I am experiencing an extremely weird behaviour by the funnel Visualization inside my reports.
I set up a goal with the intention to measure my conversion rate in my shop. So I set up a goal of type destination. The value of my destination field is ^/config/paypal/success.* and of type regular expression, because the URL could be something like http://example.com/config/paypal/success?name=asdasd&date=asdad
I have inserted a constant value of 24,99$ and activated the funnel.
Next I created 4 Steps:
step1: ^/$
step2: ^/config/as34Sfs/page1
step3: ^/config/as34Sfs/page2
step4: ^/config/as34Sfs/page3
Saved this and expected the funnel to work.
Adjusted the configuration alot of times to influence the results.
But they always output something different. I dont know how to test my expressions.
Right now the funnel exits 9/10 on the first step. One exit is ^/config/as34Sfs/page1 (WTF? shouldnt it just funnel to the next step then?) 1/10 goes down to step3 and is exited to ^/config/as34Sfs/page2 (WTF? AGAIN?)
I have a strange feeling that I am completely doing something wrong
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I have added a $ at the end of every step. This seems to solve the problem. But the question remains.
EDIT2: A few hours later it seems to have WRONG data again?! whats going on!?
EDIT3: Any lonely soul reading this and wondering about the same thing, I think it has something to do with step1. It was marked necessary. When I unchecked it it all worked (With incoming pageviews in each funnel step but anyway evaluable data)
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My goal is to see which customers originate from organic search, but convert via a different source later on.
To do this, I defined this segment:
Then, I look at the Source/Medium report, but the results seem off. I expected to see zero revenue in the google/organic row (as the segment should show users where the transaction is specifically not coming from google/organic.
Am I using the right tool for what I'm trying to achieve? And if so, what am I doing wrong?
The conversion path in Google Analytics is a better solution here. You can find it under conversions -> multi-channel funnels -> top conversion paths.
What you're going to see here is all the combinations of channels that have been used to generate a conversion, see the screenshot below.
If you have a bigger website you're probably going to have >10.000 different conversion paths depending on the time period that you select. What you want to realize is how much conversion value and conversion was generated in conversion paths that started with organic, but ended with a different channel. Simply apply the filter below in the report to retrieve that data. Please note that in the standard Google Analytics reports all conversions and conversion value are attributed to the last, non-direct click.
The solution is to add a condition that includes only sessions as described in the second step of the sequence. This will reduce the population from all users that present the pattern in the sequence, to only sessions that matter. See detailed explanation here: https://www.napkyn.com/2017/09/07/quick-google-analytics-trick-use-sequence-segments-to-analyse-behavior-over-multiple-sessions/
My first post. I'm having big problems with a Goal Funnel in Google Analytics.
We've set up a funnel to track registration from our main company site to user registration which is handled on a third-party site (using a virtual pageview to track the user's 'click' to continue to the registration).
We're clearly doing something wrong however as the funnel seems to have a conversion rate of 100% for several steps. From the many tutorials and posts I've read it looks like there could be something wrong in our syntax and GA is seeing at least two pages as the same then backfilling the funnel to give this incorrect 100%.
Problem is - after many tweaks - we still can't seem to find quite what this error is. I'm also not entirely sure if we should be using 'begins with' or 'regular expression' for the funnel and if that the correct application of one of those would nip this data issue in the bud instantly.
Underneath is the configuration and then the data it's showing us in GA.
Thanks for any help on this!
p.s. Since we're using tag manager, I also wasn't sure if this could this be something in our firing rules but since the first conversion step in the funnel looks ok I guess that rules this out and points straight to the funnel??
p.p.s. Sorry, since I normally just read, I don't have permission to embed images.
[The goal flow]
[IMG]http://i60.tinypic.com/pmwk8.png[/IMG]
[The funnel setup]
[IMG]http://i58.tinypic.com/23lkqqt.png[/IMG]
The virtual pageview you have in the second image in step 2, is: virtual/registration. The virtual pageview that is firing off when I click on Register for online account is: /virtual/cas-registration#https://signin.mygovscot.org/home/?sp=register/CLK. So you'll want to update step 2 to: /virtual/cas-registration(.*) - I believe you can use regular expressions in goal funnel steps.
I'm not getting the right results returned for a goal I have set up. The goal says the last 7 days have 92 goal conversions, when it should be 400+.
When a user completes a subscription purchase, they land on a confirmation page. We have several subdomains that the user can be coming from as well as the potential for a reference appended to the URL. So, I have the goal set up as a regular expression like this:
.*/insider/confirm.*
If, for example, the user pays and then is directed to the following page, shouldn't the goal be recorded?
test.com/insider/confirm?ref=2343
As I can't see anything wrong with the regular expression, although very greedy, the goals should be captured with the above example URL and goal setup.
Have you recently set this goal up? A thing with goals are that they aren't historically applicable to your data. They start collecting data from the point where you set it up.
Have you tried using the above regexp in the "All pages"-report under "Behavior"? Enter it into the filter pattern and there you can see exactly what pages your regexp would capture.
I have 10 goals set up in Google analytics. They all share the same completion URL, but all have different funnels / steps before completion.
Today I know that I have one goal completion, but looking at the report there is 10 reported. So completions are counted for all my goals.
Has anyone experienced the same and figured out a solution?
The funnel steps apply only fo the funnel report. The Goal Completions are based only on the Goal Url. Hence if you have the same Goal Url for all of them you will have 10 Goal Completions no matter what are the steps you have setup for each one of them.
Isn't it a possibility to use a different completion url for all of them?
Having looked through the questions already on SO, I can't seem to find the answer on how to track a form that has multiple steps on one page. I saw an example that Google gives but could not really understand the way they were presenting it. What we have is a one page order form and need to track the users that come from a website and end up ordering. the whole ordering process is done with one file so I don't know how to track whether or not someone has actually completed the order. Any help would be great, even directing me to better examples than what Google has shown to me.
Thank you
Rob
Just call the JS function _gaq.push([trackPageview,'/form/stepXX']); each time the process reaches a new step.
You can pass any text string you want as a parameter.
Then you can configure a Goal and a funnel in GA with all the major steps of process
You can also track Events in case of errors for example.
(this uses the GA Async syntax)