I try to get a list of pages people go after visiting the selected page. pagePath is a starting page, nextPagePath is the result list of pages I'm interested in. I included a filter to show only one starting page. But the result I get is confusing:
What am I doing wrong?!
Use ga:previousPagePath instead of ga:pagePath. For the reason to me unknown, ga:pagePath and ga:nexPagePath refers in GA API to the same thing.
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I'm trying to add Google Analytics' URL tracking parameters to a recently redesigned website
The original URL:
https://www.funakoshi.co.jp/searches?search_type=searchAntibody&keywords=GTX127375
Adding campaign parameters:
https://www.funakoshi.co.jp/searches?search_type=searchAntibody&keywords=GTX127375&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GeneTex_Funakoshi_Adwords
You should notice that the appended parameters are affecting the internal site search. In the original search URL, there are two results returned. When the URL/campaign parameters are added, the search result is null.
I've noticed the site's internal search isn't affected until the = is added after "&utm_source="
So
https://www.funakoshi.co.jp/searches?search_type=searchAntibody&keywords=GTX127375&utm_source
Still returns the two results for the internal site query and
https://www.funakoshi.co.jp/searches?search_type=searchAntibody&keywords=GTX127375&utm_source?
Does not.
Why might this be the case? Any help here would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Patrick
Let's say I have a site and the user comes into it with a parameter:
http://example.com&url=blahblahblah
How do I go about passing along the url value from the parameter into Google Analytics?
1) User comes to the page with a url in the params
2) User clicks a download link with a ga tracking code attached to it which was generated from ga account like this:
http://example.com/download/param1=dkljdf&_ga=1.149898996.39207121.1424368466
You have to create a custom Dimension and a metric for that.
About custom Dimensions and metrics:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/platform/customdimsmets
After you have created a Dimension, you can add metrics to it by view, in example.
Follow the steps here for Universal Analytics:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/custom-dims-mets
Note that due to not have 10 point of reputation, I wrote the a "_" in http like "ht_tp"
BUT:
I think what you want to know is the number os visitors that clicks a download link in your site that comes from, lets say "blahblahblah" as web origin or other methods.
For that, you have the param utm_source that you can receive directly in the url.
So instead of ht_tp://example.com&url=origin you should receive ht_tp://example.com&utm_source=origin
In this way, you have no care about it. Analytics is going to take care for you so you can get a report of clicks by source.
Or, just use the referer in case all the incoming visitors are from webs:
ga('set', 'referrer', 'ht_tp://example.com');
And a final option, to use Events:
_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'ReferencedVisitors', jsVarWhereYouHaveTheOrigin]);
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 want to have content groups in Google Analytics and I'm using Google Tag Manager to implement them. The way to do it, according to their reference, is to create a lookup table that is using the url_path macro to filter URLs. The url_path only gives the path of the URL, stripping the end of it, so for a url http://www.example.com/hello/index.html the result would be /hello/.
I want to group my users' account pages which are like: http://www.example.com/accounts/profile/user1/
The problem with the above macro is that it would return /accounts/profile/user1 which is not what I want. I only want to keep /accounts/profile/.
How could I accomplish that using this macro?
For helping you, in GTM you just have to configure the "Content Grouping" part (and take special care of the index that you put in). All the stuff is on GA Backend, where you declare your content group and which give you an index for each content group (index that you have to keep in GTM).
For some GA account you have to wait around 48 hours till you got some data, if your hit is ok you can see your content grouping information in the variable utmpg (like :" 1:Accueil,2:Page de destination | Actualité | ---,5:www.ouest-france.fr/home" for example).
Hopes it will help you to understand.
Fanny
How can you modify the URL for the current page that gets passed to Google Analytics?
(I need to strip the extensions from certain pages because for different cases a page can be requested with or without it and GA sees this as two different pages.)
For example, if the page URL is http://mysite/cake/ilikecake.html, how can I pass to google analytics http://mysite/cake/ilikecake instead?
I can strip the extension fine, I just can't figure out how to pass the URL I want to Google Analytics. I've tried this, but the stats in the Google Analytics console don't show any page views:
pageTracker._trackPageview('cake/ilikecake');
Thanks,
Mike
You could edit the GA profile and add custom filters ...
Create a 'Search and Replace' custom filter, setting the filter field to 'Request URI' and using something like:
Search String: (.*ilikecake\.)html$
Replace String: $1
(was \1)
Two possibilities come to mind:
it can take a while, up to about 24 hours, for visits to be reflected in the Analytics statistics. How long ago did you make your change?
try beginning the pathname with a "/", so
pageTracker._trackPageview('/cake/ilikecake');
and then wait a bit, as per the first item.
Usually you have the ga script code at the end of your file, while special _trackPageviews() calls are often used somewhere else.
Have you made sure you have your call to pageTracker._trackPageview() after you have defined the pagetracker?
Like this:
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-XXXXXXX-X");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
otherwise you just get a JavaScript error I suppose.