Where to find uid (User ID) list in Google Analytics - google-analytics

I'm using the tracking pixel on a newsletter with the following URL:
<img src="http://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&tid=UA-XXXXXXXX-1&cid=111&uid=123&t=event&ec=email&ea=open&el=111&cs=newsletter&cm=email&cn=062413&cm1=1" alt="" />
I can correctly see how many times the newsletter gets opened but I cannot find on Analytics where to see who actually opened it, where do I find the uid list in order to know who opened the email?

You can view the same in Top Events reports.
Go to Behaviour > Events > Top Events and then select secondary dimension as User ID as below. There you will be able to see User ID with Total Events.
Hope this helps !

You have to
enable user id tracking for this ga property first
then create a custom view
then send data and wait
See https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3123666
As this is not referenced from the ga protocol documentation, this is very unclear when you start to use GA

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Is the Google Analytics "UA-" prefix gone for properties

I just created a new property in Google Analytics and was looking for the property ID, in this format: UA-xxxxxxx-y
I can only find a number 9 digit number.
Is the format changed since Google Analytics G4?
I'm following this guide and I'm looking for the Tracking ID they mention: Setmore Setup Guide
The Property creation process now defaults to GA4 (formerly known as app+web) Properties.
If you want to create a Universal (formerly known as web) Property,
goto the Admin page where it lists your GA Account and the existing GA4 Property.
Click the +Create new property button at the top of the property column.
Once on the new Property Settings page, select the blue link Show advanced options to see and toggle on the Universal property options.
Select create Universal Property only.
Then click Next and complete the Property creation.
You will then be able to access the Universal gtag.js tracking code snippet via the Tracking Info section in the Property column and your UA-XXXX tracking Id will be on the top of the Property Settings page.
Google Analytics 4 doesn't have property ids it has MEASUREMENT_ID which is just a 9 digit number.

Virtual page view issues -datalayer- GTM

I'm working with this preebuild ecommerce system, all of the checkout is in an iframe. And the event below is pushed at every major step, 'checkout 1','checkout 2','payment details' and 'transaction complete' page & title reflects each steps. But NOTE the event name 'VirtualPageview' is the same for all steps mentioned above.
{
event: 'VirtualPageview',
page: '/Test/test',
title 'test | test',
gtm.uniqueEventId:25
}
Visual in gtm debugger:
https://gyazo.com/6356cc13f6b63cad73e55d10abc90154
Now i'm wondering if there is any way to track this as pageviews in analytics? (My primary goal is to create a funnel visualization)
I've read through so much information and as a beginner i'm quite overwhelmed, i would appreciate a little info to point me in the right direction.
Here is what i've done this far, not sure if i'm on the right path.
I feel limited with this setup, because the trigger will trigger on all steps because event name is the same, that would be fine if i could somehow grab page and page title from datalayer dynamically.
GTM TAG
https://gyazo.com/6f7ea35307bca9694835359485b9f74d
GTM Trigger
https://gyazo.com/4c3b489f627dd72e17816e5b5f61f299
You have to create a DataLayer variable called page and another called title (names of your variables) and use them as field values like this: {{page}}

Tracking user link clicks with google analytics

I have created an affiliate marketing website. Here users will register on my website and shop, however the shopping link will be of amazon.
I need to know how to set up Google Analytics so that it can track which registered user has clicked an affiliate link on my website.
For example I have this amazon link
https://www.amazon.in/BassHeads-225-Super-Extra-Headphones/dp/B01M9C51T9/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&pf_rd_i=desktop&pf_rd_m=A1VBAL9TL5WCBF&pf_rd_p=14ffe21a-e5a2-45c9-a9c0-91f47b082bbc&pf_rd_r=94G5Y8CM93G8M5Y2SNS3&pf_rd_t=36701&qid=1554008093&s=gateway&smid=A14CZOWI0VEHLG&sr=8-1
I know I'm supposed to put an onClick event on there somewhere but I don't have any idea how it links to Google Analytics? I am using Google Tag Manager
Is this the correct Onclick code:
onClick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Link', 'Click', 'Banner Advert1']);"
If not what do I need to add to track the registered user?
I have many links to external sites on my website; an example link looks like this:
<a id="Buy" data-itemDescription="(a description)" data-itemValue="2.80" href=http://externalsite?id=6789>
The key things here are the extra attributes before the href: id (used to identify the specific event that occurs when the link is clicked, i.e. in this case a Buy event) and the data-itemDescription and data-itemValue metadata (used in constructing the event label etc.)
The relevant GTM artefacts are as follows:
Trigger:
Buy: Click - Just Links when Click Id contains Buy
User-defined variables (custom Javascript):
ItemDescription:
function() {
return {{Click Element}}.getAttribute("data-itemDescription");
}
ItemValue:
function() {
return {{Click Element}}.getAttribute("data-itemValue");
}
ItemValueFloat (100 multiplier used because GA didn't like my decimal places - I then divide by 100 at reporting time to get the right answer):
function() {
return parseFloat({{ItemValue}})*100;
}
Tag BuyClicked is an Event triggered by the Buy trigger as above, with:
Category = Purchase Tracking
Action = Purchase {{ItemDescription}}
Label = {{Page Path}} : {{Click URL}}
Value = {{ItemValueFloat}}
I also have Non-Interaction Hit set True.
The BuyClicked event is then collected by GA, and reportable on from e.g. Google Data Studio, without my having to do anything further.
If you can't add an id or metadata, you could undoubtedly do the same sort of thing more painfully by handling all clicks through a single trigger and then parsing the Click URL via custom Javascript to get granular Categories, Actions, Labels.

Custom Dimension in Google Analytics not showing in my queries

I am using a Custom Dimension to send my internal UserId to GA. What we need is to know which users are clicking on this button. But when I try to get reports using the Category and Event for this button click, and I include my dimension on the report, it won't show any result.
But, if I only request eventCategory or eventLabel, it will show for example 2 hits. Which is weird because I am sending the dimension value with each click event that I am tracking, and seems like I don't have values for this specific event.
How can I make sure I have information in GA for this event?
I had the same problem. You need to set custom dimension index on your google analytics console.
Once you login into your google analytics console, go to admin tab.
At bottom of the middle column you can see Custom Definitions.
Click on Custom Dimension under Custom Definitions and define Custom dimension name for your custom dimension index. Default scope is for hit, if you want that for session change the scope.
This is all for V4 version of the analytic.
Please try this code:
GoogleAnalytics analytics = GoogleAnalytics.getInstance(YourActivity.this);
Tracker tracker = analytics.newTracker("TRACKER ID");
tracker.setScreenName("SCREEN NAME");
tracker.send(new HitBuilders.AppViewBuilder()
.setCustomDimension(1, "VALUE")
.setCustomMetric(1,1)
.build());
Here is 1 in custom dimension and custom metric is the index.

How can I make sure that gtm send the pageview fast?

I am making the change from the basic analytics code to google tag manager since I need it to track impressions for certain elements. While testing when the pageview fires, I get this warning :
"This page took a long time to send a pageview hit to Google Analytics. Users could be clicking away from your site before it records a pageview."
Google tag manager requires adding the code at the beginning of the body (I tried adding it in the header just in case it helps with that warning, but that didn't work).
Probably GA is not the best choice for such task. GA is well-tailored for pageviews, but not for custom actions.
I solve similar issue with http://www.devmetrics.io analytics. To track impressions for certain elements on my page: 1) add for each of this elements trackvisible css class 2) using setInterval check visibility every few seconds.
Example code using jQuery and devmetrics analytics:
$('.trackvisible').each(function( index ) {
if ($(this).visible()) {
var tag = 'element.' + $(this).attr('id');
devmetrics.userEvent('impression', [tag]);
}
});

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