Currently we send events from the backend and the pageviews from our app to the GA. But we are not able to see the behavioral flow from the app pages to the events.
So, According to me if we send the events as the pageviews also then it will be automatically shown in the GA.
So how to send any event as pageview to GA. Is it recommended to do?
If there is some other way to do that please tell us.
You can track the event as virtual pageview. A virtual pageview is a hit which Google Analytics track as 'pageview', even when no new web page has actually been loaded into a web browser.
Instead of the event code you can use the following code (for example when the user clicks on a button):
ga('send', 'pageview', '*name of your virtual page*');
It is an improper use of pageview (I refer to tracking all events as if they were page views) but everything is relative to what you actually need to trace and how you want to see it in the reports.
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http://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&tid=UA-XXXXXXX-1&cid=1060320920.1612316285&t=event&ec=transaction&ea=call&el=202102081703_0507-1474-0311&ni=TRUE&ti=offline&ta=&tr=100&tt=0&ts=0&pa =callOrder&pr1id=&pr1nm=product_name&pr1qt=1&pr1pr=100&pr1ca=machine
I am trying to send the above URL to Google Analytics using apps scipt.
When I enter it directly into the URL address bar, an event is sent.
However, if you refer to the existing data (POST method) and send it to apps scipt, the event is not caught in Analytics.
Try to see if you have Exclude spam and bot option checked in View settings. That could be the cause.
Our site enables users to send money to us via a bank transfer. They 'initiate' the transfer and get a reference code. Then they log in to their bank account and send the money using the reference code.
We track when a user promises to send the money but I'm not sure how to track when that money arrives. They won't be logged into the site when it happens which makes it complicated. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks in advance!
It is possible to track events on behalf of a recent user, but it requires coding on server side. You need to use the Google Analytics Measurement Protocol
to create this event, when you are notified about a successful transfer. You can send all relevant information to Google Analytics, like event category, action, or event value (e.g. transfer amount), or even track these as ecommerce transactions.
You can check the parameter reference to learn about the required and optional parameters to be sent with your hit. You can also experiment with such custom built hits with the Hit Builder tool.
If you would like this event to be connected to your existing user, then you'll also need to store your visitor's client ID during their visit, and later reuse this client ID in your backend-initiated Analytics hit.
Here is an example for an event hit for a recently stored ClientId, with given event attributes, including value.
There a few things to be considered in such scenarios, or at least to be aware of. Such events will generate additional hits in your Analytics property, and also initiate sessions, which can alter your various Analytics metrics, if their volume is comparable to your overall traffic.
I am developing a SPA webapp through which I add events to my users google calendar They have given permission for. However this is my first time using Google calendar API, and was unclear about how to retrieve my users existing events , or if they add new events or delete them. IS there an option to set a webhook within google calendar thus when the user makes any changes to the calendar I can receive the change. My current approach was to make multiple get requests but that seems very inefficient. How can I keep my app calendar in sync with all user created events.
You can set up a push notification to be alerted any time anything changes on one of your calendars. I looked into it before a little, if memory serves it doesn't alert you to a lot of particularly useful information (I don't believe it tells you exactly what changed and how). Check out the docs here: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v3/push
What I ended up doing was setting up a cronjob and getting all of my calendars' events using the synctoken, which returns only the events that have changed since the last time I polled the API for events. https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v3/sync
If you are using the SyncToken in your request for data, all you get back is the events that have changed. There is an eventID in the Google records that you can use to connect the change to your event data.
I am trying to place a button that will be inside email and I want to track button views and clicks (Google Analytics events). Can you tell me if that is possible and how to do that?
You can't technically track a button click from an email, but what you can do is control where the button links to.
If you set the button's URL to point to your servers, you can intercept the link, send a hit to Google Analytics using the Measurement Protocol, and then redirect the user to where the button was originally pointing.
Alternatively, you could append custom campaign parameters to the end of the URL (utm_medium, utm_source, etc.). This would allow you to know what source the hit came from. Here's some information on custom campaigns:https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033863?hl=en
This is able to track button views by using Measurement protocol, and using UTM tagging to track sessions come from this button (but not actual clicks).
I'm building an app with some 'mail tracking' feature and want to notify google analytics about a click in a link from ruby.
I've already changed all external links from email to go to my server to be redirected, so I know what and when the user clicked.
I want to send this click just knowing the 'UA-XXXXX' and the clicked url.
Is there a way? Or the best solution is to render a html page and with JS send the click event?
UPDATE: Ok, I've found gabba but don't know how to send an 'click' event.
Generally its better to use the JS api, since it has access to all of the other data that analytics tracks, like the visitor browser/os/geoip and can tie all that to a 'visit'.
If you are embedding links in emails, you might consider using the source/medium/campaign flags in the links.
http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1033867
So technically its not tracking the 'clicks' as an event, more like tracking the fact that the user came to your site from that particular email. You could use a separate campaign label if you wanted the individual click granularity. (If, for example you had the same url in the email more than once and you wanted to know whether they clicked the first or second one in the email)