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API Analytics for Product Managers

By : Deepa Goyal
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API Analytics for Product Managers

By: Deepa Goyal

Overview of this book

APIs are crucial in the modern market as they allow faster innovation. But have you ever considered your APIs as products for revenue generation? API Analytics for Product Managers takes you through the benefits of efficient researching, strategizing, marketing, and continuously measuring the effectiveness of your APIs to help grow both B2B and B2C SaaS companies. Once you've been introduced to the concept of an API as a product, this fast-paced guide will show you how to establish metrics for activation, retention, engagement, and usage of your API products, as well as metrics to measure the reach and effectiveness of documentation—an often-overlooked aspect of development. Of course, it's not all about the product—as any good product manager knows; you need to understand your customers’ needs, expectations, and satisfaction too. Once you've gathered your data, you’ll need to be able to derive actionable insights from it. This is where the book covers the advanced concepts of leading and lagging metrics, removing bias from the metric-setting process, and bringing metrics together to establish long- and short-term goals. By the end of this book, you'll be perfectly placed to apply product management methodologies to the building and scaling of revenue-generating APIs.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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The API Analytics Cheat Sheet

Developer portal

An API developer portal is a website that provides developers with the information and resources they need to effectively use and integrate with a company’s API. It serves as a one-stop shop for developers to access documentation, tutorials, code samples, and other resources that help them to understand and use the API.

It is common to use a developer’s <domain name> as the URL for the developer portal. The following screenshot shows the developer portal for Google () where developers can explore all the developer tools offered by Google:

Figure 9.1 – Google developer portal landing page

Figure 9.1 – Google developer portal landing page

The Google developer portal also offers a developer expert directory that allows experts on Google developer tools to connect with organizations that need them:

Figure 9.2 – Google developer expert directory showcased on Google’s developer portal

Figure 9.2 – Google developer expert directory showcased on Google’s developer portal

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