Website Analytics in my Pocket using Microsoft Fabric (AdaCon 2023)
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The document is about how the author created a mobile-friendly dashboard for her website analytics using Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. She collects data from the Cloudflare API and stores it in Microsoft Fabric. Then she visualizes the data in Power BI which can be viewed on her phone. This allows her to track website traffic and see which pages are most popular over time. She demonstrates her dashboard and discusses future improvements like comparing statistics across different time periods.
Website Analytics in my Pocket using Microsoft Fabric (AdaCon 2023)
- 1. © 2023 Cathrine Wilhelmsen (hi@cathrinew.net)
- 2. © 2023 Cathrine Wilhelmsen (hi@cathrinew.net) Website Analytics in My Pocket Using Microsoft Fabric Cathrine Wilhelmsen October 10th, 2023
- 3. © 2023 Cathrine Wilhelmsen (hi@cathrinew.net) Session Description As a technical blogger and event organizer, I'm always curious about my website traffic. How many visitors have I had? Where are they from? What days and times are my websites most popular? Which posts are read the most? All this information is available to me. There's only one gotcha: the data is only available for the past 30 days. That means if I want to compare how my website is doing next year compared to this year, I need to save the data somewhere else so it doesn't get lost - and build my own visualizations on top of it. Luckily for me, that's what I do for a living! In this session, I will show you how I've used Microsoft Fabric (the newest analytical service from Microsoft) to create my own pocket-sized dashboard for my website analytics. First, I will explain how I automatically collect the data from an API and store it in a central location. Then, I will show how I visualize the data in a mobile-friendly way using Power BI.
- 4. © 2023 Cathrine Wilhelmsen (hi@cathrinew.net) @cathrinew cathrinew.net
- 5. © 2023 Cathrine Wilhelmsen (hi@cathrinew.net) Data Factory Data Engineering Data Warehouse Data Science Real-Time Analytics Power BI Data Activator Unified Data Foundation with OneLake Data Governance with Microsoft Purview
- 6. © 2023 Cathrine Wilhelmsen (hi@cathrinew.net) What did I build? Cloudflare API Microsoft Fabric Daily Stats Hourly Stats Website Analytics
- 7. © 2023 Cathrine Wilhelmsen (hi@cathrinew.net) Why did I build it? Wanted to phase out Google Analytics Cloudflare offers free, privacy-first analytics Moved to Cloudflare in September 2023 Cloudflare only stores data for 30 days
- 8. © 2023 Cathrine Wilhelmsen (hi@cathrinew.net) Why did I build it this way? Real-world use case as a Microsoft MVP Wanted something pretty and pink Because it was fun
- 9. © 2023 Cathrine Wilhelmsen (hi@cathrinew.net) How did I get the data? Cloudflare GraphQL API One single endpoint for all API calls Pass the GraphQL queries as a JSON object
- 10. © 2023 Cathrine Wilhelmsen (hi@cathrinew.net) What did I do with the data? Ingested data using Microsoft Fabric pipelines Visualized the data using Power BI Used the native app on my phone to view stats
- 11. © 2023 Cathrine Wilhelmsen (hi@cathrinew.net) Let’s demo! 🤓
- 12. © 2023 Cathrine Wilhelmsen (hi@cathrinew.net) What do I want to improve? View country statistics Rank content by popularity Compare statistics across time periods
- 13. © 2023 Cathrine Wilhelmsen (hi@cathrinew.net) Thank you! 💜 hi@cathrinew.net @cathrinew cathrinew.net