I know you can't use the GA User ID as a Dimension, but I'm wondering if there's a report to find out which users viewed a specific page in GA. In other words, given a specific page path, which users viewed that page within a specific time range?
You can find navigation of each Analytics user in the User Explorer report.
However, you can't get what you say unless you pass the clientId (GA User ID) in a custom dimension with user scope.
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A bit of background:
I have a very simple Squarespace website, where I've created a manual form set up that takes in a user's email and a password for them to "login". They can only view the website once they're logged in. I didn't use Squarespace's features (like Member Areas) because they contain far too many undesirable features that are unable to be turned off (for example, I can't turn off automatic emails sent to users, I can't stop Squarespace from asking for first and last name, etc).
Now, I've been trying to figure out how to use Google Analytics' User ID feature (Universal Analytics, not GA 4 because GA 4 doesn't have great documentation yet and its features are still quite limited) in Squarespace so I can track the pages individual users view, but it's been giving me an insane amount of problems that aren't super well documented (from what I've seen at least). The biggest problem that I've been running into is that since my user ID is derived from the user's email (along with additional randomized numbers), I can get individual user info at the login page from the form submission, but I don't know how to keep this user info such that after the user is logged in and viewing various pages, I can still keep track of the user ID and enter it as a parameter in the GA configuration code for each page. I haven't seen evidence of a global variable system in Squarespace where I can store this user ID, so I'm pretty stumped (though I would be happy to know if someone knows of something similar).
Does anyone have any idea how I can individually track user activity on Squarespace without using Member Areas?
If you use the User-ID view you must send the user id in all hits, otherwise you will not see interactions in that view where that information is not present.
As an alternative (recommended) you can use a custom dimension at the user level, in that way you just need to send the userId even once, collect it in the custom dimension and from that moment on (including previous interactions of that same session) navigation of that user (also for subsequent sessions) will be associated with that identifier in Analytics.
I need to Track single user behavior on my website, such as if the user Click on a button, his location, time spending in the product page ..., i use google analytics to track the Traffic but the problem is that i cant get every user and his behavior, it gives me just the total page view, total sessions...etc
Is there is another option or tools to do that ?
We would like to track each individual user (logged in user) activity in the site.
Here is the list of activities :
1) Page View
2) Button click
3) Search keywords
etc.
Is there any way we can achieve this by Flurry or Google analytic or any other analytic.
With Universal Analytics, you can enable the new User ID feature which tracks logged in users as a custom dimension. You can view various reports against that custom dimension. There's more info here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3123663.
I would like to separate out the traffic between logged in users and users who have not logged into our site. The Sensr.net login link in the top right of the page turns into the user name when they are logged in. Is there a way to use this DOM state to segment the GA stats?
We have integer user ids from our database, should we use custom variables and put the Sensr.net UID into one of the custom variables?
Advance segments and Event Tracking is not wrong, you can use them creatively. But custom variables are there to track situations like this.
There are three main options such as Visitor Level, Session Level and Page Level. Visitor Level is recommended for this situation.
I will submit some referrals which will be very useful.
1) http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2012/08/28/20-ways-use-custom-variables/
2) http://online-behavior.com/analytics/custom-variables-segmentation
Couldn't you create a new advanced segment where one of the conditions (or the only one for that matter) is that they should've visited a certain url, i.e. login confirmed? Or when it's ajax based you could try creating an event for that action and create a segment for that specific event.
I would like to track where users originally came from when they make a purchase on my site so I know which keywords are more profitable and which websites are best for advertising.
an example is a user is on my site with my google analytics tracking code which has details of where they came from, and then decides to upgrade. they leave my domain to go to my biller (2checkout) complete the purchase and return to my thank you page.
I have transaction code and analytics code on my thank you page and the transactions are showing up with the correct product/amounts in GA however there is no other data and in my reports the referring url is always my biller or a credit card companies authorisation page.
i can manually connect which customer is which by saving their referring data when they first come to the site and then matching it up after they make a sale, but I would like it to show up in my google adwords / analytics account where it is easier to manipulate the data and see trends.
if anyone can help me with this annoying issue I would be vbery greatful, but I fear I may end up living off reports I create and then matching them up with adwords manually :/
One thing you can do is have a click event trigger a custom variable. When the user clicks on whatever link that takes them to your biller, have the custom variable trigger with the information you want to carry over (like the current page URL, some campaign name, whatever). Specify the custom variable's scope as Session or Visit so that it get associated with the thank you page.
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTrackingCustomVariables.html
An alternative is to do campaign tracking:
http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55540
That is more or less the same principle as the first suggestion, but with using specified URL parameters. Depending on how your pages are actually coded, you may need to push a virtual page view with the campaign code(s):
http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55521