How long does it take to set up Amplitude Analytics for a website? Front-end and back-end?

Hi @AA2000 

Like all the rest of the questions out there, “it depends”.

• Are you starting your instrumentation from scratch or you already have another source of truth for your event data?
  • This will determine if you will be using Amplitude SDKs/APIs vs direct import of existing data from a warehouse/ other means.
  • Since you mentioned your app is an online shop, you would need the Browser SDK to instrument front-end interactions and page views. This definitely would require someone with JS knowledge.
  • For backend server events, node JS or python SDKs would work depending on your backend setup.
• If you are starting from scratch, there are a whole bunch of prereq steps you would need to take before starting out. Some of them include :
  • Understanding types of questions and metrics you need from Amplitude and the events needed to answer those.
  • Setting up event taxonomy and basic data governance guardrails. 
    
    
    
     

Hi @AA2000 
If you are looking to migrate from GA, I would recommend reading the following

https://www.docs.developers.amplitude.com/data/tutorials/migrating-from-google-analytics/

https://amplitude.com/blog/amp-ga-questions

I don’t think they have Azure supported ingestion yet, but you can try exporting these logs to either S3 or write a custom ingestion pipeline via Batch Upload API.

It would be subjective depending on the stakeholders involved and the complexity of your app.