I know eventLabel beforehand and I want to query the API such that I get the corresponding source.
I've tried https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/request-composer/ but there was no option for explicitly providing eventLabel value.
Google made some changes to the Request Composer and now you need to select the request type first. If you select Pivot Request (the second tab) you'll have the option to pick ga:eventLabel, ga:source as dimensions.
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I want to query the google analytics realtime api using one of my custom dimensions.
In the regular api (not realtime) I can do this as follows:
'metrics': 'ga:pageviews',
'filters': 'ga:pagePath=~/myPath*;ga:dimension2=='+myVal
However, when I change the metrics to 'rt:activeUsers', I got the error:
"Unknown dimension(s): ga:dimension2"
when I did the request.
I changed the separator in the filters string from semi-colon to & and I didn't get the error any more, but the result always returns 0
Is it possible to do filtering on the realtime api? TIA
The realtime API does not support custom dimensions (you can see the list of supported dimensions and metrics here). On possible reason is that at least the values for session- and user-scope dimensions cannot be determined in realtime since realtime reports based on hits. So you cannot filter based on a custom dimension.
There is a possible workaround, but that comes with a caveat that makes it mostly pointless. You can create an additional data view, and then use an advanced filter to copy the custom dimension value for the hit to a dimension supported by the realtime API - e.g. you extract the value from your custom dimension and copy it to the "source" field (or some other field). Then you query for/ filte by the source field to retrieve the value. The caveat is that the original value of the source data field (or whatever field you overwrote) will be lost.
Can I use client ID as a dimension in my reports? Client ID does not appear as a dimension in the Dimensions and Metrics Explorer, but I believe I can create a custom dimension that will store the Client ID. My end goal is to have a row per customer/date+time containing the incidents associated with the particular customer at the particular time, e.g. page visits, particular events etc
Once you've created the custom dimension in GA, you can start tracking it via analytics.js with the following code:
ga(function(tracker) {
// Assumes dimension is at index 1.
tracker.set('dimension1', tracker.get('clientId'));
});
I found that the google analytics will NOT save your custom dimension if it matches the value of "client id" (even if that id isn't actually PII). However, if you alter the "client id" to become a different value, it will save properly.
Here are the guidelines about what you are allowed to send
I'm looking for some general advice. The site I'm currently working on is full of duplicate content that's about to be deduplicated. But it was built that way to track different audiences visiting the pages by reporting on the URL hits.
Current Links
www.MySite.com/homeowner/painting
www.MySite.com/professional/painting
www.MySite.com/designer/painting
My concern is that at the end of the day, the person managing the analytics wants to be able to look at their report and say "We had X number of professionals visit the site." Simply deduping will elimate that.
I'm thinking Google Analytics might have a way to pass audience/tags in via the URL like this:
Example Links with Tracking
www.MySite.com/painting?tag=homeowner
www.MySite.com/painting?tag=professional
www.MySite.com/painting?tag=designer
Is this possible with Google Analytics? Does anyone have an example website using this?
I've looked into Custom Dimensions and Metrics but they seem to be overkill https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/custom-dims-mets
Custom Dimensions are not overkill, it's a reasonable idea for you to use them (because segmentation is what they are for, really).
Using a url tag has a couple of disadvantages. For one The tagged pages will appear as three distinct rows in your reports - you will be unable to get an aggregated number for www.MySite.com/painting, instead you will have three Urls (or as many as you have parameters).
Secondly, homeowner etc. are attributes that belong to a session, or even a user (if the role cannot change from visit to visit). However if you track them via url parameters they have only a hit level scope, i.e. they are recorded as a property of the viewed page, not the viewing visitor. If you record this as a session scoped variabe you need to set it only at the first pageview, and the value will be applied to all subsequent pageviews for that session.
So an easy way (example assumes you are using php) might be to use
if(isset($_GET['tag']) {
ga('send', 'pageview', {
'dimension1': "<?php echo filter_input(INPUT_GET, 'tag', FILTER_SANITIZE_ENCODED); ?>"
});
} else {
ga('send', 'pageview');
}
in your tracking code after you have created a session scoped custom dimension in your property settings ("dimension1" referring to the first custom dimension in your account, the numeric index changes for each dimension. The dimension name is only used in the reports, not the tracking code). You need to be careful not to send an empty value when the query string is not present - a session scoped custom dimension only records the last value from a session, if you send empty values you overwrite the value you recorded at the first pageview.
Alternatively you can do this without changing the tracking code at all - create a custom advanced filter to capture the value from the query string, a second to copy the value to your custom dimension and a third to remove the query string from the url. However while that's a neat trick using code is much easier.
From what I understand, the data passed in POSTs from a form on a site is not tracked by Google Analytics. What about any variables that get passed in the URL, as in ?value=bla
Does value=bla get stored by GA?
If so, is there a way to not track variable info from the URL?
I am aware of the anonymizeIp for IPs.
GA profile settings have a text field where you can enter query parameters that should be ignored. You can also set up an advanced filter to summarily excludes all query parameters (simply google "exclude query parameters google analytics", there a lot of tutorials on how th do this).
Can i retrieve entries changed/created after a specified date? This is regardless of the event date - only by "modified date". I.e. if i modify an old even i want to be able to retrieve it using a query (without knowing its id)
I haven't tried it myself but according to the documentation you should be able to access all events updated within a certain range using the standard Data API query parameters updated-min and updated-max.
See: http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/data/2.0/reference.html#Parameters
and: http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/2.0/reference.html#QueryRequests
I'm not sure if you are using a code library to access the Google Calendar API so I cannot comment further.