I have custom events being successfully tracked in Google Analytics.
However, when adding a secondary dimension of page, or when creating a custom report to group custom events by page, my numbers go way off. The total events number goes down, and half of the events that I saw in the unfiltered report are no longer there. My custom report is setup quite standard from what I can tell. Does anybody have any experience or similar issues to this? Are we not tracking something correctly?
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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).
I'm just getting to grips with Google Analytics for a site I'm doing some content management for, and want to know how to look at the traffic for pages created recently/in specific timeframes.
Anyone got any ideas?
You would need to log the page creation date as a custom dimension. Then you'd need to select your timeframe, and filter by your custom dimension (via regex, since you cannot apply the date filter to a custom dimension).
If the page does not have any hits in the selected timeframe it will not show up at all. And in any case you will see only metrics from the hits in the selected timeframe, even if the page has been created before that.
So this is sort of possible, but rather more complicated than one would assume.
I have ecommerce tracking setup and working fine, now i want to add some extra views/profiles to the same analytics property, will the ecommerce information also show up for the new view or do i need to do anything to make sure this works???
It appears that filtering does affect ecommerce transactions and values from appearing on a analytics view. The best method is to use segments to show transactions on certain areas/categories of your website.
Please help me understand this. I have a client for whom we created a sweepstakes "mini site". Traffic was generated through banner ads, eBlasts, and newsletters. For the banner ads, I created custom urls, i.e. www.somewhere.com?utm_source=yahoo?utm_campaign=abc to track the traffic to the landing page per vendor/banner. this works just fine.
The entrant visits the page, signs up for the sweepstakes, has as double opt in email process for verification. All of my entering traffic to the landing page is tracking fine, and is properly broken down by utm_source and utm_campaign.
Some of the vendors had me place tracking pixels on the confirmation page for conversion statistics. The only info I have placed for internal tracking on the confirmation page is the GA tracking code.
I have been told to create tracking pixels to track the individual vendor conversions. Is this possible without the originating pixel data from the vendor? I am new to tracking pixels, but my understanding is that I need some information from the vendor in order to write the code for the pixel. Am I wrong?
I can't understand how we can place a tracking pixel on our end without at least campaign name or data from the vendor's tracking pixel that they placed on the page containing our banner ads.
What am I missing here? How can I actually separate the conversion traffic from the different sources when everyone receives the same double-opt-in email?
Please ask me to clarify if I am not being clear. Thanks in advance for reading my question.
There are two things you are trying to track here. One is Campaigns: Campaigns are how you measure the effectiveness of techniques to bring users to your site.
The other thing you are tracking is Events - this is what users are doing once they arrive at your site. If you want to track individual vendor conversions, you should add an onclick handler to either the submit button, or link that you are calling a "conversion"
For example:
Your link here
If you are adding the push to a form submit, you might want to have that push happen on the pageload of the success page, rather than the onClick of the submit (otherwise it will track the event, and it might not have actually happened due to form validation errors for example)
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.