Google analytics site search issue

timmyfox
(@timmyfox)

5 years, 6 months ago
Hello! I seem to be having an issue with getting the search terms showing up properly in Google Analytics. I’ve set it up according to the guide and setting the parameter to s in the View Settings.

And whilst I can see some searches in the search reports as well as the events page, I do not seem to be getting any of the ajax-search: terms to appear in my reports, only the search terms where someone specifically visited the search results page.

All search terms do appear on the events page, but the ajax ones are not shown in the Site Search page.
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Thread Starter timmyfox
(@timmyfox)

5 years, 6 months ago
Also to add an example with steps to reproduce:

1. Search “test1” and click to view all results
2. Search “test2” but don’t click to view all results, instead click away or on one of the results directly.

After waiting for GA to catch up, I can see both “test1” and “test2” shown on the Events page under “Event labels”

But if I go to the Site Search page, only “test1” will show up in the list of search terms. I do not see either “test2” nor “ajax-search: test2” in this list.
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Plugin Author ILLID
(@mihail-barinov)

5 years, 6 months ago
Hi,

Looks like the problem here can be in the Tag Manager.

Please try the following: open advanced-woo-search/assets/js/common.js file, find lines
```
if ( typeof gtag !== 'undefined' ) {
                            gtag('event', 'AWS search', {
                                'event_label': label,
                                'event_category': 'AWS Search Term'
                            });
                        }
```
and replace with
```
if ( typeof gtag !== 'undefined' ) {
                            gtag('event', 'AWS search', {
                                'event_label': label,
                                'event_category': 'AWS Search Term'
                            });
                            window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
                            window.dataLayer.push({
                                'event' : 'search',
                                'searchTerm' : 'ajax-search:' + label
                            });
                        }
```
Thread Starter timmyfox
(@timmyfox)

5 years, 6 months ago

Hm, doesn’t seem to work still.
I replaced the code and made sure to clear my caches and tried again, first searching one thing and clicking on a product and then from there searching a different term and going straight to the search results. After ~5-10 minutes I see the latter search term, but not the former, under site search.
Plugin Author ILLID
(@mihail-barinov)

5 years, 6 months ago
Ok, than one more thing. Please try to replace
```
if ( typeof gtag !== 'undefined' ) {
                            gtag('event', 'AWS search', {
                                'event_label': label,
                                'event_category': 'AWS Search Term'
                            });
                        }
```
with
```
if ( typeof gtag !== 'undefined' ) {
                            gtag('event', 'AWS search', {
                                'event_label': label,
                                'event_category': 'AWS Search Term'
                            });
 gtag('event', 'page_view', {
                                page_title: 'AWS search',
                                page_path: '/?s=' + encodeURIComponent( 'ajax-search:' + label ),
                                send_to: '<GA_MEASUREMENT_ID>'
                            })
                        }
```
please replace <GA_MEASUREMENT_ID> with the proper gtag value
Thread Starter timmyfox
(@timmyfox)

5 years, 6 months ago

Still nope 🙁

I put my “UA-” code for the gtag value and the behavior is still the same as before.

Thread Starter timmyfox
(@timmyfox)

5 years, 6 months ago

Anything else I could try?

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