I have a page that requires tracking in Google Analytics. The page has multiple questions on it and has a button that you can click to go the next page. Each question is multiple choice and I am trying to track drop-off points. So essentially, I track a "code" per session, on every click.
So if the user answers question 1, I track:
Page1-Question1
If they answer question 2, I track:
Page2-Question2
If they answer question 3, I track:
Page2-Question3
And so on. The problem is, I need to track "drop off" points. In other words, if the user answers question 2, I need to "forget" that they pressed question 1, so there is only ONE entry stored for question 2 for that user.
Alternatively, I need a view in analytics that allows me to see only the LATEST tracked click of the user.
Unfortunately, my Google Analytics skills are limited and I can't seem to find a way to do either of these. I managed to do part that fires the tracking per question and essentially I track it as follows:
gaTrack('/quiz-1','quiz1--' + 'page:' + pg_num + '-question:'+question);
The problem is that this could be called:
gaTrack('/quiz-1','quiz1--' + 'page:' + 1 + '-question:'+1);
Then
gaTrack('/quiz-1','quiz1--' + 'page:' + 1 + '-question:'+2);
Then
gaTrack('/quiz-1','quiz1--' + 'page:' + 1 + '-question:'+3);
And then I just have the list of questions the user clicked on, rather than the LAST list the user clicked on.
Any ideas?
Just track the pages as they are. Use the correct tracking method in JavaScript.
You probably mean this function:
ga('send', 'pageview', [page], [fieldsObject]);
See: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/pages
Now as the pages are tracked use the metric: exits. (ga:exits https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/dimsmets)
Every exit is the last page a user visited in his session. There are your drop off points. No further implementation needed.
Related
To help analyzing a site's user flow, I wrote a test bed in JavaScript, creating a new fake tracker, sending a few fake pageviews in like 1-2 second intervals according to a pretty extensive, randomized graph of expected views. I then set up goals in GA, containing funnels through certain pages. Then I left it running for a few hours, accumulating a few hundreds fake users.
Raw goal conversion percentages look good, page content flows too, BUT... when I'm looking at Goal Flow, some of the connections in the funnels don't make sense. For example 80% of my fake users seem to go from step "about" directly to step "success", skipping "product" and "payment", while - according to my test setup - that can't ever happen. (Step names used are examples to match the code below.)
I'd like to see exactly what paths did these particular users take - did some pages just not register, or did they register out of order, or what? Is there any way I can view RAW user journeys in GA, page by page?
For those interested, the testing code is basically like this:
ga("create","UA-0000000-2", "auto", "testtracker", {
'cookieName':"_ga_test_"+Date.now(),
'cookieExpires':120,
'clientId': 'cid-'+Date.now(),
});
var spd=1500;
var delay=0;
function pageview(page) {
setTimeout(function() {
ga("testtracker.send","pageview",page);
console.log("Sending: "+page);
},delay+=spd);
}
pageview("start");
if (Math.random()<.60) pageview("about");
if (Math.random()<.30) {
pageview("product");
if (Math.random()<.20) {
pageview("payment");
if (Math.random()<.70) {
pageview("success");
}
}
}
Apparently, I still have a lot to learn about GA.
The solution is to use Audience -> User Explorer and defining a very specific Section based on the suspicious sequence of pages does show individual users matching that pattern. And indeed somehow GA logged a pretty large number of such odd users for me, perhaps failing to register pages visited in too narrow time intervals.
I'm leaving the question for posterity, and perhaps for those who can find my code snippet useful.
Is it possible to push custom channel group into Google analytics in a similar way as events? For events I use this code:
_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Popup - displayed', 'Popup displayed - Popup Id 5', 'This is popup title']);
Now I want to push new custom channel group Popup displayed each time user get served popup so I can compare results with Organic search without popup, Direct traffic without popup with organic search with popup.
I would like to accomplish something like this:
Tnx!
With the current Google Analytics version you could use a set call with your tracker object to overwrite campaign data and then create a custom channel definition that matches your custom data:
trackers = ga.getAll();
tracker = trackers[0];
tracker.set('campaignMedium', 'withPopup');
No idea how you would do this with your version of Analytics which is deprecated. Also this may have side effects (like loosing the original campaign data).
However you may simply create two segments, one for users who have seen the event and those who have not. Since you can select multiple segments this allows for a comparison without changing anything in the code.
I am in the process of setting up enhanced Ecommerce for GA and have had a few requests of additional of what else the client would like to see in their reports. Once of which is
"Where can i see a report if the locations that a use types in when they use the store locator"
There is already an internal search functionality thats been set up and is tracking the search terms people are typing when looking for products, but i'm not sure if i would need to set this up as a second search terms report or if it's something different?
The URL of the page is different to the internal search results and is www.domain.com/store-locator#wales|GB|0|0|0
Any insight into this would be really helpful.
Thanks,
Roxi
As to me knowledge, you are not able to use bookmarks (#something) in GA for internal site search setup. Only GET and POST parameters are allowed. In your situation I think the best solution is to use GA events to send the data about used location each time the user is using this functionality. You need to include addition ga() function call to track those events. Info about how to set it up you could find here: event tracking. After setting things up, you will see all the info about number and type of called events in Behavior -> Events reports section in GA.
Example code:
<button onlick="var hash_location=window.location.hash;ga('send','event','Locator',has_location)">Click me</button>
With such function new event will be send to GA with Event Category=Locator and Event Action=hash in the url. You have some complicated hash, so most probably you need to extract first some info from this using regular expression. Example to get first item from |-separated list in the hash:
var pattern = new RegExp('[^#|]+');
var hash_location = pattern.exec(window.location.hash)[0];
I'm in a situation in which i need to be able to create a topics using self created bot. My forum has a special category and user, which can create a topics in that category.
Technology i'm using to create that bot is ruby + mechanize gem but it's not important right now. That bot works in a following way:
Sign in as previously mentioned user:
visit - /ucp.php?mode=login
fill the sign-in form using user credentials
if, after submiting a form, there is a sign-out link somewhere on the page, threat this whole process as "successfull"
Create a topic
visit - /posting.php?mode=post&f=21
fill subject field with desired subject
fill message field with desired message
submit a form using Submit button
And now, while first point works just great, the second one behaves in a strange way. After submiting a form, there is no error message or anything like that, i'm just getting redirected to /viewforum.php?f=21 (log's says that it's 302 Moved Temporarily status) page and the topic is not there.
Can anyone tell me what such behaviour means? Is there any security mechanism i don't know about? Please also note that the new topic form has form_token and creation_time fields filled correctly while form is beeing submited.
Thanks in advance for any clues.
According to this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11713867/552936, user is treated as a bot if he sends a form without any delay (and it end's up with a 302 redirect). I can't find any info on google what's the exact delay, carck3r says that it's 8 seconds but for me, it was 2 seconds.
I have a web app. The home page has two main actions:
Sign up to the application
Log into the application
I have a goal set up for sign-ups. I am trying to track the goal conversion rate of users who have never logged into the application before.
The problem I have at the moment is that the conversion rate is being skewed by users who are visiting the homepage simply to log in.
Is there a simple way of doing this?
Thanks very much,
Ben
For the kind of tracking you are looking for, there should be some coding on both your system and Google Analytics.
First, I would recommend you place into your system the intelligence to know the number of log-ins the user has made (As an example, a counter on your database).
Now, to implement that, you will need to set a Custom Var in Google Analytics in a visit level, to segment the users from the non-users, in that CustomVar, you can store both the user ID and the number of logins he has made.
This is the on the login page:
Your Code Should Look Like:
_gaq.push(['_setCustomVar',
1,
'Member Login',
'NUMBER OF LOGINS', // SET THIS FROM YOUR SYSTEM
2 //VISIT LEVEL Custom Var
]);
Remember that this code should go before tracking the pageview.
After setting this up, you should use Advanced Segments to check those specific users, one case could be: (Using the example above)
Setup an Advanced Segment that "Excludes" the Custom Variable (Key 1) - Mathing RegExp : .*
This will give you all the never-loged user access.
Something else you could do is set up Adv Segments to check on a specific number of logins
Setup an Advanced Segment that "Excludes" the Custom Variable (Key 1) - Mathing RegExp : [^1]
This will give you all the users that loged-in more than once.
You can find more info on Custom Vars here.