Comment to: Tracking Content Scrollers, Scanners & Readers in Google Analytics - Savio.no

Comment by: Eivind Savio

Eivind Savio — 01.05.2013 21:59:14

Thanks for your feedback Baptiste.

There are some hit limitations in Google Analytics.

Session limits: 500 hits per session.

Monthly limit: 10 million hits per month.

Source: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/limits-quotas

With that said, the 10 millions per month limit has never been executed by Google Analytics to my knowledge.

/ Eivind

Comment by: Baptiste Legrand

Baptiste Legrand — 30.04.2013 13:13:12

Hey ! That's an amazing contribution to the community you've made here. Thanks a million for that. You've just earned a loyal follower (and eager learner) for the years to come.

Just a quick question : as someone pointed out, the result of this tracking script will be a HUGE amount of new events in GA.

Won't it hit some kind of limitation ?

My website gets between 13 000 to 15 000 unique visitors a day, won't all these new events overload my free GA account ?

Should I be worried about that, before implementing this script ?

Comment by: Isreal Hartley

Isreal Hartley — 05.02.2013 22:04:43

You sir, need to write your own book! I was about to comment and ask/suggest you share the Excel document, but you already have.

Keep up the good work.

Isreal

Comment by: Eivind Savio

Eivind Savio — 03.02.2013 23:51:27

Thank you Jens.
Comments like this is highly appreciated.
/ Eivind

Comment by: Jens

Jens — 03.02.2013 22:47:11

Actually, for me it fires straight on page load, not after the user scrolled 150px.

So I modified the code like this (note "scrollStarted" variable):

var scrollStarted = false;
$(window).scroll(function () {
if ( scrollStarted ) { // Avoid starting processing on page load
if (timer) {
clearTimeout(timer);
}
// Use a buffer so we don't call trackLocation too often.
timer = setTimeout(trackLocation, callBackTime);
}
scrollStarted = true;
});

Comment by: Eivind Savio

Eivind Savio — 02.02.2013 22:28:11

Good question.
You have to scroll 150px before the script fires, so it shouldn't influence results.

/ Eivind

Comment by: Jens

Jens — 01.02.2013 04:27:16

I noticed that $(window).scroll() fires once on page load. Wouldn't this influence results?

There's a workaround here (bottom of page):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6452960/window-scroll-firing-on-page-load

Comment by: Eivind Savio

Eivind Savio — 02.12.2012 00:00:49

You can't control it. Event Value is based on your visitors time spent before they scroll, or how long time they use to scroll/read an article or scroll to bottom of the page measured in seconds.

If you don't want this information, remove tracking of Event Value.

Comment by: power

power — 01.12.2012 03:32:51

After add this script, My Event Value suddenly increased to 1 billion . How to control it?