Comments on: Event Tracking Pt. 3: Reporting & Analysis

By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:36:35 +0000

Sunil,

Event tracking is still in beta. Even if you implement the code you won’t see any data until your account has been white listed. You can apply for the beta here http://tr.im/iZAg.

Thanks for the question.

Justin

By: sunil

sunil — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:05:51 +0000

Hi,

Could anyone please let me know how i can activate the reports on my GA account. I am sending event data to GA but i dont have the Event reporting option.

I am manipulating the URL to gain access to event data. Is Event reporting and event tracking live or still in beta?

Thanks,
Sunil

By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:21:09 +0000

Hi Matt,

1. No, you can’t see which pages the events are occuring on. This is a major limitation. You could encode that data into the category/action/label name, but there isn’t a report that splits it out by page.

2. No, filters suck at filtering events. This is a huge issue as we need to filter event data in the same way that we filter pageview data.

Thanks for the questions,

Justin

By: Matthew Self

Matthew Self — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:58:10 +0000

I have the event tracking beta enabled for my site, but I have a few questions on how the reports work.

1) Is there a way to see what pages events are occurring on? The necessary data all seems to be passed up to GA, but I don’t see a way to get to this in the reports. If you select a certain event, the drop down of Dimensions to drill in on does not include the Page that the event happened on.

2) Is there a way to create a filter for events? I use filters to tack different subdirectories of my site in different profiles, but I don’t see any way to split up the reporting of events into separate profiles in a similar way.

By: steve wardle

steve wardle — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:22:20 +0000

Event tracking has been in place now for well over a month (as of dec.08.08).

Such a great addition to reporting as the data is so much more valuable than before. We have over 1200 docs on site and just to be able to break the report up to doc type and then title.

Superb!

By: Luke Stevens

Luke Stevens — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:34:04 +0000

I’ve just noticed the ‘Event Tracking’ report (under ‘Content’) has appeared in client profiles – looks like they’ve finally activated it!

Thanks for the great series on this too Justin, hopefully everyone will be able to take a second look now it is being rolled out more widely.

By: Malcolm Sequeira

Malcolm Sequeira — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:39:41 +0000

Hi Justin, sorry to be the umpteenth person asking the same question – any idea on when reporting will be available?

Thanks much,

Malcolm

By: Justin Cutroni

Justin Cutroni — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:06:14 +0000

Hi blaasvlam,

Good question! I’m not sure when Google will move Event Tracking out of Beta. Hopefully it will be soon.

Thanks for the question,

Justin

By: blaasvlam

blaasvlam — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:02:01 +0000

Hi Justin,

Is the reporting live yet and if not, any clues yet when it will be?

Many thanks!

By: Evan Mullins

Evan Mullins — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:53:22 +0000

Yes! I second that notion! The whole idea of Event Tracking is awesome, and it will be nice when the reporting is made available to all GA users.
I was confused for a while, searching through the Google Analytics help documentation where they list out how to turn on event tracking reporting, you just go to your account settings and click the box labeled “Event Tracking Enabled” – Google Event Tracking Setup Guide. I found no such options…
Justin, great posts, I really learn what I come to learn, I’ve become a regular!