NTFD Page and Google Analytics

[gmanning]

I was directed to a post on the Miva Blog (thanks Mark and Dan!): Installing Google Analytics In Miva Merchant 5.5. I have implemented it and love the simplicity of the single global footer script and the amount of functionality it provides.

My question is for the NTFD page. When that page is called, the pageTracker._trackPageview issues a blank product code as part of the url to report. For instance:

<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var productCode = "";
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-XXXXXX-1");
pageTracker._trackPageview('/product/' + productCode + '.html');
</script>

I modified the script provided in the blog post above (and here) to display 404.html when the NTFD page is called.

My question is, like the srch parameter trapping, is there a way to pass along the requested url in a parameter and append it to the reported URL?

So maybe something like this would show up in google analytics as the url that was visited:

/product/404.html?u=http://www.domain.com/badurl.html

Thanks!!

[gmanning]

Re: NTFD Page and Google Analytics

The code I tested is this:

...snip...

<mvt:if expr="g.Screen EQ 'PROD'">
    var productCode = "&mvte:product:code;";
<mvt:elseif expr="g.Screen EQ 'NTFD'">
    var errorCode = "404";    
<mvt:elseif expr="g.Screen EQ 'CTGY'">
    var categoryCode = "&mvte:category:code;";
<mvt:elseif expr="g.Screen EQ 'SRCH'">
    var searchQuery = "&mvte:global:Search;";
<mvt:else>
    var screenCode = "&mvte:global:screen;";
</mvt:if>

var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-XXXXXX-1");

<mvt:if expr="g.Screen EQ 'PROD'">
    pageTracker._trackPageview('/product/' + productCode + '.html');
<mvt:elseif expr="g.Screen EQ 'NTFD'">
    pageTracker._trackPageview('/error/' + errorCode + '.html');
<mvt:elseif expr="g.Screen EQ 'CTGY'">
    pageTracker._trackPageview('/category/' + categoryCode + '.html');
<mvt:elseif expr="g.Screen EQ 'SRCH'">
    pageTracker._trackPageview('/search.html?srch=' + searchQuery);

...snip...

It doesn't seem to work, when NTFD is called it is triggering the PROD screen logic above and not the NTFD.

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Re: NTFD Page and Google Analytics

You should be able to add it directly to the page conditionals. No real reason to set a Javascript variable if it is always going to be "404":

<mvt:if expr="g.Screen EQ 'PROD'">
	pageTracker._trackPageview('/product/' + productCode + '.html');
<mvt:elseif expr="g.Screen EQ 'CTGY'">
	pageTracker._trackPageview('/category/' + categoryCode + '.html');
<mvt:elseif expr="g.Screen EQ 'SRCH'">
	pageTracker._trackPageview('/search.html?srch=' + searchQuery);
<mvt:elseif expr="(g.screen EQ 'BASK')">
	pageTracker._trackPageview('/checkout/basket.html');
<mvt:elseif expr="(g.screen EQ 'NTFD')">
	pageTracker._trackPageview('/error/404.html');
<mvt:elseif expr="(g.screen EQ 'ORDL')">
	pageTracker._trackPageview('/checkout/login.html');
<mvt:elseif expr="(g.screen EQ 'OCST')">
	pageTracker._trackPageview('/checkout/address.html');
<mvt:elseif expr="(g.screen EQ 'OSEL')">
	pageTracker._trackPageview('/checkout/shipping.html');
<mvt:elseif expr="(g.screen EQ 'OPAY')">
	pageTracker._trackPageview('/checkout/payment.html');

[gmanning]

Re: NTFD Page and Google Analytics

True, good point! I updated my code to reflect that but it still invokes the Screen=PROD code:

<mvt:if expr="g.Screen EQ 'PROD'">
    pageTracker._trackPageview('/product/' + productCode + '.html');

I'm just not sure why it thinks it's a PROD page.

The only thing different I am doing in NTFD is sending a 404 header using wcw's Power Search module.

<mvt:item name="powrsrch" param="headeroutput|Status|404 Not Found" />

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Re: NTFD Page and Google Analytics

Give this a try... there might be a better way to handle it, but I am just not seeing it yet:

<mvt:if expr="'no longer exists.' IN g.Error_Messages">
       pageTracker._trackPageview('/error/404.html');