Technique: Google Analytics for Dynamic Pages
I'm evaluating Google Analytics, and I'm fairly impressed so far. Not bad, for free stuff!
The first question that I had after reading the installation notes was "How do I track different states of a dynamic page?". For example, it is quite common to use Panel controls in ASP.Net to show different steps in a multi-step form, rather than having a separate page for each step. Since the Analytics urchinTracker Javascript is embedded once on each unique page, I was concerned that different states of a dynamic page would be untrackable.
Fortunately, this is not the case. You can call the urchinTracker JavaScript call from each state of your dynamic page, and simply pass it a made-up page name:
urchinTracker("checkout.html")
urchinTracker("confirm.html")
urchinTracker("success.html")
These "virtual" pages can be used by Analytics the same purposes as a real page. See the Google Analytics help info for more. Pretty cool!
The first question that I had after reading the installation notes was "How do I track different states of a dynamic page?". For example, it is quite common to use Panel controls in ASP.Net to show different steps in a multi-step form, rather than having a separate page for each step. Since the Analytics urchinTracker Javascript is embedded once on each unique page, I was concerned that different states of a dynamic page would be untrackable.
Fortunately, this is not the case. You can call the urchinTracker JavaScript call from each state of your dynamic page, and simply pass it a made-up page name:
urchinTracker("checkout.html")
urchinTracker("confirm.html")
urchinTracker("success.html")
These "virtual" pages can be used by Analytics the same purposes as a real page. See the Google Analytics help info for more. Pretty cool!
posted by tom at 11:29 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks, I have been wondering about this for a while. This post really helped me out.
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