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user3429942
user3429942

Reputation: 61

Google Analytics Measurement protocol event tracking : events not logging

I am trying to use Google Analytics Measurement protocol (available with Universal Analytics) to track an offline event.

I am using the documentation here : https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/devguide#event

Here is the CURL I am calling : 

https://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&tid=UA-5520857-25&cid=1260961011.1389432370&t=event&ec=Test-event-cat&ea=Test-event-action&el=&ev=

I get the cid (client ID) via :

ga(function(tracker) {
  var clientId = tracker.get('clientId');
});

Here is the full CURL call :

$getString = 'https://www.google-analytics.com/collect?';
$getString .= http_build_query($data);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $getString);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_exec($ch);

$info = curl_getinfo($ch);

curl_close($ch);

// TEST
echo 'CURL call : '.$getString.'<br />';
echo 'Response : <pre>';
print_r($info);
echo '</pre>';

It returns a 200 HTTP code (but I've read that its always the case, even if something is wrong). No event is shown in my Google Analytics account, even on the real time section.

Do you have any idea about what I am doing wrong ?

Thank you

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5685

Answers (2)

aksik
aksik

Reputation: 1

The request in Measurement protocol, does not work, if there is no User-Agent

Upvotes: 0

user3429942
user3429942

Reputation: 61

The problem was that I wasn't setting the el and ev parameters.

The correct call is :

https://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&tid=UA-5520857-25&cid=1260961011.1389432370&t=event&ec=Test-event-cat&ea=Test-event-action&el=test-label&ev=1

Upvotes: 2

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