Feed Analytics Tracking

In case anyone is wondering, I’ve solved this. You can easily track your XML feed hits by doing the following:

• Use a google analytics php api such as https://github.com/ins0/google-measurement-php-client (This is what I’ve used in the example below)
• Use the plugin’s action hooks to fire off a tracking event

/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* Add some Analytics tracking to our podcast feed */
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
function track_podcast_xml(){

require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/src/Racecore/GATracking/GATracking.php');

$client_ip = $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP"] ? $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP"] : $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$options = array(
// use proxy
'proxy' => array(
'ip' => $client_ip
)
);

$gatracking = new \Racecore\GATracking\GATracking('UA-XXXXXXXX-X', $options);

$event = $gatracking->createTracking('Event');
$event->setAsNonInteractionHit(false);
$event->setEventCategory('XML');
$event->setEventAction('FeedHit');
$event->setEventLabel('feed/podcast');

$response = $gatracking->sendTracking($event);

}
add_action('ssp_before_feed', 'track_podcast_xml');

Side note: I’m using CloudFlare, so you’ll notice the $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP"] header check.

Cheers.