Is it possible to use data from Google Analytics when someone visits my web page?
I would like to get information about the visitor, eg:
location
how many times he visited the page
from where he comes
time spent on website
etc
And depending on those informations display proper content. Or even add them (silently) to the contact form.
Is it possible to use the data collected by Google Analytics or should I create my own mechanism based on cookies? Maybe any other solution?
This isn't possible. Universal Analytics uses a cookie with an ID for the user and handles the rest on the server, so there's no data available to you. However, all of the info that Google is tracking is accessible to you.
location you can get via the users IP
visits you can get by setting a cookie on each user and tracking sessions
referrer should be in the request headers
time spent can be tracked the same way that ga does, but keeping track of the time everytime the user creates another hit
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I have requirement where I need to store users ip, device information, user_agent, etc. information for on url on my site. How do I go about this?
This data will be used later as stats (which device hitting more, which locations etc.)
I can see that Google analytics helps in tracking for entire site.
How do I enable it to track only for one specific url on my site and track all information mentioned above?
If you add your tracking code only on the one web page you wish to track, then you should be able to accomplish your goal. Just to clarify, if you have two web pages, trackme.html and donottrackme.html, you would place the Google Analytics tracking code only on trackme.html. IP, device information, user agent, etc. should be visible within your dashboard.
I am using universal analytics on my website via Google Tag Manager with data layer e-commerce tracking enabled.
The referral addresses are appearing to be coming from the payment providers (e.g. secure.arcot5.com)
I have included all my URLS in to the autolinker and after some testing the _ga cookie value appears to be consistent all the way through the booking process but it appears differently on the page after the secure payment takes place.
This suggests the session is being treated as a new one, hence the referral address issue I am having.
I have been trying to set a cookie on the entry page which equals the _ga cookie value but currently I am unable to retreive it on the confirmation page.
Has anyone got any ideas for a possible solution?
You will most definitely save my life!
Dan
Have you read this article? There could be a couple of pointers in there however I'm not sure what you have and haven't tried
Accurately reporting referrer from payments made with PayPal in Google Analytics
I am trying to find out how active are the users of my web page after registration, based on what was the source/landing page of their first visit. I would rather not try to track users myself - I am already employing Google Analytics on my web page and I know it uses the __utma cookie to tell one user from another. I can see summarized landing pages/sources in my Analytics reports but would need to have this data per specific user in the time of their sign up.
Essentially, when the user signs up with my web page I would like to retrieve their landing page and source from Google Analytics and store it in my application's database along with user's name, password, activity etc. This way I could check later, for example whether users who came from Google were more prone to buying premium service that those who came from Facebook etc.
I checked the Google Analytics API reference but it doesn't seem to provide getters for this specific data. I've been looking in up in Google and in Stack Overflow for a while.
This seems like a pretty useful functionality, which many websites should need. What am I missing? Maybe I should seek for a solution that doesn't involve GA? Or switch to a different analytics? Or track user's landing pages with cookies myself?
On the site that I'm developing we need to track the last visited page for each user (users login to the site). What's the best way to do this? We are already using a custom profile so adding a new field is easy. The site will not have a lot of traffic so updating this field wont be an issue, i think. Are there better ideas? Does sitecore already offers something that we can possible use?
OMS has a "Top Exit Pages" report by default... but that is tracked across sessions, not users.
A good IIS log parser should also be able to give you this information... again, that would be by session (or IP) and not logged in user.
If you really want to get every exit page AND filter by logged in user... what I would do is add a new pipeline processor to httpRequestBegin, and place it after the ItemResolver. Then save the Item.Paths.Path. I would advise against writing this data to the user Profile if you are using the default ASP.NET Profile handler and you have a decent amount of traffic, because it is highly inefficient. Roll your own simple storage solution here, or just dump the data to a log.
My first question would be: Why do you need only the last visited page of the user? What are you trying to determine?
In a lot of cases, you are probably starting down an analytics route, or perhaps even trying to drive some marketing.
If the analytics is what you are going for, you can probably just pop an event out to your google analytics account with the current username as an event variable to allow you to look at analytics by user and by page. Alternatively, you could use the Sitecore OMS/DMS features for tracking all that data and looking at the analytics there.
If you are looking at driving marketing, you probably want to use OMS/DMS, especially if you want to start getting into personalization or engagement plans. OMS/DMS will track user activity, and all the pages they visit, though not by user account. With some customizations, you can probably add that data in, but it will depend on what you are trying to use the information for. The username may not be what is important to you.
If, however, you just want to know what page to send the user back to after logging them in, it would be better to just store that in session or pass as a post parameter if session is not a viable option for you.
I have an asp.net web app that has Session state stored in sql server. I need to keep track of the time spent by a user on each page. How can i do that using cookies?
Couldn't you use a cookie to store the time when the user navigated to the page and then when they navigate to another page calculate the time spent on the previous page, enter that into the database or something and then repeat the process?
If you can get away with tracking time for all users collectively rather than individual users, I would install Google Analytics.
http://www.google.com/analytics/
Tracking user time across a site isn't ideally done in the cookies, which are more for providng things back to the user.
That said, you'd need to store the intermediate data in the cookie if you're going to store the true 'time per page' per user rather than faking it at the server by counting the gap between page requests per session. You could do this by setting the load time at the page load, then comparing that to the current time in the onUnload event hander. Save that to the cookie and it should be available to the server in the request body of the next page it sends.