Comments on: Google Analytics Custom Variables Overview

By: David

David — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 03:10:46 +0000

oops. just appeared.. was about 36 hours after the test. the event tracking appeared withing a few hours. but the customer vars took much longer

By: David

David — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 03:07:50 +0000

Hi Justin,

i added some custom variables but still nothing on the report. sounds similar to waht @mark is saying. Do we need to switch it on somewhere?

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:14:22 +0000

@Mark: I am also waiting for the data to appear. How long did you have to wait?

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:49:00 +0000

@phil: Absolutely. Custom variables will be perfect for tracking content by author. I would use a page level custom variable to group your content by author.

@yulai: The new visitor scope Custom Variable uses the same cookie as the old user Defined feature. So you can’t use them together. I would use the new custom variables as userDefined will not be supported in the future.

@mike: Yes, I’m going to update the CRM script to extract the visitor level custom variable and pipe it into a CRM.

@ryan: Yes, you could use custom variables to track page load times, but I suggest using events. Check out this article on tracking page load times with events.

@Leonas: The actual number of custom variables that you can set is variable because of scope. A variable’s scope determines how long the variable will last and that changes how many slots are available for custom variables. I’ve got to get a blog post done on scope, I’ll try to have it done soon.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:38:09 +0000

For all those asking where the Custom Variables report is, you can find it in Visitors > Custom Variables.

Justin

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By: phil

phil — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:57:54 +0000

where exactly is the ‘Custom Variables report’ ? I can’t find it ? may be because I don’t have nay custom variable yet ? :)

By: phil

phil — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:54:43 +0000

I want to tracks visits by authors, should I use the custom variable or add an additional trackpageview looking like _trackPageview(“/by/author/Douglas Karr”);

what do you think ?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:19:56 +0000

Justin,

how long does it take for the data to appear?

Is there anything that needs to be configured in the reports to make it work?

I’ve been waiting over two days now and still no data is appearing.

Thanks