Search engine friendly URIs in google analytics

[cway]

I wonder if anyone knows how to get google analytics to use search engine friendly URIs? When I look at the Overview in Real-Time, it often will show the long URIs, such as /mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=xxx&Screen=CTGY&Category_C ode=xxx instead of /product-name
Thanks!
Cameron

[Brennan]

There is a bug on this in the GA module that will be fixed in 9.6. In the mean time you would have to modify the GA code to output your correct URL structure.

[cway]

Where, and how, do I edit the the GA code? Thanks, Brennan!

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Here is an example for doing a Lookup of Canonical URIs, see #9: http://docs.miva.com/v1.0/docs/uri-m...-documentation The Google Analytics tracking snippet needs to be customized using this method to obtain/pass the proper URI via pageview.

[cway]

Hi, Dan.
Thank you for that.
However, I'm unsure what to do with that code.

 
 <mvt:assign name="l.uri:store_id" value="g.Store:id" /> <mvt:assign name="l.uri:screen" value="''" /> <mvt:assign name="l.uri:page_id" value="0" /> <mvt:assign name="l.uri:cat_id" value="0" /> <mvt:assign name="l.uri:product_id" value="1" />   <mvt:do file="g.Module_Feature_URI_DB" name="l.have_uri" value="URI_Load_Item_Canonical( l.uri, l.settings:canonical_uri )" /> <mvt:if expr="l.have_uri">            &mvt:canonical_uri:canonical; <br>            &mvt:canonical_uri:cat_id;<br>            &mvt:canonical_uri:page_id;<br>            &mvt:canonical_uri:status;<br>            &mvt:canonical_uri:store_id;<br>            &mvt:canonical_uri:uri;<br> </mvt:if>

[cway]

Is it necessarily a problem that google shows the long URIs? The little research I've done suggests it's not recommended, but not necessarily a problem. I wonder what others have found...

[cway]

Brennan, do you know when 9.6 will be out, approximately?

[Rick Wilson]

9.6 is a ways off, sometime in Q2.

[elcucococo]

I can also confirm this bug. Glad it is being fixed in 9.6. Thank you Brennan and Rick!

[elcucococo]

I had to insert some code into the module's template to allow ecommerce tracking (as the checkbox on the settings page for the module did not properly set this up for my store by default). However after some adjustments, I was able to verify goal and ecommerce tracking within Google Analytics using the new URIs in Miva 9.00053. I know this is a temporary solution until the official 9.6 solution comes out.

It would be nice to have a new Google Analytics tutorial from Miva when 9.6 comes out to address proper goal and ecommerce tracking setups.

[lesliekirk]

I had to insert some code into the module's template to allow ecommerce tracking (as the checkbox on the settings page for the module did not properly set this up for my store by default). However after some adjustments, I was able to verify goal and ecommerce tracking within Google Analytics using the new URIs in Miva 9.00053. I know this is a temporary solution until the official 9.6 solution comes out.

It would be nice to have a new Google Analytics tutorial from Miva when 9.6 comes out to address proper goal and ecommerce tracking setups.

Agreed - could you share your workaround with the group, please?

[elcucococo]

Agreed - could you share your workaround with the group, please?

Gladly, Leslie!

<!-- Start Google Analytics Tracking Code --->
<mvt:miva compresswhitespace="off" />
<script>
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

ga('create', '<mvt:item name="ga_jsencode" param="ga_tracking:google_id_unencoded" />', 'auto');

<!-- Start Google Analytics Ecommerce Tracking Code --->
<mvt:if expr="l.settings:page:code EQ 'INVC'">
    ga('require', 'ecommerce');

    ga( 'ecommerce:addTransaction', {
        'id'            : '<mvt:eval expr="int( l.settings:ga_tracking:order_id )" />',
        'revenue'        : '<mvt:item name="ga_jsencode" param="ga_tracking:order_total" />',
        'affiliation'    : '<mvt:item name="ga_jsencode" param="store:name" />',
        'tax'            : '<mvt:item name="ga_jsencode" param="ga_tracking:total_tax" />',
        'shipping'        : '<mvt:item name="ga_jsencode" param="ga_tracking:total_ship" />'
    } );

    <mvt:foreach iterator="ga_orderitem" array="ga_tracking:orderitems">
    ga( 'ecommerce:addItem', {
        'id'        : '<mvt:eval expr="int( l.settings:ga_tracking:order_id )" />',
        'name'        : '<mvt:item name="ga_jsencode" param="ga_orderitem:name_unencoded" />',
        'price'        : '<mvt:item name="ga_jsencode" param="ga_orderitem:price" />',
        'sku'        : '<mvt:item name="ga_jsencode" param="ga_orderitem:code_unencoded" />',
        'category'    : '<mvt:item name="ga_jsencode" param="ga_orderitem:cancat_code_unencoded" />',
        'quantity'     : '<mvt:eval expr="l.settings:ga_orderitem:quantity" />'
    } );
    </mvt:foreach>

    ga( 'ecommerce:send' );
    <!-- Send Google Analytics Tracking Code for INVOICE pages --->
    ga( 'send', 'pageview', { 'page':'/<mvt:item name="ga_jsencode" param="ga_tracking:url_override_unencoded" />' } );
</mvt:if>
<!-- End Google Analytics Ecommerce Tracking Code --->

<!-- Send Google Analytics Tracking Code for non-INVOICE pages --->
<mvt:if expr="NOT g.UI_Exception">
ga( 'send', 'pageview', { 'page':'/<mvt:item name="ga_jsencode" param="ga_tracking:url_override_unencoded" />' } );
</mvt:if>

</script>
<!-- End Google Analytics Tracking Code --->

I am not claiming 100% accuracy. However, I can confirm my goals and ecommerce tracking are working as expected from within Google Analytics. Here is a screenshot of my Goal setup within GA (each goal URL begins with "/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=HPT&Screen="): http://www.haddrellspoint.com/screenshot.png

I will stipulate that the above code and GA goals settings will have to be updated with more official code once Miva releases 9.6 with the GA URI bug fix. Let me know if you have any questions! Thank you!

[lesliekirk]

Thank you ever so much!!!