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CONTENTS OF THIS FILE
- Introduction
- Requirements
- Installation
- Configuration
- Page specific tracking
- Custom Dimensions And Metrics
- Advanced setting
- Manual Js Debugging
- Usage
- Maintainers
INTRODUCTION
The module provides
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For a full description of the module, visit the project page: https://www.drupal.org/project/google_analytics
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To submit bug reports and feature suggestions, or to track changes: https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/google_analytics
REQUIREMENTS
This module requires no modules outside of Drupal core.
INSTALLATION
- Install the Google Analytics module as you would normally install a contributed Drupal module. Visit https://www.drupal.org/node/1897420 for further information.
CONFIGURATION
1. Navigate to Administration > Extend and enable the module.
2. Navigate to Administration > Configuration > System > Google Analytics
to configure tracking behavior.
3. Enter your Google Analytics account number.
4. All pages will now have the required JavaScript added to the HTML footer
can confirm this by viewing the page source from the browser.
PAGE SPECIFIC TRACKING
The default is set to "Add to every page except the listed pages". By default the following pages are listed for exclusion:
/admin
/admin/*
/batch
/node/add*
/node/*/*
/user/*/*
These defaults are changeable by the website administrator or any other user with 'Administer Google Analytics' permission.
Like the blocks visibility settings in Drupal core, there is a choice for "Add if the following PHP code returns TRUE." Sample PHP snippets that can be used in this textarea can be found on the handbook page "Overview-approach to block visibility" at https://drupal.org/node/64135.
CUSTOM DIMENSIONS AND METRICS
One example for custom dimensions tracking is the "User roles" tracking.
1. In the Google Analytics (https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/)
Management Interface you need to setup Dimension #1 with name
e.g. "User roles". This step is required. Do not miss it, please.
2. Enter the below configuration data into the Drupal custom dimensions
settings form under admin/config/system/googleanalytics. You can also
choose another index, but keep it always in sync with the index used in
step #1.
Index: 1 Value: [current-user:role-names]
More details about custom dimensions and metrics can be found in the Google API documentation at https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/custom-dims-mets.
ADVANCED SETTINGS
You can include additional JavaScript snippets in the custom javascript code textarea. These can be found on the official Google Analytics pages and a few examples at https://drupal.org/node/248699. Support is not provided for any customisations you include.
To speed up page loading you may also cache the Google Analytics "analytics.js" file locally.
MANUAL JS DEBBUGING
For manual debugging of the JS code you are able to create a test node. This is the example HTML code for this test node. You need to enable debugging mode in your Drupal configuration of Google Analytics settings to see verbose messages in your browsers JS console.
Title: Google Analytics test page Body:
<ul>
<li><a href="mailto:foo@example.com">Mailto</a></li>
<li><a href="/files/test.txt">Download file</a></li>
<li><a class="colorbox" href="#">Open colorbox</a></li>
<li><a href="https://example.com/">External link</a></li>
<li><a href="/go/test">Go link</a></li>
</ul>
Text format: Full HTML
USAGE
In the settings page enter your Google Analytics account number.
All pages will now have the required JavaScript added to the HTML footer can confirm this by viewing the page source from our browser.
MAINTAINERS
- Alexander Hass (hass) - https://www.drupal.org/user/85918