My question is same as the link :
How to use Google Analytics to track views of static HTML pages on file server?
It requires me to input the website with the http and https, but my static file is using local path,
how can I input the website URL?
Also, I cant find the tracking info under the property, so please help and thanks for answering the questions!
This URL is required but it is not decisive for the functioning and data collection in Google Analytics, so you can enter whatever you want to proceed with the setup.
You can find measurement ID by selecting the stream in Data stream.
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I have hunted around a bit and only found how to setup the site search parameter in a site's admin section. This is not what I want. Also looked through some Google Search Console videos - no go.
Given a URL, https://somesite.com/redirect/?redirect=https://gofundme.com/somecampaign/.
As some background, what I have setup here is a simple page that says "Loading..." and is used for external links I want to track analytics on, from platforms that I may not have access to the link's analytics. For example: https://gofundme.com/somecampaign.
Rather than having a redirect setup on the page itself, I injected custom JavaScript through Google Tag Manager that records analytics data in Google Universal Analytics (anyone want to recommend how to do this in G4A?) then performs the redirect.
My question is, in Google Analytics, how do I setup a custom report where the query string parameter = redirect and/or the specific page URL?
Thanks.
I was looking at the network request/response made by photos.google.com. When I clicked on an album, as expected, the server just returned a list of photo IDs in the album and the cdn url to download the photos. Then my browser made another request(s) to Google CDN using the urls returned earlier and downloaded the photos.
The CDN url looked something like (intentionally modified to post here):
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rpFgzMwheqshfkwelrklsjfkwejjlfjlsjfjsfjweojjsf
When I pasted the url in browser, it was able to download the photo even when I was not signed in.
So how does Google does access control at the CDN level? Does that mean I can access any photo of anyone if I know the random key at the end (I understand it's impossible to guess because it's a really really long random string)? How does Google generate this really long random url for each resource and maintain the mapping?
Assuming you're asking about user profile pictures, yes they can access them. Google has an official API for this.
I am sending an marketing Email attaching an image or PDF URL.
Is there is any way to track how may users viewed/clicked this page via google analytics ? I could see the number of page view who accessed html pages but seeking for a way to find how many of them accessed image or PDF URL?
Including a link directly to a pdf or image will simply open the resource without JavaScript tracking or cookies required for Google Analytics.
You would need to send a GA hit from your server in response to the request for those files - neither trivial nor recommended in this case
Rather send the link to a page on your site containing the content.
Tracking that in GA is trivial and is likely already set up on your site.
If you need to have the content in a PDF rather than on the web page directly, have a link to the PDF and track that as an event or Virtual Page View
I would also recommend tagging the link in your email with GA UTM Campaign Parameters to identify the traffic from that link
If your question is about tracking the email itself, please restate the question.
all I am trying to create Google Analytic clone. I know how to get information about the browser location IP and other similar things in PHP
What I want to know is how to create a java-script which sends this information from any website where my code is placed on my server ???
What is the minimum security requirement to create a tracking JavaScript code like google analytics?
redirect users to different pages based on session data in PHP?
Or in other words, do I have to send an ajax request to my server?
Is there any available solution already available subject to java-script?
Most analytics tools generate a url with query string parameters attached to it and then output a 1x1 image pixel, with the img src as the url. Your server would then receive and store the data. The only thing returned is the actual 1x1 pixel. This is the common method because in the event a site does not have js enabled, you wrap a hardcoded img to your server in noscript tags and still get basic info like page view.
But is there a reason why you are wanting to build your own analytics script instead of use an existing one? There are a number of 3rd party ones available, including free ones. Alternatively there is Piwik, which is a free and open source solution if you want to build off it and not have to start from scratch.
I am trying to make the google analytic __utm.gif request using php. I have broken all the variables and the only one which I don't know about is utmu parameter. It is not documented anywhere.
When I see a pageview tracking request it is appended to the end of request as &utmu=qB~
While doing ecommerce tracking it is appended as &utmu=qBAL~
Please help me with this.
It is a bitmap of all of the methods used to build the request.
Source: http://glucik.blogspot.com/2011/02/utmu-google-analytics-request-parameter.html
utmu doesn't actually contain anything of external meaning. Google uses it to store some internal values that help them improve ga.js. It's not required to make any functionality work, so, your PHP code doesn't need to account for it.
However, you should know there are already a few long-standing PHP-based Google Analytics projects, like Server Side Google Analytics (SSGA), as well as the semi-official Google Analytics for Mobile PHP and PHPGA.