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Divesh Oswal
Divesh Oswal

Reputation: 250

How to use measurement protocol for desktop application

what I have tried is,

[with POST]

jQuery.support.cors = true;

$.ajax({
    url : "https://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&tid=UA-XXXXXXXX-1&cid=e8efa9cb-7b9e-479e-b07b-1528547dcdb4&t=event&ec=UX&ea=click&z=123456",
    type : 'POST',
    cache : false,
    dataType : 'json',
    success:function(data) {
        alert("Success: " + JSON.stringify(data));
    },
    error: function(data) {
        alert("Failure: " + JSON.stringify(data));
    }
});

or [with GET]

jQuery.support.cors = true;

$.ajax({
    url : "https://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&tid=UA-XXXXXXXX-1&cid=e8efa9cb-7b9e-479e-b07b-1528547dcdb4&t=event&ec=UX&ea=click&z=123456",
    dataType : 'json',
    success:function(data) {
        alert("Success: " + JSON.stringify(data));
    },
    error: function(data) {
        alert("Failure: " + JSON.stringify(data));
    }
});

Onclick of button I have added this code.

I'm getting status 200 but, In google analytics report [real time data] its showing No active users. And if I check previous days report its showing some count for user sessions.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 651

Answers (3)

Ruslan Konygin
Ruslan Konygin

Reputation: 1019

What possible problems do you have:

  1. Hope "UA-XXXXXXXX-1" - it is just for code example and you are using "real" GA ID in your code.
  2. Regarding ClientID: in the GA docs you may see ClientID like '35009a79-1a05-49d7-b876-2b884d0f825b'. But this ClientID should match for some ClientIDs for website users, that visited your website. Without specific settings GA will not generate ClientID like '35009a79-1a05-49d7-b876-2b884d0f825b', as GA automatically generates ClientID in format XXXXXXXXXX.XXXXXXXXXX, like "1068584379.1447331221".

How to find ClientID manually: find "_ga" cookie for your website, it should looks like "GA1.2.1068584379.1447331221". ClientID is 1068584379.1447331221 in this cookie.

How to get this parameter in JS-srcipt:

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

Remember, that ClientID identifies each unique user(browser) and ties user data, sent by measurement protocol, with user data, collected on a client-side(by GA js library). So to see data(sent by Measurement Protocol) in the GA reports is preferable to use "real" ClientID, for user, that visited website in the past.

Upvotes: 0

Linda Lawton - DaImTo
Linda Lawton - DaImTo

Reputation: 116878

There appears to be a bug in the way the measurement protocol is handling events. I have created an issue for this Here: Issue 848: Events not showing up on Real-time reports

You don't send the Application variables the data will not be displayed in real-time reports. As soon as you send a request with it they pop up again but you loose them if you send another event without it. It is not document at this time that the application variables are required. Also a debug on your request comes back with valid hit data.

https://www.google-analytics.com/debug/collect?v=1&tid=UA-xxxxx-1&cid=e8efa9cb-7b9e-479e-b07b-1528547dcdb4&t=event&ec=UX&ea=click&z=123456

{
  "hitParsingResult": [ {
    "valid": true,
    "parserMessage": [ ],
    "hit": "/debug/collect?v=1\u0026tid=UA-xxxxx-1\u0026cid=e8efa9cb-7b9e-479e-b07b-1528547dcdb4\u0026t=event\u0026ec=UX\u0026ea=click\u0026z=123456"
  } ],
  "parserMessage": [ {
    "messageType": "INFO",
    "description": "Found 1 hit in the request."
  } ]
}

Solution / work around:

Add the following items to your request should fix the problem. Again at this time it is not documented that they are required. However my testing has shown when you send these everything appears correctly again in the real-time reports.

cd=ScreenName&an=ApplicationName&aid=ApplicationId&av=3.0&ai‌​id=1.0

Upvotes: 3

AssafT
AssafT

Reputation: 97

I believe it's not a technical issue, but a data compatibility issue. The CID you used doesn't seem to fit GA structure of cid, which is [10 digits][dot][10 digits], i.e. 1234567890.1234567890 Try to force a different ID to check my solution.

Upvotes: 0

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