I use custom google analytics variables to track the user ID of the visitor.
What I want is to see which pages a user visits after he signups to my website.
To achieve this I try to create a custom report about which pages a certain user ID visits.
I can't get this to work, on the custom report system I cannot select the correct filters & settings.
I hope anyone here has experience in doing this and can help me in the right direction.
Google Analytics won't show you this information at scale. It might work for 1-2 visitors, but Google Analytics purposefully restricts you from seeing individual visitor details.
Your best bet is to use a software product so you don't violate any privacy restrictions.
I would suggest looking into Universal Analytics. Much more centered around users - http://online-behavior.com/analytics/universal
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My problem is this: I'd like to differentiate Google Analytics between logged in WordPress users (people editing the site, editors) and people visiting the site (visitors).
I read through this article: https://css-tricks.com/learning-use-google-analytics-effectively-codepen/
It provides a basic explanation of how to add a dimension to GA. What I don't get is how to make line of code to add to my WordPress templates that will tell Google which users are logged in and which ones aren't.
If you can help, thank you!
The easiest way to do this is to populate the datalayer of your website with a boolean value (true or false) that determines whether someone is logged in or not. You can ask one of your devs to do this, but since you're using Wordpress there are quite some plugins that are able to do this (make sure you check the safety of these plugins).
After you've done that, you can now actually target these datalayer values in Google Tag Manager and create a custom dimension that you can in turn use for your filters and/or segments in Google Analytics. This guy explains it quite well on how to do this step by step.
I want to display Google Analytics report of a particular page on my website ?
Is there any code/script which will help me to achieve this?
Precisely, i want to show TOTAL NUMBER OF VISITS & NUMBER OF UNIQUE VISTORS of a specific page on my website. If there's any other alternative (of Google Analytics) to achieve this, please do suggest?
If you're already tracking for every page, you could set up a duplicate Google Analytics profile which excludes every page except the one you're interested in.
More details here.
I have a website where members can create their own page. Current I have a script that tracks how many views the member page was viewed. But I would like to display more information like unique visits, return visits etc.
Is there any analytic software that could let me do that?
I am guessing you want to display on each member page some analytics information.
You didn't specify what language you used to build the site.
Here's a PHP API class to query a Google Analytics account.
Also, check this and this for documentation about the API. You can retrieve analytics data / metrics in many ways that the default Analytics reports don't show.
Now you need to think of a way to differentiate between member pages in Analytics (use custom variables in your tracking code, maybe).
Hope this helps.
If you don't want to deal with getting in to the Google Analytics API, I suggest you check out some of the solutions on the Google Analytics Application Gallery. I for one work with embeddedanalytics. While we don't have it very well published on our site, we have done a number of CMS type implementations, allowing a single implementation to be used by many different users of the site. The differentiation could be based on page path or some specific custom variable. Visit us and contact us directly if you are interested.
(disclosure - I work with embeddedanalytics)
not sure how many people on Stack Overflow use google analytics however thought it might be worth asking the following.
We send out email campaigns as a business and using GA we can track when a user has clicked on a link in the email to come through to our site. We can therefore see how many people come to the site based on that individual email.
What we then want to be able to do is track the journey they take on the site before purchasing a product (or until they leave the site). How do we track this period between reaching the site and actually placing an order? If it is not possible to track actual individuals (I know it is a grey area within Google terms), is there a way of tracking all users that come in from that email as a group so for example we can say
'10 people from the email viewed x product page, then y product page then ordered but 5 people visited z product page and then left the site'.
Just to make things even more difficult if people are accessing the site from multiple IP addresses e.g. Phones, Internet Cafe etc is it possible?
If they do buy a product we can then track the status of their order from within our own CRM system.
I know Google as the 'Visitor Flow' feature but you do't seem to be able to isolate individuals or campaigns through it.
Thanks for any help!
I would create a different landing page for each of your campaigns. This is a good idea anyway (you want the landing page to be very relevant to your campaign message), and it makes it trivial to use Google Analytics' Visitor Flow feature to see the journey they took after leaving that page. This is an easy win for tracking at the campaign level.
I would like to track where users originally came from when they make a purchase on my site so I know which keywords are more profitable and which websites are best for advertising.
an example is a user is on my site with my google analytics tracking code which has details of where they came from, and then decides to upgrade. they leave my domain to go to my biller (2checkout) complete the purchase and return to my thank you page.
I have transaction code and analytics code on my thank you page and the transactions are showing up with the correct product/amounts in GA however there is no other data and in my reports the referring url is always my biller or a credit card companies authorisation page.
i can manually connect which customer is which by saving their referring data when they first come to the site and then matching it up after they make a sale, but I would like it to show up in my google adwords / analytics account where it is easier to manipulate the data and see trends.
if anyone can help me with this annoying issue I would be vbery greatful, but I fear I may end up living off reports I create and then matching them up with adwords manually :/
One thing you can do is have a click event trigger a custom variable. When the user clicks on whatever link that takes them to your biller, have the custom variable trigger with the information you want to carry over (like the current page URL, some campaign name, whatever). Specify the custom variable's scope as Session or Visit so that it get associated with the thank you page.
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTrackingCustomVariables.html
An alternative is to do campaign tracking:
http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55540
That is more or less the same principle as the first suggestion, but with using specified URL parameters. Depending on how your pages are actually coded, you may need to push a virtual page view with the campaign code(s):
http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55521