Google Analytics Event and Goal Tracking - google-analytics

I am stuck at point and don't know how to go ahead. The scenario is -
I am tracking the visitors flow and registration on my website. I have also created different funnels and goals for the same.
Note - after coming to my website, there are 3 other ways through which a visitor can register on my website and I have created separate funnels for those flows.
Secondly, all registered users(through all funnels) are getting approved by the admin at the back end. I am separately able to capture that data in an event and hence created a goal for the number of approved users but still don't know through which funnel they registered and got approved.
My question is " How can i track and show the numbers in GA that the approved user is coming from a particular funnel/flow. For example - 4 approved user came through funnel A, 6 came through funnel B and 2 came through C."
Is it possible to show in GA?

Create custom segment: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3124493?hl=en
which includes users that have reached goal.
Then you can get Acquisition reports for this segment.

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GA: How much time have my 100 most "obsessed" users spent on my site

Does Google Analytics have enough information to answer the question of how much time have my top 100 users spent on my site? I don't need their user information, I don't care about ID or name which I know it doesn't even have. Just the identification of individual users by the cookie GA uses, and a report of how much time the top 100 loyal users spent on my site.
is such a thing possible at all with GA?
From your comment on Colwin's answer:
I don't need google if I have to track this for GA, I just hoped it already has this information such as "page visit duration" on a per-user, ongoing basis. If I had to feed Google that information myself, I can feed my own database and run analytics on it. Thanks anyway.
The Google analytics sessions is
a group of user interactions with your website that take place within a given time frame. For example a single session can contain multiple page views, events, social interactions, and ecommerce transactions.
Average session duration will be calculated as
total duration of all sessions / number of sessions
I don't think this is available from GA out of the box. But you can build something like this with Custom Dimensions available within GA
This will let you setup and send custom metrics dimensions for users that you can then create reports for.
Google Analytics doesn’t allow you to out in PII but random visitor id's should be fine. You can then compare against your own database outside of GA if needed too.
This will allow tracking the same visitor even without them being logged in to your site.
Sending the custom dimensions could possibly look like this.
ga('send', 'pageview', {
'dimension5': '1234567890'
});
You get 20 free custom dimension slots with GA and 200 with GA 360 -> More info here
I think this article has what you are looking for
https://webanalyticsguy.com/2018/01/18/google-analytics-capture-client-id-reporting-purposes/
It shows how to capture the client id which is a decent way to track a specific user. And goes further to explain how to associate that with a metric, in this case the author uses PageView.
You could change this to Average Session Duration or another metric that gives you a sense of time spent.
I guess that you are looking for something like this:
http://www.analytics-ninja.com/blog/2015/02/real-time-page-google-analytics.html
You can get the counts of the users on your site. You can get the seconds they spent on your website page.
I guess this answer will be helpful too: https://qr.ae/TWpkI0

Create a goal in Google Analytics from the last two visited pages where the last one is goal destination url

I have to calculate the conversion rate for an ecommerce website which had no defined goals for a long period of time. Aside that the success page had no distinct url than the order view page.
However I am able to identify a conversion by filtering the order-view pageviews -
where users are redirected after they place an order - by the traffic that came only from shopping-cart page.
Basically I will know an order was placed if the user that reached order view page came directly from the shopping cart page.
So my question is: can I create a goal in google analytics that will compute the conversion rate from these two steps starting with installing Google Analitycs?
Thank you!

Google Analytics Goal Tracking - visitor leaves then comes back

Question about goal tracking.
I have an application that I can track from Step 1 to Step 10, and the user submits data on step 11.
Pretty standard form.
We then intake the application, evaluate, then send the user and email to log back in and accept our terms and purchase the product, which are steps 12-15.
If I set up a goal funnel, will analytics know the users has come back and completed steps 12-15?
Or do I basically lose all tracking after step 11?
There are some limitations in GA that could be a bit troublesome:
30-min session window: if user comes back later, new session is initiated.
multiple browsers/devices: if finishing the last 3 steps after receiving your email is done on different laptop/mobile device, the user will have different ClientID and so you won't be able to stitch the data together (in GA reporting interface).
There are many more aspects to it - but if the two limitations listed above doesn't seem like relevant, then the implementation shouldn't be tat difficult. For more technical details, I'd consider using MeasurementProtocol (fancy name for server-side tracking).

Google Analytics Bloated Data

I manage an internal website and we recently implemented campaign tracking for our emails and homepage links to see where traffic comes from.
I set up the URLs using the Google URL builder.
The data we're receiving is very bloated. We ran a test URL with 8 people, and we received 129 "views", with an average of 9 views per day for over a month. No one clicked this link after the first day.
Our average session times were about 30 minutes, which is very strange.
My questions are:
how does google track campaigns? If you use a tracking URL, does the cookie track views for any organic views after that?
Is there a tool we can use to only track first time visits using a campaign URL?
Admittedly, I'm fairly new to Google Analytics, but no one on our marketing analytics team was able to help.
Since you used the Google URL builder I don't think you have made any mistakes there. However I strongly think that the bloated data is due to Bot traffic in your account. And yes, the bot traffic does increase average session duration.
So here's a set of steps I'll suggest:
1) Create 3 views in Google Analytics (It is a best practice):
Unfiltered, Master, Test
2) Check for Langauage spam and weird referrals in your report.
3) Add filters to "Test" view to remove these bots & spam referrals. You'll need to write a regular expression for each of these filters. Also make sure you have enabled "bot filtering" in view settings for master & test view. (I am leaving Unfiltered view as it is our data backup in case if anything goes wrong.)
4) Check your traffic for next few days and try doing the URL test again and see the results.
5) If the results in Test View are correct, then apply the same filters to "Master" view.
I hope this helps.

google analytics user engagement frequency

New to Google Analytics and couldn't figure out how to get this to show.
I would like to figure out how frequently a user visits our site after they've registered. The reason is I want track their engagement following their registration.
So let's say user registered at week 0, I want to figure out how many times they come back in week 1, week 2 and week 3. This way I can tell whether users tend to stay engaged for first 2 weeks, then slowly loses interests, or their interests grows as the weeks goes by after they've registered. Any idea on how to achieve this?
Thanks!
Set a custom variable at visitor level when your users register. Use that to build a segment for visitors that have at some point registered at your site. Apply that segment to the "frequency and recency" report (audience->behaviour->frequency and recency).
The custom variable will allow you to recognize visitors that have registered (even if they are not currently logged in) until they change browsers or delete their GA cookies.

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