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Questifer
Questifer

Reputation: 1123

Google Analytics UserID Tracking Code

I'm setting up UserID tracking in Google Analytics. Google's documentation displays this piece of code to push UserIDs into analytics:

ga('create', 'UA-XXXX-Y', { 'userId': 'USER_ID' });
ga('send', 'pageview');

However, when I'm in my Google Analytic's settings area, it displays the following piece of code to include UserIDs.

ga(‘set’, ‘&uid’, {{USER_ID}}); // Set the user ID using signed-in user_id.

What is the difference between set and create? Do they both achieve the same result?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 441

Answers (1)

nyuen
nyuen

Reputation: 8907

Both of them should work. Including the user id in the 'create' call includes setting it as well.

ga('create', 'UA-XXXX-Y', {'userId': 'USER_ID'});
ga('send', 'pageview');

is equivalent to

ga('create', 'UA-XXXX-Y');
ga('set', '&uid', {{USER_ID}}); // Set the user ID using signed-in user_id.
ga('send', 'pageview');

If you do copy and paste provided in GA, then you will need to change the smart quotes to straight quotes, because smart quotes will break GA.

Upvotes: 1

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