There is a submission form with multiple URLs, but it has multiple forms on a single URL. Its not a problem to track successful submissions, but I would like to know where they abandon (on which of the forms what are located on a single URL). Is it possible to create a funnel for events to track it and how to do it?
To back up my comment, the documentation says explicitly
When you create a Destination Goal, you also have the option to create
Funnel for that Goal.
Since an event goal is not a destination goal there are no funnels for events.
However I don't quite see your problem; you can set different actions or labels with the event for ever form and set up multiple goals, one for each event action (up tp 20 obviously). A funnel would only help you with a multi-step process, I do not see how this applies here.
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I have an event that triggers from my tag manager every time someone clicks a certain URL link. This event appears to be tracking properly in GA. However, I am attempting to create a filtered view that excludes traffic that triggers this event. When I use the Filter Verification I get:
"This filter would not have changed your data. Either the filter configuration is incorrect, or the set of sampled data is too small."
Indeed it does not change my data. I am using the event label as the field field/pattern if that makes a difference. Any suggestions?
Ok, there are issues with this question. But first, the answer is: filters aren't meant to remove more than particular hits. They aren't meant to remove sessions or users. Only hits. But there's a hackaround.
Now, more points:
You don't exclude "traffic". Traffic is not precise enough to be useful here. You have to decide what you want to exclude: an event, a session or a user. Or something inbetween, but then you need to define it properly.
A session in Google's understanding is really a bit different from what it seems like. It is custom to believe that a session is a series of interactional events with less than 30 minutes (configurable) inbetween. Not quite. If your source changes, that's a new session. Bear with me.
You... can hack around it if you really need to. By "painting" users or sessions. You do it by setting a specific custom dimension (user- or session-level) and then delete all events that have that custom dimension set using a view filter. The CD will be backfilled, so the filter should clean stuff close to how you expect it to do.
However! GA is... a little bit odd with how they record sessions and users. There may occur a situation when you end up having users or sessions with no events in them. However, if you find this issue at play, you still can export the data to BQ and query it properly. You may find that export cleaner.
There are two events.
User visit /point1.
User visit /point2.
If the events occur in this order, I want the goal to be hit.
I have created a funnel for this, but the problem is that even if the user does not visit /point1, and visit /point2, the goal is hit! (destination is point2..)
I want the goal to be hit only when the user visit /point1 and /point2 in that order.How can I accomplish this?
Basically you can't (not via configuration, that is). Funnels only affect the visualisation, not goal completion.
You can either do a workaround in code - set a cookie on /point1, then fire an event on /point2 only when the cookie is set, and change your configuration to use an event based goal.
If you do not need to actual goal conversion, but just want to know how many users completed the steps in the correct order, you can create a segment of the "sequence" type (step1 page equals /point1 followed by step2 page equals /point2), which will limit the data displayed in the standard reports to sessions where users visited one point after the other.
I have a very basic site goal:
When someone gets to the '/my-account' page directly from the '/component/community/ajaxregister/ajaxregister' page, it needs to count it as a conversion (Registration).
I have a custom destination goal set up:
Destination = '/my-account'
Funnel: ON
Step 1 '/component/community/ajaxregister/ajaxregister' Requires? YES
The registration counts in my db do not match the goal count and the 'Reverse Goal Path' report shows that there are conversions being registered where the 'Goal Previous - Step 1' includes pages other than the registration page.
Any ideas on how to make this goal register only when one lands on my-account from the registration page?
The "required step" merely affects funnel visualization, not goal conversion. So by default there is no way not make this count only when people come from the registration page.
To solve this in code (and thus make the question on topic :-) ) you could
check the referring page on your goal conversion page, then
fire an event when the referrer is the registration pages, and
then switch to an event-based goal in the GA backend
That way you would not have a funnel (does not work with event based goals), but at least you'd have the "correct" number of conversions.
My situation in Google Analytics is as follows:
Everytime, user clicks a particular element on my website, it is recorded as an event (call it EVENT1).
The problem is that my GA goal is to have at least three of those elements clicked per visit.
We can say that the goal is fulfilled when a user causes 3 EVENT1 events per one visit.
Is it possible to define this?
I know it is possible to track number of pages/visit. But it is not what I am looking for, as there are many pages that does not include the element which can be clicked.
I guess another way would be to use javascript and send "CLICKED 3 TIMES" event to GA. But I would like to avoid this.
Create an advanced segment of the "sequence" type. Make every step the same event. Apply the segment to see the number of visitors included in that segment.
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)