FoxMetrics is a personalization platform that allows users to collect & analyze customer actions through computers, mobile, and web applications. The analytics.js FoxMetrics destination is open-source. You can browse the code on GitHub.

This document was last updated on October 15, 2018. If you notice any gaps, outdated information or simply want to leave some feedback to help us improve our documentation, please let us know!

Getting Started

The first step is to make sure FoxMetrics supports the source type and connection mode you’ve chosen to implement. You can learn more about what dictates the connection modes we support here.

1. From your Segment UI’s Destinations page click on “Add Destination”.
2. Search for “FoxMetrics” within the Destinations Catalog and confirm the Source you’d like to connect to.
3. Add your FoxMetrics App ID
4. When FoxMetrics in enabled in Segment, our CDN will update within 5-10 minutes, and FoxMetrics’s javascript will be loaded asynchronously onto your page. Please remember to remove FoxMetrics’s snippet from your page.

Page

If you haven’t had a chance to review our spec, please take a look to understand what the Page method does. An example call would look like:

analytics.page();

When you call page, we call FoxMetrics’ record with the exact same parameters.

Identify

If you haven’t had a chance to review our spec, please take a look to understand what the Identify method does. An example call would look like:

analytics.identify("97980cfea0067", {
  name: "Peter Gibbons",
  email: "peter@initech.com",
  plan: "premium",
  logins: 5
});

When you call identify on analytics.js, we call FoxMetrics’ _fxm.visitor.Profile to store all traits provided.

Track

If you haven’t had a chance to review our spec, please take a look to understand what the Track method does. An example call would look like:

analytics.track("Registered", {
  plan: "Pro Annual",
  accountType: "Facebook"
});

When you call track on analytics.js, we push your event and properties onto the _fxm object.

Settings

Segment lets you change these destination settings via your Segment dashboard without having to touch any code.

App ID

You can find your App ID (also listed as your API Key) in your FoxMetrics Applications List under My Account > Applications.