ExpressionEngine CMS
Open, Free, Amazing

Thread

This is an archived forum and the content is probably no longer relevant, but is provided here for posterity.

The active forums are here.

Customer Tracking

March 09, 2011 3:38pm

Subscribe [3]
  • #1 / Mar 09, 2011 3:38pm

    TMDcreative

    3 posts

    Is there any way for us to track customers individually to see which pages they are visiting?

    Thanks!

  • #2 / Mar 10, 2011 1:33pm

    Lisa Wess

    20502 posts

    Hi, TMDcreative - not out of the box, no.  There are some outside analytics packages that I believe offer this functionality, and you could integrate or add into your EE templates.  I haven’t used those myself so can’t give a personal recommendation; but they are out there and one of them might suit your needs well.

  • #3 / Mar 10, 2011 2:32pm

    Mark Bowen

    12637 posts

    I believe you can utilise Google Analytics to do this sort of thing. I’ve not done it myself and it would depend on whether these are logged in or logged out users that you are wanting to track?

    There is also a module called Tracker which Solspace has made which deals with this sort of thing also.

    Best wishes,

    Mark

  • #4 / Mar 10, 2011 4:30pm

    Brandon Jones

    5500 posts

    Thanks Mark, those would be my suggestions as well. Don’t hesitate with further questions, TMDcreative.

  • #5 / Mar 10, 2011 8:51pm

    TMDcreative

    3 posts

    Thanks for the input. It would definitely be used to track logged-in users, and I don’t see Google Analytics doing that.

    I will poke around!

  • #6 / Mar 10, 2011 9:27pm

    Lisa Wess

    20502 posts

    There is an extension for Mint to track logged in users.  Here it is on Devot-ee.

    Other systems may have ways to gather that information as well with a custom add-on built for EE.  Definitely worth a look!

  • #7 / Mar 11, 2011 5:07am

    Mark Bowen

    12637 posts

    …and I don’t see Google Analytics doing that.

    As mentioned I’ve not done it with GA before but take a look at :

    http://www.googlelytics.net/using-setvar-_utmsetvarutm_setvar-for-custom-segmentation/
    or
    http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=57045
    or
    http://groups.google.com/group/analytics-help-tracking/browse_thread/thread/99655a499d6c56f2?pli=1

    or just search on Google for _setVar google analytics

    Hope that helps a bit.

    Best wishes,

    Mark

  • #8 / Mar 11, 2011 7:01pm

    Brandon Jones

    5500 posts

    Yep, you can have EE parse Javascript for {logged_in_member_id} so it should be do-able. Thanks again, Mark.

  • #9 / Mar 14, 2011 1:18pm

    TMDcreative

    3 posts

    Thanks again for the feedback!

  • #10 / Mar 14, 2011 2:22pm

    Brandon Jones

    5500 posts

    Thanks TMD. Closing this one but don’t hesitate to post again.

.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

ExpressionEngine News!

#eecms, #events, #releases