Eileen's guide to Google Analytics with V8

[Eileen]

We've finally put our V8.5.1 site live.... and we switched PSP's as well, from WorldPay to Protx.

I had to make one tweak to my funnel, and add the /PSP Bounce Page.html
my funnel works, and now looks like:

Goal URL: /receipt.html
Step 1 : /Checkout Page 0.html Select Invoice Location
Step 2 : /Checkout Page 1.html Invoice Address
Step 3 : /Checkout Page 2.html Select Payment Method
Step 4 : /PSP Bounce Page.html go to PSP

Match Type = Head Match

[Chunkford]

Eileen or someone else

Can someone tell me why i need to call the urchin tracker twice on the reciept page - one in the header and one in the body?

Paul

[Eileen]

Hi Paul....
after reviewing the google code on the google help pages, it looks to me like it doesn't need to be in the body as well as the header.

I'm going to try removing it from the bottom of my test site receipt page and see what happens....

cheers,

[Big Game Hunter]

Anyone Else Got This Working on a Custom Theme?

Has anyone else managed to get this work on a cutom layout? It would just give me some hope that it can be done.

Shannon

[pinbrook]

We've use the info here on a custom theme, you just have to be a little more lateral in your thinking to place some of the code in different places.

The main difference we found we using a custom theme based on clean css was there are no head tags in the receipt page, so the code went into the custom layout for checkout.

[pinbrook]

27) Immediately after <Actinic:XMLTEMPLATE NAME="ProductLine"> insert the following:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript"> <!-- utmquantity = "NETQUOTEVAR:QUANTITY"; utmprodref = "NETQUOTEVAR:PRODREF"; utmproduct = "NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME"; --> </script>

From post 1 -- why NQVs ? this is v8?

[papermilldirect]

Problem with Google Analytics coding

Hi all,

After following Eileen's superb guide to implimenting Google analytics it seems to be generating some stats. I'll need to time to analize these but in the meantime something weird has happened to our website.

The site is papermilldirect.com and when you go through it, it has, at the bottom a 'text area' that says 'undefined' in every page as products are selected then the information turns to something like this....

UTM:T|NETQUOTEVAR:THEORDERNUMBER|Main Store|£38.83|£5.78|0.00|NETQUOTEVAR:INVOICEADDRESS3|NETQUOTEVAR:INVOICEADDRESS4|UK UTM:I|NETQUOTEVAR:THEORDERNUMBER|195|041/210 Lakeland Gloss 260g/m2 329mm x 10m||£27.05|1

Obviously this is directly related to the code I added to the website for Analytics. It makes the site look messy and might worry some buyers.

Can anyone shed some light on this, it must be something I've done wrong but I followed the instructions to the letter (or so I think)

As always any help is much appreciated.

Kind regards,

Paul

[Eileen]

Hi Paul,
you haven't got your Analytics account number in the bottom of your page.... you have _uacct = "UA-xxxxxxx-x";

and you have the debug code turned on which displays the form data prior to sending it to Google :

document.write('<form name="utmform"><textarea cols="80" rows="10" id="utmtrans">' + utmt + utmi + '</textarea></form>');

Now that your site is live, you will want to comment out this line and uncomment the other document.write line

[papermilldirect]

Thanks Eileen

Many thanks for that.

I've commented out the line you suggested in the content page of the design view. Is this the only place it needs commenting out?

When you say I need to uncomment the other document.write line, I can't see another document.write line that is currently commented.

Any idea where it is, I see one other document.write but it's immediately under the one I've just commented out.

Many thanks for your help.

Kind regards,

Paul

[Eileen]

Paul,
You'll need to make the same change everywhere you put that code.

The document.write line which you need to uncomment is the one with this code in it:

style="display:none;"

cheers,

[papermilldirect]

Thanks Eileen - It appears I hadn't read your instructions carefully enough and noted the information abou the lines are there for debugging - consequently neither were commented out. That's been corrected now.

I've also changed the google account number in the content page and the reciept page was OK - I think this is all there was to check.

Many thanks again for your help and (very) quick replies.

Kind regards,


Paul

[pht]

Sally

If you took the time to read Eileens intro you would see that the solution posted was based on one template and it was made clear that it may not work in other templates.

I have succesfully integrated Eileens excellent solution into a custom css based design and it works perfectly.

Also Eileen has developed this off her own back and has been good enough to share her implementation with the Actinic community.

Maybe Actinic will integrate GA into a future release of the package but in the meanwhile we need to be thankful to those in the community who are talented enough and generous enough to share their work with the rest of us.

'nuff said.

Thanks Eileen, excellent solution - and adaptable to other designs too.


Peter


www.acsissling.com - online specialist ironmongers and hardware retailer

[pht]

GA not tracking

Me again

Has anyone noticed that GA has not been tracking since Saturday?

Quite a few posts appearing on the Analytics boards regarding this.

Comments?

[leehack]

Also Eileen has developed this off her own back and has been good enough to share her implementation with the Actinic community.

Maybe Actinic will integrate GA into a future release of the package but in the meanwhile we need to be thankful to those in the community who are talented enough and generous enough to share their work with the rest of us.

'nuff said.

I read that post about half an hour ago and bit my lip, I was quite appalled at the tone of the post. Like you say, if you can think laterally and apply a set of rules to your own situation, you can benefit greatly from somebody elses FREE advice.

People with either a lack of grace or 'grey stuff' should perhaps investigate paying for things instead, if the FREE advice just isn't good enough for them. The ability to read is always a bonus too.

Good post Peter.

[wfl]

No doubt Sally is a bit uptight and frustrated but there is no call for flaming.

Eileen's solution is excellent and it was good of her to share it with us all.

It probably saved me hours frustration trying to update from my V7 version.

Eileen correctly made the point about themes but it works fine in our customised CSS site and I am sure it will work other designs so long as you place the code correctly.

As ever you must read the entire thread to get the few amendments we have all made.

Finally I grant you Actinic isn't a perfect solution but then neither is a PC or the Windoze operating system running on it. At least Actinic and its community of users is constantly developing new ideas and solutions.