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[kwaterman]

Hi There
Brand new member to the forums here posting for the first time - hoping someone has some experience with this as I've spent a lot of time banging my head against this particular wall.

I'd like to be able to track internal site search terms within Google Analytics, but so far am having no luck. It looks like the analytics data is looking for a particular query parameter like a "q" or "s", but of course the search results URL doesn't show this type of thing - only http://www.domainname.com/search.php?mode=search&page=1". Does anyone know what changes I'd need to make, and to which template files? I have the latest Asynch GA code already in place.

Thanks very much!
Kathy

[Jayk]

Hi Kathy,

Did you ever figure this one out?

Thanks,
Jason

[Acquamarina]

Found this through another post. The code is very different on 4.4.4. Will it work?

http://www.squeezejuicemarketing.com/blog/capture-site-search-terms-in-x-cart-w-google-analytics/

[qualiteam]

Originally Posted by Acquamarina

Found this through another post. The code is very different on 4.4.4. Will it work?

http://www.squeezejuicemarketing.com/blog/capture-site-search-terms-in-x-cart-w-google-analytics/

For 4.4.x you can try altering the "skin/common_files/modules/Google_Analytics/ga_code.tpl" template and replace this code:

pageTracker._trackPageview();

with this:

{if $main eq "search"}
  searchterms='{$search_prefilled.substring|escape}';
  searchterms=searchterms.toLowerCase().replace(/\s/g,'+');
  pageTracker._trackPageview('/search?q='+searchterms);
{else}
  pageTracker._trackPageview();
{/if}

The second step (from the reported instructions) is still required.

[Acquamarina]

Thanks, Alex, I'll do the changes and report back tomorrow.

[Acquamarina]

Forgot to ask - the query parameter is "q", as in the fix from squeezejuice?

[qualiteam]

Originally Posted by Acquamarina

Forgot to ask - the query parameter is "q", as in the fix from squeezejuice?

Yes

[Nacho]

Thanks Alex,

What about if we are using GA Async mode?

What should be the change in this case?

Regards,

Nacho.

[qualiteam]

The regular async script looks like this:

<script type="text/javascript">

  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

  (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
  })();

</script>

I suppose you use 4.0.x, thus in skin1/customer/home.tpl before the Google tracking code appears, add this:

{if $main eq "search"}
  {assign var="searchterms" value=$search_prefilled.substring|escape};
{/if}

Change the tracking code like this:

<script type="text/javascript">

  searchterms = '{$searchterms}'.toLowerCase().replace(/\s/g,'+');

  var _gaq = _gaq || [];
  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);
  if (searchterms) {
    _gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/search?q='+searchterms]);
  }
  else {
    _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
  }

  (function() {
    var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
    ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
  })();

</script>

[Nacho]

Thanks Alex, but my question was for x-cart version 4.4.5