March 4 we switch to Google's Universal Analytics

[gliderbits]

Hi Emile,

I am new to tindie and also to Google Analytics. I saw already that some people here are happy and using it, but for me and maybe other, I am mainly an Hardware guy, that is why I am here in Tindie
I was looking in Google Analytics, I believe I had setup it somehow and put the code ID in store settings.
However, I have no idea if I it is setup correctly and what will be “good options configurations” to use in Tindie. I found Google Analytics to be a huge (somehow complex) tool that I understand the importance of use, but I don’t want to spend a lot of time learning it.
Does it make sense to make a small article explaining “Google Analytics & Tindie for Dummies”?
Or if not, maybe point some suggestion of other online tutorials.

Thanks in advance!

Mario Luzeiro

[arachnidlabs]

Thanks for setting this up, Emile!

To save everyone some time, from Google’s guide on how to tell if you have universal analytics:

To find out if a web property is using Universal Analytics, sign in to your account and go to the Admin page. Select a property from the dropdown in the Property column.

A Classic Google Analytics account has an option in this column called Tracking Code. A Universal Analytics account has an option called Tracking Info that includes more Admin settings like Session Settings and Organic Search Sources. These additional settings are only available to Universal Analytics properties. If you have these settings, you have a Universal Analytics property.

I set up my analytics code when Tindie first launched analytics support, and it’s a universal one, so it’s likely you have universal analytics too - but it’s definitely worth checking to be sure.

[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!)