When I go to Reports > Engagement > Events, all the event names are shown.
I've setup custom click events which also send an event label and event category. However, these properties don't seem to be accessible.
How do I access event labels and categories in Google Analytics?
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On my blog, I have a related content section and I want to track which images get the most clicks.
I'm using Google Tag Manager which already triggers an event in Google Analytics when a post in the related content is visible and then clicked, but I can't manage to pass through the image ID to Google Analytics as a Custom Dimension for reporting.
How do I add this value as it's own data layer variable?
I've tried adding a custom event but this creates a new event, but I want to add the ID to the click event or the element visibility event.
I have a requirement where I need to display the Event Label, Event Category across the label and Total Events for the same in one dashboard Widget.
For eg:
How can I achieve this in Google Analytics.
Hi Aditya,
This table can't be achieved in a dashboard but can be setup in a custom report.
I am very new to gtm and trying to set up a tag that can record clicks of the sort by categories of all product pages.
Each category page has the sort by (like any other website), it for example has the options:
Price high to low
Price low to high
Date added
Name a-z
Name z-a
What I am trying to do is to be able track how many people click on those individual sort by categories? I am not sure how to go about this, need guidance.
Thanks!
You need to identify the click as it happens and then send the information to GA. So you need this two blocks in GTM: an universal analytics tag as "event" and a trigger which listens for clicks.
If you don't know CSS selectors the most easy way to find the right values for the trigger is by try and error. Activate the GTM debug mode and navigate to your list.
Now click on the sorting feature, does a click appears in the GTM debug console (the one you see in the lower part of your page)? If no click appears you need to activate at least one trigger which simply listens for any clicks that happen on your page. Now when you see clicks in your GTM debug console: select the click (in "summary" tab of gtm debug console) which appeared when you sorted. Now when the click is selected in summary the "variables" tab will show you all values within your defined variables.
All click variables should be activated in GTM. Then you can see what information is hold in them, when the user sorts.
As you now know the values of your variables when the sort action appears, you should use this information to create a trigger (something like: click element contains "xyz") and an universal analytics event which will send event category, action and label (one of these should contain information on click element) to Google Analytics as soon as your trigger is activated.
When I us Google Tag Manager for tracking a Link-Click, it shows up as an Event in Google Analytics. So far so good.
Let's say in GTM: Category is {{Event}} / Action is {{Click Event}} and Label is {{Page Path}}
Now I will have this Event as Analytics Goal (Conversion) - not AdWords. So Am I right, I have to set up in Analytics the Goal again but can't us the variables from GTM?
So the Category must be like "Test" Action "Click" Label "Link Click" or can I say, track my GTM Event in Analytics as Goal like linking them thogheter?
In GTM you can't set up an Analytics Goal right? You have to do the Event and then go to Analytics and make it as a Goal, true?
if you are using GTM to tracking event. it is not necessary to give {{Event}} or any predefined Macro(variables) as Event Category , Event Action or Event Label.
It is entirely upto you . You can give any string/ name the create goal in google analytics..
Link if you are click on any download link
Event Category will be 'Download Link',
Event Action you can choose as {{Click text}} or {{Click URL}}
and Event Label as {{{Page Path}}
after that at the time of goal creation you can use 'Download Link' as Goal Category and leave action and label. it will help you to tracks all download link as well as link url and on which page this event occcurs.. so on
There is a slight disagreement here at our work place. Our Metrics team has us putting the URL into Google Analytics Event Category, Actions or Labels. As far as I can tell, it's redundant because then url appears as dl in the Query String Parameters when I view the click event in Devtool's Network panel.
Is there any value or reason to add the page URL to Event Category, Label or Action?