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Apogentus
Apogentus

Reputation: 6613

Absent pageviews in google analytics view (but events are shown)

Besides standard view 'All data' I've created a separate view to track users by USER_ID from my database, following official documentation (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3123662?hl=en).

If I watch User report from 'All data' view, I can see both pageviews and events of users, but user ids aren't interpretable.

If I watch 'User report' from newly created USER_ID view, I can see events, but not page views! (I double checked that in filter above pageviews IS checked). How can I see both events AND pageviews?

My tacking code is

<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->
<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=ID_OF_MY_RESOURCE"></script>
<script>
  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
  gtag('js', new Date());
  gtag('config', '<ID_OF_MY_RESOURCE>');
  gtag('set', {'user_id': 'MY_USER_ID'});

</script>

and I send events with gtag('event', 'event name', {'event_category' : 'some category', 'event_label' : 'some label'}); inside my web pages.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 638

Answers (1)

Open SEO
Open SEO

Reputation: 1712

In fact the config command sends the page view along with the base configuration. If you set the user_id value AFTER the config command, the page view hit doesn't know about it, but subsequent hits will use it. And UserID views only collect hits that hold a value for the user_id parameter. This is why you don't get page views in it.

Then you just need to change line orders:

<script>
  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
  gtag('set', {'user_id': 'MY_USER_ID'});
  gtag('js', new Date());
  gtag('config', '<ID_OF_MY_RESOURCE>');
</script>

There is no persistent tracker in gtag.js, just persistent settings that must be declared before sending a hit.

Upvotes: 1

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