Google Analytics Enhancements component
About
Supplementary behaviour (primarily JavaScript) to ease tracking with Google Analytics.
Usage
User actions
This component tracks three types of user engagement as actions in Google Analytics:
- General clicks in the browser as "UI" category
- standard elements like
abuttondetails - form elements like
inputselecttextarealabel
- Downloads of files as "Downloads"
zip|exe|pdf|doc*|xls*|ppt*|mp3|txt|fasta - Emails links as "Email"
mailto: - External links as "External links"
Explicit labels can be provided with data attributes:
data-vf-analytics-label="A special label"
Meta tags
Track dimensions:
<meta name="vf:page-type" content="category;pageTypeHere">How to add dimension to your property?
- https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/custom-dims-mets
- https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2709829?hl=en
Page region tracking
You can track the region of the page where an event occurs:
<div data-vf-google-analytics-region="main-content-area-OR-SOME-OTHER-NAME">
<a href="//www.example.com">My link here</a>
</div>Notes:
- region names should not be repeated on the same page
- nested regions are currently not fully supported
Verbose logging
<body data-vf-google-analytics-verbose="true">
JavaScript
You should import this component in ./components/vf-component-rollup/scripts.js or your other JS process:
import { vfGaIndicateLoaded } from 'vf-analytics-google/vf-analytics-google';
// Or import directly
// import { vfGaIndicateLoaded } from '../components/raw/vf-analytics-google/vf-analytics-google.js';
let vfGaTrackOptions = {
vfGaTrackPageLoad: true,
vfGaTrackNetwork: {
serviceProvider: 'dimension2',
networkDomain: 'dimension3',
networkType: 'dimension4'
}
};
vfGaIndicateLoaded(vfGaTrackOptions);vfGaIndicateLoaded() is the primary function and awaits and checks to see if Google Analytics client side JS has loaded. If it does, sets <body data-vf-google-analytics-loaded='true'>
Options
vfGaIndicateLoaded() accepts these options for object vfGaTrackOptions:
- Do not track the page load:
vfGaTrackOptions.vfGaTrackPageLoad(defaults to true).- If you set to false, the function will not track the initial page view. Useful if you track the initial page view with JavaScript in your HTML.
- Track the users network:
vfGaTrackOptions.vfGaTrackNetwork- As of February 2020 Google Analytics no longer tracks the network name of visitors
- A 3rd party tool enables this, follow the setup guide at https://ipmeta.io/instructions
- note there is no need to load https://ipmeta.io/plugin.js, this component includes it for you
- After configuring your property in Google Analytics, add the configuration below
vfGaIndicateUnloaded()
Utility method to invalidate prior GA check <body data-vf-google-analytics-loaded='false'>
vfGaTrackInteraction()
Can be used to directly track events if you wish to use your own event handler.
/**
* This code tracks the user's clicks in various parts of the site and logs them as GA events.
*
* Dev note:
* add class verbose-analytics to your body for a readout to console on clicks.
*
* @param {element} actedOnItem
* @param {string} customEventName Event action
* @example
* jQuery(".analytics-content-footer").on('mousedown', 'a, button', function(e) {
* vfGaTrackInteraction(e.target,'Content footer');
* });
* /Install
This repository is distributed with npm. After installing npm, you can install vf-analytics-google with this command.
$ yarn add --dev @visual-framework/vf-analytics-google
Sass/CSS
- There is currently no Sass/css needed for this component.