Alright, so I would like to analyze a few things about how my users are using their dashboard. Thing is, I can't just track "http://website.com/dashboard". The software has this sort of account ID on the URL. The current structure goes as this:
https://website.com/admin/account/{account id}/dashboard
Is there a way I can track this URL, by telling Google Analytics that I need the specific URL with these specific things, except between account and dashboard can be anything? Can I add some kind of placeholder or something?
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I have Google analytics set up for about 20 different accounts/websites. There is an email that I get from one of the sites that I can not find a setting for. It is an autogenerated email that comes from analytics-noreply#google.com
It looks like this:
I can not find the place where I can enable this. I have looked under the account/property/and view settings. I am using the new universal analytics for every account.
I like this email and would like to get it for all my accounts and maybe even change the time period (if that's possible).
I tried googling[sic] the subject line but all I get are links to the Google+ page for google analytics, but no actual information.
QUESTION: Does anyone know where the settings are for getting this email? Or is there a minimum visits number that has to be hit for this email to be generated?
We've had this email come through for a few of our clients, too. I am thinking it's has to do with the Data Sharing Setting (Account > Account Settings) for Account Specialists. I believe it defaults to the default profile (view) that you initially setup for your account.
Just my two-cents though...
I am integrating Google Analytics in my tumblr-Template. The Problem is, every time I visit the blog to see how it looks like, Google will count me as a visitor. I would like to avoid it.
So I need something Like this in my template:
{block:NotAdmin}
<#Google-Script>
{/block:NotAdmin}
I couldn't find anything useful on the tumblr-Site.
Any suggestions?
ps. I am visiting the blog from different IP´s, so Google-IP-Filter wont work.
Some possible ways to detect if a user is signed in: How to detect if a tumblr user is logged in?
Assuming you can get some form of the above code working, you can add a conditional to the _trackPageview call:
if (!logged_in)_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
This way, all the analytics code is still being loaded, but the pageviews are not being tracked when you're logged in.
Perhaps try Google's opt-out extension? A good thing to do would be to set up a new user within Google Chrome, and switch to this user whenever you want to view the blog.
I'm building out a site that has predefined affiliate ids that are driving traffic to our sites. We currently use this paramater to track our seo work internally. Now we want to do the same through Google's Campaign Tracking at the Session level. The problem is we don't want to change our url, is it possible to manually build the Google campaign tracking pixel url? I'd like to take our affiliate ids and convert them over to a tracking campaign pixel for Google.
Seems like Google built this so all the tracking data must be in the url, is there a way to do the same tracking w/o the google data in the url?
Instead of:
http://www.mypage.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cost-per-click
I want to use(javascript will do the rest):
http://www.mypage.com/?affid=123456
Turns out here is exactly what I was looking for:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/methods/gaJSApiCampaignTracking
This is essentially doing everything the Google Campaign Tracking does but you have full control over what parameters are passed in the tracking pixel. I don't have to change or mess with the url, our in house tracking will work as it should, and now the google tracking pixel will be built as I specified.
You can programmatically set up a virtual pageview based on the affiliate id.
In an if statement, determine if you have an affiliate id. If you do, write some logic to build out the proper campaign, medium and source, then concatenate it to your URL. Pass that to GA via the trackPageview method instead of letting it do it's own thing.
Keep in mind that passing a virtual URL does replace it's default behavior, so you won't have the affid parameter in your content reports unless you build it in to the virtual pageview.
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
I have a site that contains the file
redirect.php?id=123
It redirects folks to another site using an id it pulls from the database.
I'd like to track the page on Google Analytics, see where users are coming from, and what popular sites they're going to.. etc.
I currently set up the page so that it pulls (with PHP) the link from the database, and outputs the ga.js stuff and a javascript redirect.
The issue is that I'm getting the data on my analytics dashboard as if every id is a different page..
What is a better way to do this?
If you want to check for pages of the type redirect.php?id=x then the page Carlos links to is how you would do it.
You would want to exclude the id parameter from your search. Then Analytics would combine all the redirect.php?id=1 redirect.php?id=2 redirect.php?id=3 pages as just a single page named redirect.php
How do I exclude query parameters from my reports?