March 4 we switch to Google's Universal Analytics

[alicemirror]

Hi to all.
Sorry to bore you but I have checked my analytics account and I have not found nothing to move in some way to universal analytics. My actual version - as for as I see -, that I already use for my sites is almost complete, with real time accesses, a lot of audience type subdivisions, the acquisition information, pages, places, referrals and so on. Lot of graphics. Frankly I can’t imagine what can be more in the universal version. Some idea on how I can find it ?

Thanks in advance. Enrico

[madworm]

Google now tells me there is a “tracking code mismatch” for “tindie.com”.

I probably have messed up the setup process somewhere.

[emilepetrone]

@madworm sounds like that is the wrong code from this tutorial:

Understanding Google Analytics Notifications and Diagnostic Messages

[madworm]

The tracking java-code sometimes shows two tracking codes, one for user tracking (mine, correct), one for site tracking (something else).

If I browse on “my” pages, both codes show up. This is not limited to one URL, so I’m not quite sure which to register with google for the tracking.

  _gaq.push(
    ['b._setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXX'], <--- my tracking code
    ['b._trackPageview']
  );

[…]

  ga('create', 'UA-YYYYYYY',  <--- something else

[ubldit]

We are trying to setup ecommerce conversion tracking. It seems to do this we need to know the final checkout page filename… I.e. thankyou.html. Can you provide us with this?

David

[ambercunningham]

Hey David. The URL is tindie.com/checkout/success/ (there is no .html associated with the url).

We will have a feature coming soon to show you the conversion.

[madworm]

I bump thee, so you can hopefully help me!

[emilepetrone]

@madworm how can I help?

[madworm]

Well, as stated above, google pesters me with “Tracking Code Mismatch”

I can’t do more than entering the numbers given to me by tindie. I’ve checked it again just now.

What should I enter for “default URL” in googles UA setup?

[emilepetrone]

@madworm https://www.tindie.com/ should be fine.

[madworm]

I’ve requested a re-check. Let’s see what google says tomorrow.

[arachnidlabs]

Could you please add “_setAllowLinker” as documented here? https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingSite#multipleDomains

It’s a simple change, and it would make it possible for us to generate links on our sites that propagate the same Google Analytics session to Tindie - making the whole thing look like one big site for analytics purposes.

[emilepetrone]

Yep - should have it out later today…

[jewelia]

“_setAllowLinker” is a method on the older ga.js – now that we have switched over to Universal Analytics we are using the newer analytics.js which doesn’t appear to have this method (see https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/method-reference). If there is a way of doing this with analyics.js I’m happy to try it out, I just couldn’t find anything.

[arachnidlabs]

Oops, good point. It looks like it’s changed: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034342

[madworm]

Well, google is still not happy

[jewelia]

@arachnidlabs I pushed this change out today!

[jewelia]

@madworm we only include your Google Analytics ID on your product pages, store page, and any time a user adds your product to their shopping cart.

This means that since https://www.tindie.com/ isn’t your product page or store page, your tracking code won’t appear.

I think you need to change the “Default URL” to a page that has your tracking code, for example: https://www.tindie.com/stores/madworm/

Also – your Store Dashboard has a lot of the stats that you get from Google Analytics; while you’re welcome to use your own GA code if it’s easier we show you page views, conversion rate, etc on https://www.tindie.com/stores/dashboard/ (we also show you what URLs drive the most orders of your products!)

[arachnidlabs]

Thanks for that, @jewella!

[arachnidlabs]

@jewella, would it be possible to add some tracking for “add to wishlist”, such as triggering a GA action when it happens? Thanks to your recent changes, I can track users going from my site to Tindie, and determine if they bought anything, but not if they added an item to their wishlist.

As I hinted in my other post, I’m considering doing an experiment to test the effectiveness of wishlists vs preorders, and I can’t tell how effective it is unless I can tell when a user adds something to their wishlist.