I need to track clicks to a webpage that already has Webtrends codes embedded. The thing is that I also need to track clicks to that page using Google Analytics.
It would have been easy if I can just embed Google Analytics's code on to the landing webpage but my client does not allow us to modify their webpage.
My question now is that, is it possible to track clicks on both Webtrends and Google Analytics by placing two tracking parameters (or syntax; query) onto one single URL?
For example:
http://example.com/adredirect.php?WT.mc_id=XXXXXXX?utm_source=XXX&utm_medium=XXX&utm_campaign=XXX
Within the "adredirect.php" page, I then can embed our GA code inside, with a redirect code to the correct landing page. I know for sure that by clicking the link above it will lead the browser to my desired page. What I don't know is that will the two parameters be actually captured correctly by both GA and Webtrends?
Are there other ways to achieve similar tasks?
Thanks to all that have time to help.
Regards!
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I'm a consumer data analyst who is not very familiar to coding other than occasional encounters with HTML and Python, and I'm just starting with the coding part of Web Analytics. In particular, I need to learn about checking websites I don't own (therefore I don't have access to their Analytics accounts) for tracking info, but it has been phenomenally hard to find information on which tracking function each component of code stand for, or to what extent it is visible from the page source.
For a project, here is a page I'm trying to check for Google Analytics/Tag Manager/alternative analytics setup, and see what is exactly being tracked on it. Other than the source code, I checked it with Ghostery, which gave me this Tag Manager code page. Is it possible to check tracking info from these two (events, pageviews, URI and how many custom dimensions there is, specifically), and which part of the code includes that info (particularly URI and dimension info - the first two, I have more idea about)?
This is a page I'm also looking into. I can see that this one has Google Analytics/Tag manager, but again, I can't make sure of what is being tracked, and whether the Analytics/Tag Manager setup is looking -potentially- problematic in any way. Here is the Tag Manager page for this one that I obtained through Ghostery.
Any help would be much appreciated...
Looks like what you are looking for is Google Tag Assistant extension for google chrome: https://get.google.com/tagassistant/
you can download it from here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tag-assistant-by-google/kejbdjndbnbjgmefkgdddjlbokphdefk?hl=en
When you install it it will appear as icon on any page you visit and it will show you all GA implementations on a page:
You can select tracking ID you are interested in and it will tell you how many Page Views/events were fired for that particular tracking ID only:
Then you can select individual tracking event/page view and see all data that are being sent with that tracking request. Just Click on URLs and click the icon to put the data in table:
Here "cd" stands for Custom Dimension, so here you can clearly see 2 custom dimensions that are being tracked:
Hope this helps, good luck!
I will start by saying that I have fair experience in HTML, but please keep the technical terms to a bare minimum. Pretend you're explaining it to a child. :-)
I used Wix.com to make my site (Wix is a place to easily design websites and has little HTML capabilities, since it's all based on being able to easily design a site with no HTML knowledge). You can add a Google Analytics tracking code, so i can see the number of clicks on the site, but that's about all. Apparently you can't change the code to be able to see button clicks on the site etc. (or maybe you can?...)
This is what I need above anything else:
On the site are a few "sign up now" buttons. When someone clicks it, they go to a signup page on an external site. I need to be able to track who clicks these buttons and when.
Ideally it's all tracked within google but apparently it doesn't work on wix.
Priorities:
Somehow it works with Google Analytics on Wix. It would have to be if somehow I can track it with Analytics without putting a code on the site itself. Don't know if or how that would work.
If not Google, is there a simple 3rd party Analytics site that could track the number of clicks on these buttons to external pages? It would be best if I can get the IP addresses of the clickers as well.
this is fairly easy, try customerlabs.co/google-analytics-event-tracking which can directly help you to send data about the users when they click event tracking.
eg:
Wix supports 3 types of goal tracking for your site: Destination, Duration and Pages/Screens per session. Currently, Wix doesn't support an Event tracking goal.
I'm trying to track a series of emails and where users are clicking. I really only have google analytics to work with. I'm attempting to use google analytics to tag my links but all I'm getting is the campaign, all the other tags are coming up (not set).
example of the links I am using:
http://www.example.com/en/secured/rewards?entity_id=<%~user%>&pw=<%~pw%>&utm_source=confirmEmail1&utm_medium=email&utm_content=button1&utm_campaign=ssconfirmEmail1
This part of the link HAS to be there.
http://www.example.com/en/secured/rewards?entity_id=<%~user%>&pw=<%~pw%>
I believe something with the entity_id and pw tags are creating a conflict with google's tags. Currently I'm testing weather doing this to the link will work or not.
http://www.example.com/en/secured/rewards?utm_source=confirmEmail1&utm_medium=email&utm_content=button1&utm_campaign=ssconfirmEmail1&entity_id=<%~user%>&pw=<%~pw%>
My question is, first: Does anyone know a reason why this would be happening?
second (forget google analytics and do something custom): I know I could track the link by creating a redirect through a page and then having it redirect to the correct url, but I'm too new at this to know if I can carry the entity_id and pw through the redirect. If so, how?
Thanks!
Since the link was picking up everything but the content, I just eliminated that and changed the source to what I was using in the content. It's working now
http://www.example.com/en/secured/rewards?entity_id=<%~user%>&pw=<%~pw%>&utm_source=button1&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ssconfirmEmail1
When a user clicks on an outgoing text link in my wordpress blog, I can see it in the real time stats and in the daily stats that it was clicked and how many times it was clicked. However, I have ads on the site as well, that are just outgoing links from an image, and these are not captured by Google Analytics.
I have searched and see no reason there should be a difference.
You probably have some code to track outbound link clicks. You haven't shared it, but I'm guessing you do and that's the one tracking the image clicks.
That code will probably not work on ads because the ads exist inside an iframe that can't be inspected by the code you have on the page.
Maybe the ad network provides an API you can use, to identify events like clicks on the Ads. Otherwise you're stuck and there's simply no way to detect clicks inside that iframe.
Using Google Analytics, I am tracking clicks on a link (The link is of the same website).
Is it necessary to apply some delay before redirection after tracking the click using trackPageViews?
I see people suggest delay on outbound link but I guess, the same rationale applies to the link that takes users to the same website.
The issue is really whether or not the tracking pixel request (from _trackPageview) has completed before you leave the current page.
So, yes -- if the link is opening up in the existing window, you'll want to add a delay on following the link, regardless of staying on the site or not.
BTW, while using _trackPageview for tracking clicks will work, it also inflates the actual page view count for your site -- you might want to use event tracking (with _trackEvent) instead. See Event Tracking Guide