I have 10 goals set up in Google analytics. They all share the same completion URL, but all have different funnels / steps before completion.
Today I know that I have one goal completion, but looking at the report there is 10 reported. So completions are counted for all my goals.
Has anyone experienced the same and figured out a solution?
The funnel steps apply only fo the funnel report. The Goal Completions are based only on the Goal Url. Hence if you have the same Goal Url for all of them you will have 10 Goal Completions no matter what are the steps you have setup for each one of them.
Isn't it a possibility to use a different completion url for all of them?
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I have two goals in Google Analytics. Each use a custom template and are type destination. Each have a required funnel. One has a longer funnel.
Goal 1
Destination
http://www.example.com/form/thank-you.html
Step 1
http://www.example.com/form/
Goal 2
Destination
http://www.example.com/form/thank-you.html
Step 1
http://www.example.com/
Step 2
http://www.example.com/form/
Each report the identical completions. However, in the Funnel Visualization, the longer funnel shows fewer, as expected completions. The completion numbers in both funnels are completely different than in the Overview.
Why is this? I know that the completions as listed in the Funnel Visualization is accurate. Why can't this data, a single number, be surface to a Dashboard Widget?
As Eike have mentioned this is caused by the fact that Goal Steps and Required first step apply only to the funnel visualization. The Goal Completion metric you find everywhere else is based solely on the number of sessions that reached your destination configured on the goal. If the destination is the same the completion will be the same for both your goals.
There's also this article I recommend that compares Goal Funnels to Goal Flow. Though not exactly what you are asking it does a good job explaining some of the details on how Funnels work.
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2976313?hl=en
I am using GA API for java to access data from GA. I need to fetch values from funnel visualization for example: "Cart" value. If any one knows regarding the same then I need your help..
Thanks,
Vipin Dhiman
The funnel visualization is just constructed out of unique pageviews to a URL. So if you know the steps in the process, you can just make the calls to GA and then do the calculations yourself at each step. Then if you need something like exit pages, or something like that, you can make another call with the correct dimension, like ga:nextPagePath to see where people are going at each step.
I sell a PDF that is delivered on the same page that is being used to count conversions in Google Analytics. Will GA count multiple visits to this page over a couple of days? For example, person downloads PDF, a few days later they revisit the page and download the pdf again. Their has only been one conversion but multiple visits.
Thank you
It's better if you post your code here. Without that I cannot tell for sure.
Probably yes, GA will count a conversion each time your customer visit the download page, because you probably define it as your goal for conversions, correct? I think the easiest way to avoid this is to define another page as your goal or provide the subsequent downloads in other place.
Anyway, is possible to configure GA or your page to prevent this behavior, but is necessary to know more about your page...
I am attempting to create goal funnels in GA for dynamic asp.net based pages. The funnel currently looks as follows:
/
/market_home.aspx
/Category.aspx
/product.aspx
/Cart.aspx
/Checkout.aspx
/OrderReview.aspx
/Confirmation.aspx
The market_home, Category and product pages are dynamic and will contain various parameters ie:
/market_home.aspx?id=1
/Category.aspx?id=1
/product.aspx?id=1
I am using regular expression as my match setting (have tried head match as well). I still get two of my market home pages not being captured. It is only 2 out of 18.
I can't seem to figure out why it catches some, but not all of the traffic.
I also am not capturing incoming/outgoing traffic that is not at the start of the funnel. In other words, those visitors being captured in the funnel appear to complete the entire thing from start to finish. There are no visitors dropping out in the middle anywhere, which I can't believe.
The beginning of the URL will not change.
Any ideas what could be wrong?
I've got the same problem, i even asked about it couple days ago: Using regexp in Google Analytics Goal Funnel steps
I beleive the thing is that RegExp don't work properly in funnel steps. My solution for this is generating the same virtual pageview in every dynamically generated page and use it in the funnel. Goog practice is to create a separate profile for it and filter out those virtuals in the main to avoid data distortion.
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)