I have 3 websites (or sometimes more) that I manage with Google Analytics, i.e. I have 3 "properties":
How can I generate a custom dashboard that displays pageviews graphs for each of the 3 sites on a single page?
Something like this:
When I tried to use the customisation feature, all I achieved to do is a custom dashboard but for a specific property:
How to do a custom dashboard that can display data from multiple properties / multiple websites? (to give the big picture of the traffic for multiple websites in a single shot)
As others have said, dashboards sit on the "view" level, along with custom reports. With that in mind, here are 2 ways I can imagine accomplishing the goal of "I want to see all my data from all the websites I'm tracking in one dashboard."
Use Data Studio. This kind of thing is pretty much exactly what it was designed for -- you can blend data from all your GA properties into a single data source and build reports off of it.
If you must have your dashboard inside Google Analytics, you could shift your account structure down one level. Instead of 1 account, 3 properties, you could create 1 account, 1 property, and send all the data to the same GA tracking code. Then, you use different views to segment your websites' data--and one of those views will include all the data from all the sites. The others will be filtered (probably by hostname, but you can do it a number of ways.)
For example, this property would have an "All data" view, a "Website A" view, "Website B" view, etc.
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We have a large site +200k pages which are divided in to two main categories which each include 100-300 sub-categories.
We need to report monthly for each sub-category with same base report. Only way to differentiate categories is to use Page Path.
There's many problems regarding content's of report. Name's should be related to category name, some panels should be name according to category name etc.
There's no way I'm going to create segments for each nor creating report for each segment.
Currently we've got another analytics solution that provides this feature but lacks a lot of other features included in Google Analytics.
We are using content grouping and DataStudio which allows users to just go and select their sub-category but this is facing some resistance. Why? Don't know, maybe they just want that monthly PDF report.
You can potentially set up a separate View (based on the page URL) for each sub-category. How many sub-category are we talking about?
What data visualization tool are you guys using? (Standard Google Dashboard? Data Studio? Tableau?) There are many ways to potentially automate these reports based on the same template. Please provide more context so we can help you better.
I have a multilanguage site and my plan is to track every language apart.
Example:
domain.com
domain.com/en/
domain.com/de/
domain.com/fr/
For now, I have one GA Property and one GTM Container for the whole site. I was thinking of creating multiple Properties in GA for every language and one for all together. So that would look like this:
domain.com -> GA-1
domain.com/en/ -> GA2
domain.com/de/ -> GA3
domain.com/fr/ -> GA4
Now in GTM I would add to the container one Tag for each Property and create a trigger for each property. GA-1 trigger fires on all pages, GA-2 trigger fires on some page views that page path contains /en/, GA-3 trigger fires on some page views that page path contains /de/...
Is this the best practice and would this work like this? or is there another method to achieve this goal? Or is it enough to create some Views in GA and create some filters for each language?
The goal is to track every language in a different property so the starting point is always the language. Maybe there are also different conversions in the properties.
In this situation, the best practice is to only have a single GA property that tracks the whole site. If you then want to only report on the data from a specific section of your site (i.e. a specific language) then you would use GA views (and filters) to achieve this. You would filter based on the Page dimension (e.g. Page starts with /fr).
There is no benefit to creating a property for each language except maybe to prevent you from going above the 10 million hits per property per month limit of the free version of GA. On the other hand, there is a benefit to tracking the entire site in a single property. The main benefit is that it allows you to perform cross-language analysis.
I would like to add another solution to your question, where you can actually get the result you're asking for (even though it's not best practice).
If you go to Variables > User-Defined Variables -> New
Let's give the variable a name like UA - Tracking ID
You can choose variable type RegEx Table
Set the Input Variable to {{Page Path}}
And set the rows you need to the following:
Pattern
^/en/.*
^/de/.*
^/fr/.*
Output
GA-2
GA-3
GA-4
Under Advanced Settings
Check Ignore Case, and uncheck Full Matches Only and Enable Capture Groups...
Now add this variable {{UA - Tracking ID}} in your Universal Analytics tag under Tracking ID.
This will work on the tracking for each language.
When that's done, I will just add an extra Universal Analytics under Tags that tracks all the pages with the tracking ID GA-1.
Now two tags will be fired on eg. domain.com/en/, one for the combined domain GA-1 and one for the separate domain, in this example GA-2.
I know that it might be odd, but I need your help with the google analytics set up.
Task: I need to set up brochure downloads as a goal for international students on a page https://www.cqu.edu.au/international-students/international-brochures .
In a perfect world, I would need to set up an individual goal for each type of brochure download (postgraduation, undergraduate, English courses) but I decided to start from "all brochures" to save the number of goals that I have for the view. Unfortunately, I don't have a chance to set up "events", so I have to work with goals only.
Final goal destination: Any page containing "pdf_file" in its description.
Pathway: come to International section, move to brochures, then go to brochure page (containing "pdf_file" in its description, for ex. - https://www.cqu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/158540/2017-Undergraduate-International-Guide.pdf).
The problem: I tried to use regular expressions such as "^/__data/assets/pdf_file/." or ^/pdf_file/(.) and I can't see conversions in real time test.
However, nothing helped, and goals (even the page visit) still aren't tracking correctly. What am I doing wrong? And, if possible, how can I split goals across different brochure types?
Many thanks,
Kirill
You are on the right track. You just need one Goal. The problem you have is that after clicking a pdf document you are being redirected to a PDF viewer iframe. This is a PDF view "page" with no Google analytics tracking code whatsoever.If you use are using destination goals the only way this will work is by having installed the Google Analytics (GA) tracking code at the "final destination page".
One way to track pdf "views" is by creating a short url for each one, hence you will be able to track or check how many of them have views.
Another way is to create an onclick event within each link. But this is only possible if you can setup the events in GA. Creating this kind of event tracking will allow you to set up labels for each pdf's name to be able to identify or track each one of them.
Situation: I have used Google Tag Manager to set up Google Analytics (GA - Universal) on a multisite network. There is one GTM container, and each website has its own GA property. I used a GTM variable to reference all of the GA properties. I am able to track cross-domain sessions. In testing, I am able to follow a user's session across multiple domains under the same session / client ID.
Problem: I'm stuck with what to do next. I'd like to create some Goals and Views that track a user's journey through my sites and measure the usual stats (bounce, drop-off points conversions, etc.). However, I'm not sure where to begin. I see plenty of information on the Internet for how to set up cross-domain GA tags in GTM. However, I don't see anything out there for how to create Views and Goals for cross-domain setups. A few questions that come to mind are:
Do I create Goals in the destination site's GA account (e.g. mycheckout.com), or the site where the session begins (e.g. myproductinfo.com)?
When creating Goals, do I only use the permalink slug, or the entire link? I thought I could only add the permalink.
How does this information roll up into one report?
I found this link, but I'm not sure if it's the 'best practice'. I would greatly appreciate it if someone who has previously implemented this could provide an outline of best practices, or a link to a good tutorial on the subject.
Thanks for your help!
Chris
You need to understand GA definition of Views and Properties. Views are like database table views: you can either show the whole table or a sample of it.
To have all data collected without sampling a "Raw Data" view (no filters) should always be used. Each view has its own conversion goal definitions. So in the "Raw Data" view you can create a goal for any page tracked. If you filter a view for one domain (e.g. "confirmation.com View with appropriate filters"), only goals for this domain should be created (otherwise they will never count a conversion).
When creating goals you can define filters for the "ga:pagePath" parameter. So it depends on your GA tracking setup, what part of the URL it tracks. Go into chrome web developer toolbar and hit the "network" tab. Open your page in this tab. Then search for requests ending with "collect", these are the data trackpoints send to GA. There you can debug what URL information is sent to GA (search for the "dl" parameter within the query string parameters list).
I've implemented GA on our b2b site. It's strictly internal but we'd like to track behaviors of users to see if some of the sections on the site are relevant. So, it's working, but say you have
www.blahblah.com and you want to also track
www.blahblah.com/edit
www.blahblah.com/askquestion
Do you set up a filter for this? I did try it and not sure if it's working quite yet. Any info/advice would be greatly appreciated. I am brand new to GA.
Thanks
Not quite sure what you are asking.
If you want to know about metrics for the individual pages you'd go to to the Aquisition->Page Content reports. Overview will give you, well, an overview (you can use the filter box to look at the metrics for any specific Url), Content Drilldown will display a view structured by url hierarchy.
If you're after user behaviour you can create segments. If you want to know if somebody vistited the homepage and, after that, the /edit page you'd got to advanced segments (the arrow above the "Explorer" Tab in most views, click "create new segment", choose "sequence" from the advanced tab, choose page as dimension and "/" to filter for as step one, "/edit" as filter value for page two, enter a name for the segment and click save. Now you'll get all reports only for visitors who have visited those two pages, starting with the homepage.
There are a number of predefined segments, you should try them to see what they can do. You need a pretty good understanding of metrics and dimensions in GA to get the full value from segments, but the simple stuff (e.g. analyze differences between marketing channels) is already pretty useful.
So, for page performance seek out reports with page metrics and use filters. To analyze user behavior use segments which apply to most of the GA reports.
Hope that helps, if not you might to explain more specifically what you want to see in your reports.
You can create separate custom report for individual sections and drilldown by almost all the GA provided dimensions. please reffer the sampel provided.
Please access this URL in your browser as this is a predefined custom report which does the same thing you want. This will get saved under custom reports. You need to edit the custom report and give your own path/section insted of "/services/" under filters section