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  1. How to set up Google Analytics in Ecwid
  2. Why is it necessary to set up GA in Ecwid even if I already have a GA code on my site?
  3. How do Ecwid pages look in GA backend?

How to set up Google Analytics in Ecwid

 
Please note, that the first results in Google Analytics reports will appear in about 24 hours after you entered your ID: www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=57053

 

 

Also we highly recommend to enable the "Ecommerce tracking" option in your GA settings. Please refer to the help article for details: www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55528

 

 

Why is it necessary to set up GA in Ecwid even if I already have a GA code on my site?

All Ecwid product pages are dynamic and generated on the fly. A page isn't refreshed, Ecwid just updates the HTML code on the page. It allows loading new pages really fast.

 

The traditional way to track pages is to add some JS code to the page code which is executed each time you load a page and tracks your hit. If you try to use this traditional way with Ecwid, you will see that your browser will load your page just ONCE and all the other clicks in your store won't cause page reloading, and the result doesn't generate a hit. So your customer will open your store and see 100 products, but the stats will show only 1 view.

 

In order to overcome this limitation, we use Google Analytics API to emulate page loads. When you open a dynamic Ecwid product page, Ecwid sends a special JS request to Google Analytics saying that a new product page was opened. This way allows getting the exact number of views of your AJAX pages. That is why it's necessary to set up GA in your Ecwid back-end to get the exact stats.

 

 

How do Ecwid pages look in GA backend?

Since Ecwid emulates page loading, the "virtual" pages appear in your Google Analytics back-end. What it means:  the Ecwid pages and links you see in the GA back-end don't point to actual pages. However each "virtual" page corresponds some real page in your store.

 

Here is the list of virtual pages generated by Ecwid:

  • "/product/" + productId;   (productId is a unique ID of a opened product)
  • "/category/" + categoryId (categoryId is a unique ID of a opened category)
  • "/search/" + keywords
  • "/bag"
  • "/checkout/shippingDetails"
  • "/checkout/addressBook"
  • "/checkout/paymentDetails"
  • "/checkout/placeOrder"
  • "/checkout/orderPlaced"
  • "/checkout/orderFailure"
  • "/account/addressBook"
  • "/account/settings"
  • "/account/orders"
  • "/downloadError/"

 

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