I would like to allow contextual advertisers to view the statistics of some specific events.
Is it possible in Google Analytics to give permissions to a user to only view specific events?
Well you could create a view where you filter out everything except those events and give them permissions only for that view. That sound impractical, though.
I would rather suggest you create a custom report for that event and have it mailed once a week or so to your publishers (you will find the mail facility in the top menu where it says, well, 'email').
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We have a site where users login to access technical information. Before accessing the information, they also have to enter a set of filter options. Different filter options result in different information displayed on different pages but the url is the same.
For example, a user will get the following URL when accessing a specific document, regardless of what filter options set:
www.site.com/fr/category/document/
Depending on the filter options, different sections of the document will be visible.
Currently, no information in GA tells us what filters were used when visiting the page. We do not want to add filter parameters to the URL. At least not for the visitor, but maybe add it in the tracking somehow?
What would be the optimal/correct way to track that kind of information?
Best solution may depends how your site works etc. But how about using custom dimensions assigned to "hit" (pageview) scope? Maybe they will help in your case? Documentation: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/custom-dims-mets (code in documentation depends how your GA is implemented of course). Thanks to them you can send with pageviews hit additional (custom) information (e.g which filters were used).
Other way could be just sending google analytics event (https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/events) with information which filters were used before pageview hit. Then just in Google Analytics panel you can create custom segment with sequence where 2 events occurred:
Click (or use filters) - event
See specific URL - pageview
Or of course you can implement both solutions (custom dimensions for pageview and events).
I've inherited some websites. In Google Analytics, some have filters attached to them as a view - which is filtering out all traffic. How do I delete these?! In Admin > View > Filters, there is no delete button. When I try to change the filter, there's no save button, but if I navigate away from the page, an alert pops up saying "Your changes have not been saved". How on earth do I alter the view? Thanks
Google analytics has two permissions levels which are;
1. Edit Permissions at account level
2. Edit permission at view level
From your statement, it is clear you have been given the 'edit permissions at account' level since you dont have the options to delete at views level. This is due to the fact that you inherited the account and the main admin hasn't given you that authorizations yet.
Kindly find more information from this link below;
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034823#Permissions
I do not understand how to catch data from an event in google analytics.
I watch my event
My dataLayer is like the documentation (https://developers.google.com/tag-manager/enhanced-ecommerce#cart)
My question is : How can i see that (product's data and actionField) in Google Analytics ?
Thanks,
The "step" is visible in the Checkout Behavior report in the E-Commerce-Section of the Conversions-Menu (it's displayed as a funnel step in the visualization and you can give it a proper name in the view settings).
Checkout options can be displayed as secondary dimensions, used in segments, custom reports and via the API (they are not part of the standard reports).
According to the Google Analytics "Creating a Report" guide, a required field for a request is the viewId:
A valid view ID for the viewId field.
Cool. So what is a viewId and where do I find it? I click on the viewId link and it says:
Unique View Id for retrieving Analytics data.
Umm. Ok. But what is it, and how do I find it for the report I want? It doesn't appear to be the same as "property ID". Come on Google, we need a little more to work with here.
Following below steps to get View ID.
Sign in to Google Analytics.
Click Admin, and navigate to View.
In the VIEW column, click View Settings.
View ID places in Basic Settings
A property is where the data is collected (so hits to a property count toward your hit quota for that account). A view is where you look at the data, it displayed hits from the property. Hits displayed in view do not count towards your quota.
Use cases are that you can include/exclude/change the data in views by filters, and set different permissions for views (e.g. different departments should have access only to tracking for certain sub-directories, stuff like that). You can create up to 25 views with different settings per property.
You find the view id when you go to the admin section and look at the outer right column (which is labelled "views"). Select the view you want to query from the dropdown and go to "view settings", there you find the id. Or visit the query explorer while you are logged in to Google and select the view from the dropdown, this will also show the view id (and you can start testing queries right away).
This document describes the Google Analytics account structure, and should answer your question as to what a view is:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1009618
If you're even unsure of what ID to use with a particular GA API, you can use the account explorer to find out:
https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/account-explorer/
Only Universal Analytics property have VIEWID, GA4 has not.
I have a site that lists business listings from a database. On each page you can do different things such as forward it to a friend, print the page etc. My question is could I use google analytics to track impressions and views for each listing? So if I showed the top 10 listings on the home page I want to track each listing as an impression since its being showed, then if they click one of the links to view the business listing it tracks it as a view. Then on the business listing details page if they do any of the actions such as forward to a friend or print the page I want to track that as well.
For tracking views/clicks Im assuming I would need to use setPageView passing something like setPageView('/listing/12345') correct? I dont know how to track it for impressions though. Then on the listing details page to track if they printed it etc Im assuming I would track it as an event? Such as trackEvent('listing', 'Print') if that is what I need to do for event how does it associate with the page tracking so that I could see how many times someone printed the listing page for /listings/12345?
No need to create fake page views. Google Analytics has a feature called Event Tracking, which is described in the Event Tracking Guide. The guide has an illustrative example;
A simple example illustrates how you might use the Event Tracking method
to record user interaction with a video Play link on your page. It
assumes that pageTracker is the name used for your tracking object.
Play
In this scenario, the reports for Events would display Videos as the Category,
Play as the Action, and Baby's First Birthday as the Label.
In your case, you would track Views and Clicks using the Event Tracking feature. You'd have to decide on how you'd want Actions, Categories and Labels set up to match your data. You might want package types (Gold, Silver etc) as Categories or Labels, for example.
This question and its answers are similar to your scenario.