Im working on setting up event tracking on a website, the user visits index.php, where he completes a quizz built with javascript, after answering each question i track the event with something like :
_gaq.push(['eventTracker._trackEvent', "myCategory", question_number.toString()]);
After the user completes the quizz he's redirected to another page : result.php where i track the landing event with :
_gaq.push(['eventTracker._trackEvent', 'myResult', myScore.toString()]);
The problem is that on analytics i can see the events with category = "myCategory" but not events with category "myResult".
Here is the code (this part is present in both index.php and result.php):
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-2']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); //an account for tracking page views
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>
<script>
//the account we attach events to
_gaq.push(['eventTracker._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-3']);
//..... racking code as posted before
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I'm working on an E-commerce portal and tracking my portal using Google Analytics, could see stats like,
Page Views
Unique Page Views
Location etc
Products could be added to Shopping Cart / Basket from any of the following pages,
Shopping Template
Quick Order form
Upload Order file
Normal Product Catalog page (Product listing page)
I would like to track from which Page(s) mentioned above, product gets added to the Shopping Cart and eventually Order gets placed, How can I achieve this?
Analytics script
<script type="text/javascript">
/* Google Analytics */
var googleAnalyticsTrackingId = 'UA-xxxxx-x';
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', googleAnalyticsTrackingId]);
var dimensionValue = '1234';
_gaq.push('set', 'dimension2', dimensionValue);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>
I have used _trackEvent for several links. But in google analytics it shows as 0 events and no tracking data are displayed.
Below is the code I used. Do I have to wait 24 hours to view the tracking data? or anything wrong with this?
<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/example/"
onClick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Links', 'Bags', 'Mainlinkbags']);"
target="_parent">
tracking code
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxx-x']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async =true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s)
();
Sometimes it is good practice to use "onmousedown" event instead of "onclick" because "onmousedown" is fired sooner, so GA script has more time to execute event tracking (it's only a few milliseconds difference, but can help). Try it.
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/event_onmousedown.asp
I have been running this code for some time now on all pages. This custom variable has never shown up.
Sorry to ask this again, I don't see another post that solves my case. This has to be the simplest case in the world, this is the same code with only the UA changed:
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-12345678-1']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
_gaq.push(['_setCustomVar', 1, 'User', 'jc', 3]);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>
I did not modify the (function()...) .. Do you see the problem? I'm using slot 1 with the page level (3) scope. The same code appears on each page for a given user.
_setCustomVar does not trigger a request to GA. _trackPageview does. You have to move the _setCustomVar above the _trackPageview.
I'm trying to implement google analytics on a page but it refuses to track anything.
the public domain is on www.publicdomain.com, when entering the page its redirected to: www.publicdomain.com/sub1/sub2/index.php
this website is hosted on another domain:
www.privatedomain.com/publicdomain/sub1/sub2/index.php
This is the GA code I'm using inside the body tag of the index.php file:
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-9999999-9']);
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'publicdomain.com']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>
Any ideas of what could be wrong?
Here are some things to check:
Are you using the correct UA number? (i.e. not 999999-99)
Are the GA cookies being created? (__utm[abcz])
Is the __utm.gif request being sent back to Google? If not, is your browser blocking it? (i.e. is Do Not Track enabled?)
I am trying to log the username of users who are using my system. Unfortunately, I couldn't track by using custom variables. I could track the page visit, but custom variable tracking is not working. Could you please help me? Thanks.
<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx-1']);
_gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'none']);
_gaq.push(['_setCustomVar',1,'UserName','JohnPaul',2]);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>
The code is correct and it does track the users now. I just used the similar codes as above and it works now. But I needed to wait 2 days to track the custom variables and it appears in my reports now.
For more than one user, you'll have to use PHP to output user names.
_gaq.push(['_setCustomVar', 1, 'UserName', '<?php get_usernames(); ?>',2]);
***Substitute "get_usernames" with the function for your site that retrieves the usernames.