I tried to automate test to validate GA events.
My approach is :-
List item use google analytics real time reporting api.
Before the test ends i will hit this api and collect the last 30 mins data
This data will be a huge chunk of formattedJson string
and in this string i will search my GA events which was supposed to push.
This approach seems to be in-efficient.
My issue is to find the analytics data which corresponds to test user.
Each user has unique user id, hence, i am trying for making the request such that api returns me the filtered data based on some custom dimension "custom:user_id='user_unique_id'" .
Is it possible to get all data having condition e.g 'custom:user_id="XYZ"'.
Please advise, how to get all ga events data for a specific event label / custom dimension ? Also, does it support dimensionFilterClauses like reporting api v4 ?
We can do it by filtering.
e.g rt:eventCategory==ProductPage
earlier i was using quote, rt:eventCategory=='ProductPage' which wasn't supported.
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Within the unpaid version of Google Analytics, you are limited to 20 custom dimensions per property/view. As a workaround, I am currently attempting to create a custom dimension table within the existing custom dimensions in Google Analytics. In essence, I am trying to use an index and value custom dimension as a custom dimension table within itself. The problem that I am trying to solve is with a 6sense GA integration, currently, 6sense takes up 17 out of the 20 available custom dimensions. I want to consolidate these 17 custom dimensions into a lookup table variable that is pulling from the 6sense companyData variable in the dataLayer: 6sense Lookup Table Variable
The problems that I am running into are this:
Once I have this configured how do I access each of these indexed values in GA?
As it is configured, would it still allow for granular Session data (Session, Bounce Rate, Goal Completions, etc.)?
Any ideas, help, suggestions are all appreciated. Thanks in advance!
The value of the custom dimension is a string, you cannot use it as a lookup. The way you are trying it won't work, because if for example the dimension is at the session or user level, the next value will replace the previous one within that session, therefore you would lose all the previous values and the last one sent to that index would 'win' and it will be the value of that custom dimension of the session.
An alternative solution could be to create a string with the information of interest concatenated and send it in a custom dimension (always considering that if this string changes, the one sent as last to Analytics in the session is saved, for session and user level hits).
I have been tasked with using Google Analytics to report of use of a desktop app so we can see which parts of the program are being used and how heavily, and potentially also see which companies are using which parts of the program (each company has a unique companyID). Ideally I'd like to be able to look at correlations (e.g., How many users who use report A also use process B?)
I currently have my program set to fire off a call to analytics. I've set it up to use the event tracking, but I'm open to app/screen tracking or something else if something would work better. I'm passing values like
v=1
&t=event // Event hit type
&tid=UA-XXXXX-Y // our ID; real code has valid value here
&cid=12345 // CustomerID
&ec=JobFinancialReport // Event Category
&ea=Run // Event Action
&el=Manager // Event label
&ev=7 // Event value
What I can't figure out is how in Google Analytics to set up reports that would show me something like:
CustomerID Category Label Total Hits Unique Users
12345 JobFinancialReport Manager 27 2
12345 MarketingReport1 Manager 6 4
I'm totally new to analytics so pardon my ignorance if I have some key misconception here. I've searched Googles sites and other questions here, but I may be wording my question incorrectly so I'm not finding something that's there. This is only one example; in some cases we might want to see how broadly each customer is using the program; in other cases we'd want to take the customerID out and just see how much a particular report is being used overall. Appreciate any guidance. Thanks.
The "cid" parameter is the client id, the value that is used to stitch single interactions into sessions and users.
The first problem that comes to mind with your setup is that the client id is not exposed in the user interface (with the single exception of the user explorer report) or the API.
You would need to implement this via a custom dimension (probably user scope, since it probably will never change for a given user) where you pass in the client id (you still need the cid parameter).
Then you could create a custom report (or create a report in Google Data Studio) with the custom value as primary dimension and your selected metric.
If you want to report "Unique Users" you would probably need to create a cid per logged-in user (if all users of the app have the same cid then you will always have but a single user reported). You should then probably create a second custom dimension for the company id, so you can segment your reports by company.
you can use custom reports in google analytics to get your desired output. here is how to create custom reports https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1151300?hl=en
I have a webapp that hosts several thousand subdomain sites under a single Google Analytics property. I'm in the process of upgrading my tracking tags from the old ga.js system to the new analytics.js-based system (Universal Analytics).
In my old setup, when the tracking code got instantiated, I would send a site id to GA as a custom variable. Then, when pulling analytics for my users, I would simply filter on site ID as follows:
https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ga?
ids=ga:76149262&
start-date=2015-01-18&
end-date=2015-01-20&
metrics=ga:visits,ga:pageviews,ga:uniquePageviews,ga:pageviewsPerVisit,ga:bounces&dimensions=ga:date&
filters=ga:customVarValue1==f6853365a940330037c3aceff36de412&
max-results=100
In the new Universal Analytics system, there are no custom variables, as these have been replaced by dimensions. No problem. I've created a new dimension called siteHash and I've been submitting it along with each page request. What's more, I'm able to query this with only one tiny modification to my API request above:
https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ga?
ids=ga:76149262&
start-date=2015-01-18&
end-date=2015-01-20&
metrics=ga:visits,ga:pageviews,ga:uniquePageviews,ga:pageviewsPerVisit,ga:bounces&dimensions=ga:date&
filters=ga:dimension1==f6853365a940330037c3aceff36de412&
max-results=100
As you can see, I've just changed ga:customVarValue1 to ga:dimension1, and everything works.
Here's the issue: Once I push this code change to production, a lot of my sites will start to have a mixture of old data and new data. The old data will be tagged with the custom variable and the new data will be tagged with the new dimension. How can I query on both ga:dimension1 and ga:customVarValue1 at the same time within the same query?
I've tried creating an "OR" query as described here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v3/reference#OR
This yields a filter parameter that looks like this:
ga:dimension1==f6853365a940330037c3aceff36de412,ga:customVarValue1==f6853365a940330037c3aceff36de412
Unfortunately, doing an API request with this filter yields no data. Does anyone know why? Is there a prohibition on filtering on dimensions and custom variables at the same time?
Assuming this is, for some reason, impossible. Is there any way to convert already collected custom variable data into dimension data? If I were able to do this, I could just query the API and only filter on dimensions since all of the old custom variable data would now be dimension data.
Looking at the API documentation linked below makes me confused. The parameter name "ids" suggest due to its plural form of "id" that I should be able to fetch data from multiple tables in one request, right?
However, this (vaguely) suggest the opposite:
The unique table ID used to retrieve the Analytics Report data. This ID is provided by the element for each entry in the account feed. This value is composed of the ga: namespace and the view (profile) ID of the web property.
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/v2/gdataReferenceDataFeed#ids
What I want to do is fetch visitor data from more than one table in one request and get them summed up and ready to use.
Is this possible?
Thanks!
This is not possible. You will need to make 2 separate requests for each table ID.
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.