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Comment on Site Wide Bounce Rate by Kris Groulx

Kris Groulx — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:23:43 +0000

Hey Adam,

Yes I back Gabi’s solution. We’ve been using the Path Length report for close to 2 years and ours is the same compared to the calculated metrics version. Very quick and easy!

Kris

Comment on Tracking Navigation by Kris Groulx

Kris Groulx — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:52:50 +0000

Adam,

This is absolutely perfect. I’ve been struggling with Navigation questions and was going to attach CID’s to each of the link names, but I hated the thought of that and haven’t done it. Thanks for providing this great alternative.

Kris

Comment on Site Wide Bounce Rate by Adam Greco

Adam Greco — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:15:37 +0000

Michael,

Different people like different metrics. While I agree it is vague, there are some sites that want to see how often people (in general) bounce from their website…

Comment on Site Wide Bounce Rate by Michael

Michael — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:05:26 +0000

What is the purpose of knowing site bounce rate? I mean it isn’t very actionable. if you are talking about landing page bounce rate, or homepage bounce rate, then I can understand where to improve. But overall bounce rate just seem like a vague metric.

Comment on Tracking Navigation by Adam Jenkins

Adam Jenkins — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:59:59 +0000

Great post Adam,
I am currently dealing with a client who is also short on variables. This suggestion will come in handy.

Comment on # of Pages Viewed Counter eVar by Adam Greco

Adam Greco — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:46:18 +0000

Alissa,

I have to be honest. I haven’t tried that and am not sure what happens if you set a Counter eVar multiple times before sending an image request. I would either do some testing or ask @OmnitureCare…

Adam

Comment on # of Pages Viewed Counter eVar by Alissa

Alissa — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:10:06 +0000

Hey Adam, found this post while looking for a similar solution expect with radio button clicks. I need to measure how many times a user interacted with a page (allows them to customize a flash image of a product). To avoid sending a request to Omniture to add 1 to the counter after every click, can I get the same results by keeping the count in a javascript variable and adding that result after they click a submit button?

Comment on Tracking Navigation by Adam Greco

Adam Greco — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:14:44 +0000

Ken – Agreed. I tend to advocate SAINT only because I am often short on variables!!

Comment on Tracking Navigation by Ken McKell

Ken McKell — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:23:15 +0000

Adam, nice analysis.

As an alternative, instead of using SAINT to extract the top navigation grouping, we could use another prop to hold that value and which would be passed in at the same time.

Comment on Previous Page Variable by Adam Greco

Adam Greco — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:45:56 +0000

Ben,

As I mentioned in the post, if you pass the Previous Pagename to an eVar, you should be able to see what pages visitors were on when they added to the Cart. Just be sure you are setting the Previous Page eVar on every page and set expiration to “PageView” in the Admin Console. Since Products is fully subrelated by default, you can even break it down by product or product classification…