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Re:tracking joomla usernames in google analytics (1 viewing)
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TOPIC: Re:tracking joomla usernames in google analytics
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tracking joomla usernames in google analytics 2009/07/23 04:17 Karma: 0  
Does joomlagator track the usernames of people who are logged into a site. If it does do you need to do anything to make it track the users.

This is what i found from another website about joomlagator.
http://techblog.insiro.com/tag/joomlagator/

The idea of using _setVar to track individual users is a brilliant idea in JoomlaGATor. However, recently, I have noticed that the variables are changed to ‘Guest’ after some time the user has logged out. This has caused some inconsistencies in the Google Analytics report. Upon some investigation, I found that JoomlaGATor sets the variable using setVar to ‘Guest’ for any non-logged in user.

The limitation of _setVar is that it can only set 1 value, as mentioned here. So when the user has logged in for the first time, the variable is set to the username. However, when subsequently the user visits the site again, and the logon session has expired, the variable is set back to Guest. When such a scenario happens, the previous pages that were visited by the user is marked as Guest again. This causes the statistics to become inconsistent.

To resolve this, I have actually commented the line in mod_analytics as shown below, so as not to tag Guest for non-login visitors.

# $output .= "pageTracker._setVar("Guest");n";

Ive tried to track usernames but it hasn't been working for me any ideas?
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Re:tracking joomla usernames in google analytics 2009/07/24 23:46 Karma: 1  
If the user isn't logged in it just isn't possible to track the user's username. Limitation of Joomla, nothing I can do about it.
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Re:tracking joomla usernames in google analytics 2009/07/27 18:32 Karma: 0  
When i had users login it didnt show them on google analytics for some reason. Do i need do do anything in google analytics to see the joomla usernames for the people once they are logged in? Also does it track the usernames by cookies or ip address?
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Re:tracking joomla usernames in google analytics 2009/07/29 19:32 Karma: 1  
It tracks the usernames based on whether the user is logged into Joomla and provides a username using the API or not.
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Re:tracking joomla usernames in google analytics 2009/07/30 17:32 Karma: 0  
Whats currently happening is when people are logging into joomla all it shows in google analytics is Guest not there usernames. Is there anyway to fix this.
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Re:tracking joomla usernames in google analytics 2009/11/20 01:13 Karma: 0  
I have the same problem. The only usernames I have show up in GA is admin and Guest. My registered users are showing up under Guest. I'm guessing it's because they're guest when the hit the site, and nothing's changing when they log in. Anyone else have this? Anyone with a solution?
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Re:tracking joomla usernames in google analytics 2010/08/14 10:34 Karma: 0  
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