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Perhaps I'm confused but what benefit do you get from using event tracking for an outbound click, and lastly what does ET have to do with real time? Thanks
By looking at time to scroll, time to the end of the blog post, and comparing that to the number of unique page views per visit, you can tell if your content is engaging.
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site:https://developers.goog...
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6618719/how-does-google-a...
[3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4484748/what-happens-with...
[4] http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/analytics/132Eet...
How can you see individual user sessions using Google Analytics? In other words, how can I see, for an individual visitor, their landing page, sequence of subsequent page views, and finally their exit page?
Landing pages: Go to Content > Site Content > Landing Pages
What you probably want is to create an advanced segment: Landing page = something. You can use regex or an exact match term.
Then go to audience > visitor flow, select the advanced segment you used and you can visually see how users navigated your site.
Remember: Keep in mind that a user can technically visit your site using browser tabs. That would give you a report where people went from page A to page B even if there isn't a link on page A going to page B.
Hence: Use GA to gain insight into trends.
Here are two of my favorite tricks. You can do this just after you set your account ID: var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'YOUR ANALYTICS ID GOES HERE']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); //******************* // Trick #1: Track page load time in Google Analytics // (note: only works for HTML5 browsers) //******************* _gaq.push(['_trackPageLoadTime']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement…
Place this stuff in the head tag rather than the bottom. It's async code and placing it closer to the top you can make sure you're setting up tracking the page as soon as possible.
Tracking user actions can be very useful: I use it on movieterminals.com to see everything that gets typed into each console. The theory being that (one day?) I'll use that to enhance the scripts to work how people expect.
Tracking an event per page 404 or 500 can also be very helpful. If you aren't already using something more robust to track errors you could even setup alerts to watch for those events and contact you.
Goals are good, although funnels are even better.
Finally: if you can afford it I've found that Clicky offers many great advantages over google analytics. More helpful default reports, a better realtime view, etc.
Here are two of my favorite tricks. You can do this just after you set your account ID: var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'YOUR ANALYTICS ID GOES HERE']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); //******************* // Trick #1: Track page load time in Google Analytics // (note: only works for HTML5 browsers) //******************* _gaq.push(['_trackPageLoadTime']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement…
However, Google Analytics only automatically samples the page load time for 1% of visitors.
To change this call
_gaq.push([‘_setSiteSpeedSampleRate’, 100]);
before tracking the pageview. This will sample 100% of users for the site load time.
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
Is anyone using GA to track mobile apps? The mobile SDKs shows a lot of potential until you start wondering about offline usage, GA being a website tracker first. I couldn't find any final answers but from what I can see it might be a sore point: the SDK docs dodge the topic [1] and I see complaints, ie events can be batched for later but get the timestamps of when they were uploaded, instead of when they happened [2…
[1]https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...