pageviews] => 2023
            [ga:uniquePageviews] => 1927
        )

)

You could instead loop through the data like so:

$api->login($login, $password);
$data = $api->data($id, 'ga:pagePath', 'ga:pageviews,ga:uniquePageviews');
foreach($data as $dimension => $metrics) {
	echo "$dimension pageviews: {$metrics['ga:pageviews']} unique pageviews: {$metrics['ga:uniquePageviews']}\n";
}

Using the same example data, this would output:

/jquery-get-set-form-values/ pageviews: 4451 unique pageviews: 4130
/google-analytics-api-and-php/ pageviews: 3733 unique pageviews: 2210
/article/apache/restart-apache/ pageviews: 3248 unique pageviews: 3098
/article/mysql/delete-all-data-mysql/ pageviews: 2954 unique pageviews: 2815
/php-http-referer-variable/ pageviews: 2822 unique pageviews: 2660
/check-uncheck-checkbox-jquery/ pageviews: 2664 unique pageviews: 2392
/article/mysql/cross-table-update/ pageviews: 2410 unique pageviews: 2247
/article/networking/open-firewall-msn-icq/ pageviews: 2090 unique pageviews: 1975
/article/linux-unix-bsd/howto-check-md5-file/ pageviews: 2064 unique pageviews: 1994
/mysql-find-records-in-one-table-not-in-another-revised/ pageviews: 2023 unique pageviews: 1927

For more examples and to download my class refer to The Google Analytics API and PHP: A series

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