Comments on: Customize Your User Experience with Google Analytics

By: hallian

hallian — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:52:41 +0000

ok i get it. This code would allow the visitors to see how many times they have visited our web page. Great! Is there any way we can use Google Analytics for finding out how many times a particular page has been viewed just like in blogs. Thanks!

By: hallian

hallian — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:50:08 +0000

Well the counter does not seem to be unique to each page. It just counts all the page visits on a given site i believe. Plus how can i have pageviews unique to each page and display total number of pageviews whether unique or not rather than the visits.

By: hallian

hallian — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:45:25 +0000

It worked. Thanks a lot.

By: Allaedin Ezzedin

Allaedin Ezzedin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:12:39 +0000

Hi Hallian,

Update the code to include a reference to the JS file
script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://www.economistan.com/Scripts/SessionTracker.js”>

Good Luck,

By: hallian

hallian — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:57:32 +0000

Sorry, the code did not come right in the previous post. You can view the code at the following address. Thanks.

http://www.economistan.com/thepageviewtest.html

By: hallian

hallian — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:55:20 +0000

Here is my test page code. Donno why its not working.

test page

var gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”);
document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src=’” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”));

try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-8646907-4″);
pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}

alert(“visit count= ” + visit_count);
alert(“pageview count= ” + pageview_count);

By: hallian

hallian — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:35:59 +0000

Hi, i have implemented the code. Now plz tell me how can i get to display the number of pageviews and visits on the page.

By: Allaedin Ezzedin

Allaedin Ezzedin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:48:55 +0000

I love it Polly! I am very interested to learn about different applications of this technique…

Thanks for sharing,

By: Rehan Asif

Rehan Asif — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:21:25 +0000

Hi Polly,

That is an excellent application of this technique!
It certainly keeps the number of landing pages/form pages under control.

By: Polly Pospyelova

Polly Pospyelova — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:34:43 +0000

I have been using the same technique to force email capture before showing one block on my landing pages for visitors who came to the site 2 times only! In addition, I use _utmZ cookie to check visitor source and show the right telephone number which allows me to track calls and attrubute leads to the right marketing channel.

Polly

By: Allaedin Ezzedin

Allaedin Ezzedin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:15:44 +0000

Thanks Nikki, Please try it and share with us your findings… I am very interested to see what you build around this

By: Nikki Rae

Nikki Rae — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:50:59 +0000

This is great – can’t wait to try it!
Nikki Rae

By: Allaedin Ezzedin

Allaedin Ezzedin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:13:59 +0000

Thanks Dave, let us know how it works out for you

By: Allaedin Ezzedin

Allaedin Ezzedin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:11:24 +0000

Thank you Kim, I am glad you liked it

By: Dave Hassall

Dave Hassall — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:36:01 +0000

Feras

Awesome – I’m just planning the build of a website that will encourage people to recommend a friend and get a great reward. Having this facility on the “Recommend A Friend” page will be amazing

I’m guessing that customizing messages is really easy, e.g.

“You’ve recommended X friends – recommend 10 and recieve our special bonus gift”

Thanks for the info

Dave

By: Kim Nichols

Kim Nichols — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:20:53 +0000

Excellent information. Thanks for the great explanation.