With the years I learned that using CSS selectors to track user actions is really great but sadly I learned too that it’s really dangerous too. It’s true that we won’t need to ask the IT team to add some dataLayer or ga pushes into the page, and therefore saving…
I’ve been thinking about doing a Google Analytics related hackaton for a long time. Some months ago, I started to take a look about how Universal Analytics Plugins work and I decided that coding a plugin to all the data to a secondary property using just a plugin would be…
In JavaScript when you want to copy an object into another variable is not an easy as doing var myVar = myObjectVar; and you should be really careful when working with your dataLayer info in your customHtml Tags and your Custom Javascript Variables. Let’s try to explain this is the best way I…
This time I’m writting down some tips for when you guys are playing around with the custom HTML tags or custom JavaScript variables not only for Google Tag Manager, but for any other TMS or website. Most times due the projects deadlines or maybe just lazyness, the code we use…
In Google Analytics the urls are case sensitive, therefore in our content reports /index.html will be different to /Index.html, and querystring values will make Google Analytics to think that even if it’s the same page it will recorded as a new one, /index.html?cache=off and /index.html?cache=on will be recorded as 2 different pageviews for…
In the past years, I worked on implementing Google Analytlics and Google Tag Manager in a lot of differences scenearios and almost any kind of integrations. So I’m gonna show you some code snippets that may help you integrating Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics into your libraries in the best…
Google Tag Manager does not throw any error when the code in a variable fails. This is not bad per se as it would save us from having our sites failing if something is not coded as it should, but it will blind us agains some minor errors that may…
In my previous post I’ve talked about how to manage to use the native Optimizely tracking when using Google Tag Manager . Now we’re going further and we’ll learn how to track the experiment that are based on redirects in the best way possible. So, firstly you’ll need to enable the…
As you may already know, Optimizely has an in-built Google Analytics integration, which will allow us to track the experiments and variations being showed to a client using custom dimensions. For enabling them, you’ll need to put the following lines after the create command and the pageview one: window.optimizely = window.optimizely…
Two years ago I started “Inside GTM”, a blog focused on Google Tag Manager and other TMS tools along with @nikalytics, but we haven’t published anything since February, so we’ve agreed to close it 🙁 . After publishing the notice in Twitter, some people asked what was going to happen with the content…