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Setup Google Analytics on website #503

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Complexity: MissingFeature: Analyticsgoogle analyticsP-Feature: Dashboardhttps://hackforla.org/dashboardrole: front endTasks for front end developersrole: productProduct Managementsize: missing
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06. Data strategy

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@ashlingam
ashlingam
opened on May 9, 2020

Overview

Setup Google Analytics on website. This includes implementation of code snippets, deciding on metrics to track, and set up of the dashboard.

Repeated visits to the various sections of the website will skew dashboard data and impede the team's ability to get an accurate picture of user behavior. GA provides a mechanism to exclude individual IP addresses from data collection. See instructions below.

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Google Analytics

Exclude IP address instructions: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034840?hl=en

GA account setup: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1008015?hl=en
Tag setup: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1008080

Matomo
https://matomo.org
matomo-org/matomo#13016

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  1. ashlingam
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    role: front endTasks for front end developers
    analytics
    on May 9, 2020

  2. ashlingam commented on May 17, 2020

    @ashlingam
    ashlingam
    on May 17, 2020
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    @wesrowe It turns out that Hotjar's free tier caps users at 3 funnels and doesn't allow page-specific recordings (only the default home page). Can Google Analytics service our needs entirely? If not, I looked into Mixpanel and their free tier appears to be more generous, including funnels and recordings by segment. Also, do we already have a Google Analytics account set up, or do we need to create one?

  3. ashlingam
    assigned
    ashlingam
    and unassigned
    ashlingam
    on May 17, 2020

  4. wesrowe commented on May 18, 2020

    @wesrowe
    wesrowe
    on May 18, 2020

    @harishlingam I don't believe there is a GA account already for the HfLA website. Might as well created a new one.
    As for hotjar -- honestly, for the use cases I'm aware of GA would be adequate for understanding user behavior on our site. Recordings are typically useful at the margins, and we're not there yet. GA would be good to focus on as a next step.

  5. ashlingam
    changed the title [-]Setup Google Analytics on website[/-] [+]Setup analytics tool on website[/+] on May 23, 2020
  6. ashlingam
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    on May 23, 2020

  7. ashlingam commented on May 23, 2020

    @ashlingam
    ashlingam
    on May 23, 2020
    MemberAuthor

    @wesrowe That makes sense Wes. A new member of our team suggested looking at Matomo, an open-source GA alternative: https://matomo.org/get-matomo/, but the advantages it offers don't appear to be relevant to us. I will bring up getting GA set up in our next meeting.

  8. ashlingam commented on May 24, 2020

    @ashlingam
    ashlingam
    on May 24, 2020
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    Google Analytics code snippet:

    <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-167506267-1"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'UA-167506267-1'); </script>

  9. ashlingam commented on May 24, 2020

    @ashlingam
    ashlingam
    on May 24, 2020
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    A Google Analytics account has been created for HFLA under the webadmin@hackforla.org account. The GA snippet is to be pasted as the first item into the HEAD tag of every page we want to track.

  10. ExperimentsInHonesty
    assigned
    yulia-kh
    and unassigned
    ashlingam
    on May 24, 2020

  11. ExperimentsInHonesty commented on May 31, 2020

    @ExperimentsInHonesty
    ExperimentsInHonesty
    on May 31, 2020
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    Remove full story and replace with GA code #503 (comment)

  12. ExperimentsInHonesty
    closed this as completedin #565on Jun 7, 2020

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