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lbreau
lbreau

Reputation: 63

Custom reports showing download events in Google Analytics

Has anyone been able to include downloads within a custom report in Google analytics? I know I can get general/all events, but I just want downloads.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1440

Answers (2)

TomFuertes
TomFuertes

Reputation: 7270

Google Analytics on Steroids offers a great _gasTrackDownloads hook in their API if you don't already have the tracking code in place per @Sheikh's more accurate Custom Report answer above.

Code Example:

<script type="text/javascript">
var _gas = _gas || []; // _gas instead of _gaq
_gas.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-YYYYYY-Y']); // REPLACE WITH YOUR GA NUMBER
_gas.push(['_setDomainName', '.mydomain.com']); // REPLACE WITH YOUR DOMAIN
_gas.push(['_trackPageview']);
_gas.push(['_gasTrackForms']);
_gas.push(['_gasTrackOutboundLinks']);
_gas.push(['_gasTrackMaxScroll']);
_gas.push(['_gasTrackDownloads']); // track downloads
_gas.push(['_gasTrackYoutube', {force: true}]);
_gas.push(['_gasTrackVimeo', {force: true}]);
_gas.push(['_gasTrackMailto']);

(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script');
ga.type = 'text/javascript';
ga.async = true;
ga.src = '//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/gas/1.10.1/gas.min.js'; // new url
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
})();
</script>

Link: Google Analytics on Steroids

Upvotes: 1

The Alpha
The Alpha

Reputation: 146219

If you are asking to track the downloads then you can add _trackEvent method in to the link that you want to track, like

Click <a onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Downloads', 'Demo', this.href]);" href="downloads/google_dynamic_map.zip">here</a> to download with demo.

Above code is from my working site and I'm able to track download of that file.

To view the report you can select the Contents->Events menu from the left nav bar of your google analytics page.

In my link Downloads is the Event Category and Demo is the Event Action and this.href is my Event Label which gives me the url of the file.

I've also created a custom report only to track Downloads event category from Google's custom report option and can track it from that custom report, filtered by Downloads.

Screenshot of Custom Report settings

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Screenshot of standard report and viewing from content menu

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Useful links here: Link One and Link Two and Event Tracking Guide.

Update: Also remember it'll take some time after you setup all of those things to track and see the result.

Upvotes: 1

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