Questions tagged [tracking]
Action to get data from a web site visitors in order to generate statistics.
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One or two streams for subdomain in GAnalytics via Tag Manager?
I have a catalog, say at https://example.com
Then I have a blog, say at https://subdomain.example.com
The catalog was built time ago and the blog is new.
I have the Google Tag Manager at both sites. ...
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Why are all my conversions in GA4 marked as "direct"?
I run a small webapp. The app is hosted on app.mydomain.com and my 'main' website is just on mydomain.com. On my main website I installed Google Tag Manager and installed/linked a GA4 property. On the ...
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Tracking links going to 404 pages
I have a price comparison website with quite a few tracking links like this:
<a href="/go.php?id=6000579" class="fh-price-go-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ...
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Set up cross-domain measurement for multiple domains IN GA4
I am following the devguide per google on how to setup cross domain tracking.
I am good with the code, however not clear if one have to track multiple cross domains, will the linker code be same on ...
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Tracking a button that opens a third-party website
I have a dental website for getting appointments. The CTA 'Book an appointment' opens a partner website and the user can see my locations and book an appointment.
Now, to measure Google ads ...
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Get Google Tags API event data via code (not via dashboard)
I am building an e-commerce website where we display hundreds of products on a main page. I need to show to vendors total view count (impressions) for each product.
I can store each impression by ...
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Google Ads/ Analytics is adding Domain to the end of every URL
We are running Google Ads campaigns. Our destination URLs are not set up with any tracking parameters on them.
However, in Google Analytics, all of our PPC landing pages have ?https://www.example.com/=...
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Can I track no. of purchases & profit for each session source in GA4
I want to know the profit and no. of purchases in my store that came from specific sources like Instagram & Snapchat in GA4, I did try to make a custom report from Explore in GA4 but it doesn't ...
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(not set) for source/medium Google Analytics
Can someone khnow why it is displayed for me source/medium as not set?
thank you.
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Track traffic & purchases came from instagram shop
Is there a way to track visitors and purchases for my woocommerce store that came from my instagram shop?
I know I Must Use UTM Links and see results in GA for Specific link, but I have hundreds of ...
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Capture Source (From Google Ads) In the Form
I have a client who wants to know (based on an actual form submission) when a client came from a Google Ad conversion. I have everything wired up properly (GA4 > Google Tags > Google Ads) so ...
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Use Google Tag Manager to detect if a specific brand is being purchased by triggering when it is included in the order
I'm setting up Google Tag Manager on e-commerce store where is a lot of brands.
I need to make trigger on Floodlight script when is specific products in purchase.
So I made trigger where is detected ...
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Should I avoid tracking parameters completely for optimal SEO?
I have been using URL parameters for years to track user behavior more accurately on my and my clients' websites, but recently a number of those small sites I'm trying to rank on Google are really ...
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Can Sprinklr track Social Media > Organic Search > Website? [closed]
Just wanted to ask, anyone can generally give an idea how tools like Sprinklr works to track omnichannel user? By using cookies to set unique visitor id? (like AA)
E.g. Case 1: User login to FB > ...
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Google Analytics reporting all traffic as organic
My website is built using Angular. The frontend pages are built using Angular SSR (server-side rendering). My checkout pages are using Angular, but not SSR. The issue is that once a user lands on an ...
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How to make sure my google ads conversions are working?
I'm pretty new in the Google Ads world and I was, for the first time, setting up conversion links to know the different type of actions my users do.
I created conversions in the Google Ads backoffice, ...
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Limiting what affiliate's Google Tag Manager can inject into my site
I am managing a website where we sell products. We have an affiliate program.
I want to facilitate the affiliates the tracking for them to optimize the campaigns.
Currently we display a different ...
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Can I use GA to monitor action per user?
I have a form for submit registering a service. I want to track how many times user visit site before submitting this form
and can view this information per user.
I havent much experience with Google ...
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The click URL variable in Google Tag Manager is always returning a Facebook URL rather than the actual clicked URL
Built-In {{Click Url}} Variable in GTM is returning www.facebook.com/tr and not the href or action value of the click. What could be going wrong?
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Can you track an event in Google Analytics when the phone call is made, as opposed to just when the user clicks on the number?
Here is how the flow on the website works:
There is a button called "show phone number"
Click the button and the phone number reveals "0850 XXX XXX"
Click the number and if you ...
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Do websites have the choice to block 3rd party trackers? [closed]
I just got the Privacy Badger Chrome extension and have noticed that when I visit some webpages, I have more trackers tracking me than other websites.
For example, when using the New York Times, I ...
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Distinguish same page internal links traffic in Google Analytics
On my website, some pages have the same link to another page, in different places. For example, one is a button, another one is an anchor link.
I'd like to understand which ones draw more traffic.
I ...
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How to measure the number of direct clicks to a file in Google Analytics?
Say I have a file in my website: https://example.com/sample.pdf
Is there a way to track how many people clicking on the link, similarly how regular links are tracked? The article Additional kinds of ...
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Google tags assistant reports old ads conversion tracking and multiple google Analytics tags
I have a lot of tags displayed. Which are good and which are not?
My website is composed in 2 parts : WordPress + Learnybox (funnel construction) and I'm using tag assistant plugin to see if my ...
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Google Analytics/Tag Master - Tracking unique pageviews with events on a given page
I have set up GA & GTM to do the following:
Track when an outgoing link is clicked.
Track when an outgoing email address is clicked (mailto:)
Google Analytics records this as 2 separate events, ...
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Can I add utm tracking parameters to affiliate clicks via a cloaked link?
I own an affiliate blog through which I started earning commissions in the last couple of months.
With that said, I'm having a hard time tracking my converting articles. Whenever i get a commission ...
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Adding Facebook Pixel Event results in error
I'm trying to create a Facebook Pixel Event, however I get an error on my site, every time I try to add it. The error states: "Request could not be processed: We could not process your request. ...
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Best way to track link clicks for multiple URLs in one place? [closed]
I'm creating an ecatalog with hundreds of products. Each one has a link back to it's product page on our site. What would be the best way to track them?
My main goal is to just find how many people in ...
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Track link clicks to external website sent via SMS
I have a website created in Webflow. My company (let's call it myco.example) sends out texts to customers with a link to our client's scheduling page on their website. We created a shorter vanity URL ...
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Is Google Analytics considered a tracker that violates user privacy?
I like having Analytics on my site for all the great stats it provides, but I am aware that my customers don't necessarily want to be tracked.
But my understanding is that GA isn't a "tracker&...
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How to track from which area of the website does the users enter a specific page?
I would like to see from which area of my web site does the users enter a specific page.
For instance, I have this category page: /Nike-Shoes. There are many places that the users can enter to this ...
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Could these URL tracking parameters be causing data discrepency between Facebook Ads and Google Analytics?
Problem:
We're seeing a lot of traffic from (direct) / (none) in GA whenever a Facebook Ads campaign is launched — it's always the top source/medium pair.
In second place, there's some fb / ...
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Google Analytics incorrectly showing data from two sites
I have two websites that I've split up into two properties in Google Analytics with separate tracking codes. But for some reason when I view the raw data for Site A, it's showing me data from both.
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Can Google Analytics count visitors from social media through our site to an affiliate link?
Is there are any way to track how many visitors come from a social media channel like Facebook to a landing page and from here to an external page (although an affiliate)?
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What is "fourth-party" in advertisement?
While I understand third-party cookies, I am not sure to understand what exactly "fourth-party" means in sentences such as:
Third and fourth party ad tracking is allowed on [website] ...
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Google Analytics Content Group, do I use gtag set or gtag config?
I am trying to separate my site pages using "content group" in google analytics.
So that I track how different page titles perform.
I don't know which of these two is the right way to modify html ...
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How can we setup correct tracking in Google Analytics for Netlify?
Currently, I have added the GA Tag in our Tag Manager in our Netlify website and it is recording/firing the first page. But as I am visiting the other pages, the GA real time tracking still remains on ...
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How is it possible that Google Analytics is showing a high bounce rate (50%) on a cart and checkout page?
The cart and checkout pages are not landing pages so it isn't possible for that to be the first page in their session. The exit rate is way too low (approximately 15%) which signals to me that the ...
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Does the position of Google Analytics snippet within the document head (before or after scripts and css) affect tracking data?
The MonsterInsights plugin puts the Google Analytics tracking code before other java scripts and stylesheets. I wanted to reduce by one more the number of plugins that I’m using so I put the Google ...
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See Google Analytics tracking stats from short cross domain redirect URL used in print media
I am using a different domain for some ads to track how many people access the main site through this domain.
How can I see this in Google Analytics?
I have DOMAIN A (on the ad) redirecting to ...
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What is the difference between two URL input boxes in Facebook Ad Manager?
I'm unable to understand these two boxes for tracking links:
I understand that the first one is the link used in the ad. If so, then what is the second one is for?
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Does userId Need to Be Set In Every Google Analytics Session?
When using user-id feature in Google Analytics, does the userId need to be set in every session in order to tie sessions to the same user?
I see that there is a session unification option that ...
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Is it possible to track conversions if user converts on a different page than the ad?
In google adwords, my client's conversion goal is contact form submission.
They're running ads on different pages of the website.
Is it possible to track the conversion if the site user takes a path ...
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What is the `#` symbol in a link with Google Analytics campaign tracking parameters?
This is the link when I generate the tracking tail with Campaign URL Builder today:
http://example.com#utm_source=Campaign%20Source&utm_medium=Campaign%20Medium&utm_campaign=Campaign%20Name
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Can Google Analytics track video with tracking parameters?
If I link my Google Analytics ID to my YouTube channel, would individual videos be able to tracked via parameters? For example, if one clicks on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMPzDiraNnA&...
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Track user from adwords in my own community
I want to track adwords users, who register to my website.
I want to know which ad was clicked and led to a registration and connect this information to the user.
I could f.e. modify the final URL ...
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Can you use utm_content without other utm parameters?
tl;dr If you have a URL with a utm_content parameter, but no other UTM parameters, is it possible to track that in Google Analytics?
I was trying to help somebody run a very simple Facebook Ads ...
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How to measure purchases on a site when traffic is coming from a particular source?
We have a website which sells products. Soon we are launching some new featured products and have created a microsite on a subdomain to advertise these products and to push customers to the main site ...
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Do I have to add Google Analytics events if I have Javacsript buttons on a page or can Analytics track time on page without them by itself?
On one of my pages I have Javascript code, so when the user clicks buttons the page responds without going to an other page or doing an Ajax call.
So the user can be on the page for a while pushing ...
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Canpaigns tracking [closed]
Please, can someone explain me how is the best approach (flow) to track marketing campaigns originated from different sources?
For instance, we create one landing page for each campaign and want to ...
