I have tried to track timing using this code in Google Analytics, and I have tried to find the report under "Behavior" --> "Site Speed" --> "User Timings"
but I can't find any result, can anyone help please ?
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After a lot of search I have found why my result is not shown, it is because the timing reports is a sampling reports which means that it needs a lot of data and hits to be able to calculate those reports, so it will take a lot of time until it be shown in your dashboard
On the google analytics website Behavior -> Site speed -> User Timings
Remember that it can take 24 hours before the data becomes available to you.
Enable sampling of 100% of the users who visit your site by changing the existing line to this one:
ga('create', 'UA-<your id here>', 'auto', {'siteSpeedSampleRate': 100});
The default is to sample 1% of the users.
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Does Google Analytics have enough information to answer the question of how much time have my top 100 users spent on my site? I don't need their user information, I don't care about ID or name which I know it doesn't even have. Just the identification of individual users by the cookie GA uses, and a report of how much time the top 100 loyal users spent on my site.
is such a thing possible at all with GA?
From your comment on Colwin's answer:
I don't need google if I have to track this for GA, I just hoped it already has this information such as "page visit duration" on a per-user, ongoing basis. If I had to feed Google that information myself, I can feed my own database and run analytics on it. Thanks anyway.
The Google analytics sessions is
a group of user interactions with your website that take place within a given time frame. For example a single session can contain multiple page views, events, social interactions, and ecommerce transactions.
Average session duration will be calculated as
total duration of all sessions / number of sessions
I don't think this is available from GA out of the box. But you can build something like this with Custom Dimensions available within GA
This will let you setup and send custom metrics dimensions for users that you can then create reports for.
Google Analytics doesn’t allow you to out in PII but random visitor id's should be fine. You can then compare against your own database outside of GA if needed too.
This will allow tracking the same visitor even without them being logged in to your site.
Sending the custom dimensions could possibly look like this.
ga('send', 'pageview', {
'dimension5': '1234567890'
});
You get 20 free custom dimension slots with GA and 200 with GA 360 -> More info here
I think this article has what you are looking for
https://webanalyticsguy.com/2018/01/18/google-analytics-capture-client-id-reporting-purposes/
It shows how to capture the client id which is a decent way to track a specific user. And goes further to explain how to associate that with a metric, in this case the author uses PageView.
You could change this to Average Session Duration or another metric that gives you a sense of time spent.
I guess that you are looking for something like this:
http://www.analytics-ninja.com/blog/2015/02/real-time-page-google-analytics.html
You can get the counts of the users on your site. You can get the seconds they spent on your website page.
I guess this answer will be helpful too: https://qr.ae/TWpkI0
I am facing a problem in GA analytic. My own analytics tells the different thing about no. of user made sign up while GA tell something else.
This is the goal designation codmedialert.com/accounts/register/complete/
The funneling is like
codmedialert.com/accounts/register/
codmedialert.com/accounts/register/complete/
codmedialert.com/accounts/activate/complete/
Is it something wrong with the goal created or analytics is telling me wrong.
You can get immediate results by going to realtime->conversions.
For the rest of reports it takes few hours, you just have to set the date range to "today"
Impossible to know anything else by viewing only the urls you posted, please debug by using the real time view
I'm using the Google Analytics Real Time API (https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/realtime/v3/) to track the active visitors per minute. For this, I use the metric rt:activeVisitors. Everything is working fine.
However, I want to track the page views per minute, but I did not find any overview of available metrics.
Is it possible to fetch the current page views?
You can find a list of the Dimensions and metrics available in the RealTime API here : Dimensions & Metrics Reference
It doesnt look like page views is something you can see in the RealTime API
As seen here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/realtime/dimsmets/pagetracking
You can use
rt:pageviews
the documentation is not really clear on the time frame. But my experiments seem to hint per minute.
The closest you can get is to use pagePath dimension and have activeVisitors as the basic metric (and the only one available, pretty much).
I don't think there is any real value in having live page view stats, you can find those in real time reports built-in standard GA reporting set anyway.
Say I have an article which has been viewed 100 times and has an Average Visit Duration of 01:00:00 hrs. Is there any way I can break down those statistics - and see how long each individual visit lasted for?
(I should state that I'm not looking to find out information about particular IP addresses or anything like that. I just want to get some idea of the 'mode visit' - the time most people spent on the page.)
Google Analytics doesn't provide enough detailed insights for invividual visitor details. If you want a more granular data try CardioLog Analytics
Yes, right, Google doesn't provide that. I tend to use sitemeter in conjuction with Google. Not sure if I recommend sitemeter though. It does give specifics about individual visitors, but they are very flaky. I don't think I've ever gotten a response from their so-called "tech support" or anything else from them.
The short answer is no, you can't. Google Analytics doesn't provide individual visitor details as it violates the GA Terms of Service.
However there are a couple ways to get at or close to this information:
1) Create an advanced segment - use the "Page" dimension and include the URI of the article on your site. Apply it and then look at the city or service provider report - it will show you all visits that viewed the article.
2) Keep a copy of the tracking data sent to Google and process it with on premises web analytics software that doesn't have the same ToS/privacy restrictions.
I took the code from the google-analytics website and put it right before the closing body tag like the instructions say to do and changed the xxxxx-x value from the profile page in the code.
I uploaded the new index file and refreshed the page a few times and have yet to get a single hit on it and I'm kind of curious as to why this might be? Any ideas?
You won't see analytics data in realtime. Google is working towards that, but there is a lag in showing traffic:
See this Google Help page:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Analytics/thread?tid=450ae99d8e40bfaf&hl=en
"Hi, Google Analytics has a current time lag for standard tracking of about 1-2 hours - so it's almost real-time (do you really want to check your analytics data every 10 minutes?). Switch to the current day in your calender and refer to the hourly reports - for example the Visitors/Visitor Trending/Visits/Graph by Hour report - to verify that."