Contents
- 1 How do I track a button in Google Analytics?
- 2 How do I track social shares in Google Analytics?
- 3 How do I track a button click on my website?
- 4 What are Google Analytics setting variables?
- 5 How are social interactions tracked in Google Analytics?
- 6 How can I get social interaction analytics on Facebook?
- Figure out which events you want to track on your website.
- Create a “generic” click trigger in Google Tag Manager.
- Publish your container.
- Open your website in the same browser in a new tab.
- Click the CTA you want to track.
- Create an event “Tag” that connects your trigger to a Google Analytics event.
Once you’ve set up a trigger and then create a Google Analytics Universal tag.
- Select the track type social.
- Add your parameters for each social network.
- Finally, set the tag to fire on all the pages hosting your native social prompts.
How do I capture click events in Google Analytics?
Create a single Tag to handle all clicks:
- Click Tags. New.
- Click Tag Configuration. Google Analytics – Universal Analytics.
- Set Track Type to Event.
- Complete the Event Tracking Parameters: Category: Nav.
- Click Triggering and select the trigger that you created in step 3, titled “Trigger – Nav Clicks”.
- Save the tag.
Let’s get started!
- Find your button. Start by finding the button you want to track on your website.
- View the source code. Since I’m using Chrome, I’m going to right-click the button and select ‘Inspect’.
- Enable the variable.
- Create a tag.
- Create a trigger.
- Preview the container.
- Check Google Analytics.
- Publish the container.
What are Google Analytics setting variables?
The Google Analytics Settings variable is used in Universal Analytics tags for web and mobile (Firebase) containers to centrally configure and share common Google Analytics settings across multiple tags. …
How to track a ” button click ” event in Google Analytics?
Create an event “Tag” that connects your trigger to a Google Analytics event In the left-hand navigation, click “Tags”. Click “New Tag” and name your tag. Select “Universal Analytics as the “Tag Type” and enter your Tracking ID. (This can be found under your website’s property in Google Analytics, in the “tracking code” section.
While event tracking can track general content interactions as well, Social Analytics provides a consistent framework for recording social interactions. This in turn provides Google Analytics report users with a consistent set of reports to compare social network interactions across multiple networks.
To get social interaction Analytics and reporting for other networks like Facebook or Twitter, you need to integrate Google Analytics with each network button. With Social Plug-in Analytics, recorded interactions range from a Facebook “Like” to a Twitter “Tweet.”.
What happens when a user likes your page on Google Analytics?
When a user Likes your page, the callback function is executed and receives the URL of the resource being liked. The resource is then passed as a value to the _trackSocial method so Google Analytics can report on the network, action and URL being liked.