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Charles Bryant
Charles Bryant

Reputation: 1025

Google Analytics Event Unique Per Session

I have a site where I track click outs, one user may click out several times so if I have 100 users I may have 300 click out events. This is ok for a rough guide but ideally I would like to know how many users have clicked out so 100 users 85 users clicked out.

I could write some js on my site to handle this store in a cookie but I was wondering if there is anything in ga.js that will allow me to fire an event once per session.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1305

Answers (1)

GreatBlakes
GreatBlakes

Reputation: 4161

You can use Custom Dimensions to scope things to the session (or even the user). Create a dimension in the Google Analytics admin tab under Property within Custom Definitions.

Set the scope to session, then copy the ga('set', 'dimension1', 'Description Here'); and paste it before sending the event (obviously, change "Description Here" to your own explanation. Also, make sure 'dimension1' matches the index it gives you.

Custom dimensions (and metrics) are tied to hit types, so simply setting them does nothing until a hit type is sent- so either a pageview or an event.

Once you've created the dimension, you can use it for anything you would a standard dimension in reporting- including segments and custom reports.

Hope that helps!

Upvotes: 1

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