Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Work diary 11/29/2017 - all the click buttons traffic report

After Thanksgiving, my manager Josh said I would like to see all the click buttons traffic report on our websites through Google Analytics, for example, images click button, drop-down box click button, keyword search button, products button, anything you can click as a customer and please show me the data from July to now.

All the click buttons traffic report in Google Analytics belongs to Event Tracking. In the past three days, I cannot even remember how many times I messed around with Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager (GTM) and data studio. One problem is that I still haven't had the access to the backend to change the code (that might be easier at some point).  

At the beginning, everything went smoothly until I tried to get the images click traffic on the home page. I didn't understand why I could only get the percentage of the whole images click on the main page, but Josh would like to see the percentage of each image click. Then I started to search the tags, triggers in GTM to find the location of the images, then I realized the previous Google Analytics Expert working for this company, he combined all the images together in one folder. And that's the reason the report will only show the percentage of the whole images.

What should I do?? Separate them, one by one, into different tags following the style of the previous employee without breaking the whole design. And it took me a while to figure out the previous employee's settings' style😤

Cannot really remember how many times I tried in the past three days because I was non stop trying through data studio, but data studio cannot really show me all the buttons, only show me several important buttons report.

Then I tried to create custom reports through Google Analytics, of course, Event Tracking,  and then it showed me around 720 buttons, website links report, everything in details, and then I saw each image's URL and their percentage. That means I finally could check the data of each image. 

Josh is quite happy to see over 700 buttons data report and God bless me I didn't give up.

Thursday, November 9, 2017

My delusional dream






I showed this cover to my best friend "what do you think of this cover?" 
She said, "they become wealthy through technology". 
"And what else?" I asked her. 
She answered, "they change our lifestyle". 
And what else?

I said "have you noticed the title The founding fathers of Silicon Valley? One day, I will become one of the founding mothers of Silicon Valley. I let you know my delusional dream and I'm slowly on my way. If I could have this mindset while being a cashier while cleaning the toilet at a grocery store, you cannot predict where I will be in the next 10 years."