{"id":11,"date":"2017-04-26T03:59:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T03:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.analyticsbook.org\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2021-02-19T01:29:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T01:29:55","slug":"google-analytics-goal-tracking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.analyticsbook.org\/google-analytics-goal-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Analytics Goal Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A typical ecommerce website needs to track purchases or registrations as conversions. Such conversions can be defined in Google Analytics as goals (or goal conversions).<\/p>\n
Setting up goals to track either purchases or registrations is similar in Google Analytics. Let’s consider a case to set up goal conversions to track purchases on your site.<\/p>\n
Google Analytics has four goal types available.<\/p>\n
<\/ins><\/p>\n Under your Google Analytics properties, go to:<\/p>\n Google Analytics requires one of the three ways to match your goal destination URL<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n Equals to:<\/p>\n Begins with:<\/p>\n Regular expression:<\/p>\n Then you are given options to:<\/p>\n <\/ins><\/p>\n If you have your goal and goal funnel steps created correctly, then later you will expect to see the visual data in your goal funnel report.<\/p>\n Now you can save your goal.<\/p>\n Once you have created a goal, the goal starts reporting goal data in your Google Analytics view going forward. Your Google Analytics view does not retroactively reprocess goal data that could have happened prior to the goal creation.<\/p>\n Assume your Chinese mobile website allows users to sign up (or register).<\/p>\n Your website has a registration form on this web page.<\/p>\n When a user successfully registered, he \/she will be shown this registration success page.<\/p>\n To create this goal, under to your Google Analytics properties go to:<\/p>\n <\/ins><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Content on Gordon Choi’s Analytics Book is licensed under the CC Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International license.<\/em><\/p>\n Gordon Choi’s Other Books: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n [elementor-template id=”764″]\t\t<\/p>\n Copyright 2016-2021 www.AnalyticsBook.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What Four Types Of Goals Are Available In Google Analytics? Gordon Choi Author Chapter 07 – Google Analytics Goal Tracking Types of Goal Conversions Create a Destination Goal Goal funnel Track User Registration via Goal Conversion A typical ecommerce website needs to track purchases or registrations as conversions. Such conversions can be defined in Google […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"\nCreate a Destination Goal<\/h2>\n
View -> Goals -> +New Goal<\/pre>\n
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Goal funnel<\/h2>\n
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Track User Registration via Goal Conversion<\/h2>\n
URL A: http:\/\/www.example.com\/register<\/pre>\n
URL B: http:\/\/www.example.com\/register?success<\/pre>\n
View -> Goals -> +New Goal<\/pre>\n
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