I have one property and one view where i track traffic for multiple domains. For ex: example.com, one.example.com, two.example.com, example2.com
Now, I want to get organic traffic for one.example.com in the same view. I use like this, ACQUISITION --> Channels --> Default channel grouping as primary dimension & Page as secondary dimension. In the filter, i filtered Channels with Organic search and in Page i filter with containing match example2.com. Is this good to go or should i choose Landing page as secondary dimension instead of Page.
And in what context we have to use Page & Landing Page dimension?
Regards,
Magesh
If your pages in the path in the report are composed of a domain and a page path, it is a right way. Alternatively, you can filter by the 'host name'.
There is also a special report for landing pages, you can use that and as a secondary dimension the channel grouping (and filter for organic).
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In the past, with older Google Analytics accounts and properties I was able to use a Custom Report on a View to show a table of Full Referral URLs.
But with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) I can no longer have Views, so I'm at a loss how I can show Full Referral URLs? I can show the Referral Source (domain name only) but I'd prefer to see the full Referral Path.
Any ideas how I can go about this?
Thank you.
Closest I can find is to use the Explore tab to create a new Exploration with the following settings:
Variables
Dimensions: Page referrer
Metrics: Active users
Tab Settings
rows: Page referrer
show rows: 500 (optional)
values: Active users
cell type: Heat map (optional)
filters: (exclude any URL patterns here)
Then minimize the Variables and Settings panels.
This will give you a long table of full referrer URLs along with the number of users that came from there. In my case most are domain names, but a handful are full URLs pointing to a page.
It remains to be seen if this can be done more easily or more comprehensively.
Which is the better dimension to use when we're using UTM-tagged web links on social media posts -- landing page, destination page, or destination URL?
We launched and are promoting a new website on social media, using the URLs of the respective pages we're posting about. I want to create a dashboard on GA that captures pageviews and average time spent, but confused whether we should be using the landing page dimension, destination page, or destination URL. Things we've read online are not clearly applicable.
This should be a subset of the overall pageviews/sessions of the new site.
Thx.
You should use the landing page dimension. It is the page the user started the session on.
I would like to push
an individual page name for every page on my website (Home, Product Page Product A, Productpage Product B, Category Page Products A-C)
and a general category (Home, Category, Cart, Productpage)
into the DataLayer with pageName and pageCategory.
For now, we work with Typo3 and an extension from our tracking tool to name pages and categories individually.
We dislike this tracking tool and want to change to Google Analytics, so we would also get rid of the extension.
How is an individual page name and category usually set for every page? How to set and pull those two efficiently?
Each record is individually in TYPO3 as it is referenced with an uid.
Your pages have an uid and also your categories.
Also your pages can (should) be uniquely identified by the full path (URL). The same for categories: if you disentangle the tree you should get unique category-pathes.
So you can use the uids you can't see the hierarchy in any analytics tool (or at least you need to add the hierarchy information).
If you use the pathes it should be possible to split/group the accesses in the same way as the hierarchy is given in the pathes.
We have two platforms, a marketing site and a SaaS solution.
The marketingsite is on the main domain like www.domain.com and the SaaS solutions is on our subdomain sub.domain.com.
I would like to track the conversion rate of the customers signing up on our SaaS solution through our marketingsite.
If I go into goals for the marketingsite I can choose a relative path to the goal like www.domain.com/signup-completed, but the actual signup is on sub.domain.com/signup-completed. How can I track this on the marketing site?
The two sites are setup as different properties under the same account.
First of all, the property must be same for both subdomain and domain, i.e. same UA id.
Secondly, to track goals from sub domain, you need to include every part of the URL in the Page dimension. Normally you will not be able to distinguish which page is on which domain
For the above you need to create a filter that would modify the URL to include domain:
Steps:
In the View (Profile) Settings page, click the Add Filter link.
Choose Add New Filter and provide the filter a name.
Choose Custom Filter and select Advanced on the Filter type settings.
Under Advanced settings:
FieldA should be set to Hostname
FieldB should be set to Request URI
Set the values for both Field A and Field B to (.*), which is an
expression that captures all characters.
Set the Output To --> Constructor option to Request URI and provide
$A1$B1 as the value for that choice.
Your reports will now show:
www.domain.com/example.html
sub.domain.com/moreexample.html
This will capture the www.domain.com portion of your URL and include that at the beginning of your page URL in the content reports section.
You can then easily set the goals :)
PS: I would recommend to create new view, place this filter and then create goals, so that the data in other views wont be affected
I've a site which allows users to register, creating a store front page like a shopping cart for them to customize. Each page is a subdomain of the main page, and is coded using one jsp.
Eg: User creates store front page named "abc", his store front page will be abc.mydomain.com
Is there a way to track these different subdomains individually separately using google analytics programmitically?
I've googled and currently did it by creating views and filters, but as i researched there are no way to create these views and filters programmitically, having to go to the google analytics page to create at there. I saw there is also a limit of views one can create thus am wondering if there are any other solution to this.
Thank You
You can use the Management API to create, update, and delete profiles, but as you've found out there is a limit of 50 profiles (views) per non-premium account. I would say to use advanced segments to segment out hostnames, but again there is also a limit of 100 advanced segments per view. One idea (and I haven't tested this) could be that when a user creates an account, they create a sub subdomain abc.foo.mydomain.com, and after there have been 100 sub subdomains created, switch the subdomain to bar.mydomain.com, etc. This way, you could get 5000 possible combinations. Again, you would want to test.
One other option, and this is similar to what Shopify does, is to have the user input their own GA account through the admin - but the downfall of this is that you (the site designer) wouldn't have visibility into that subdomains data.
Anyway, hope this helps.