Hey James,

Thanks for the input on this, logging this into our issue tracker

Thanks Mark, appreciate your efforts as always Sir.

No problem James

Hi Mark, just wondering if this is now possible with the latest version of Easyblog.

Thanks,
James

Apologies I now see this is coming in EB 5.2 here https://stackideas.com/blog/easyblog52-progress-updates-part2 which is great work .Thanks

Hi James and Mark. It's great to hear that amp analytics was added in 5.2. Could you please explain what was actually added and what I have to do to get AMP data in analytics please?

Currently, My google search console is showing 50% more traffic that my analytics, so I'm guessing that my AMP visitors are not being reported in analytics, depite being on 5.2. I have analytics set up via google tag manager with no extra entry for amp. Just plain vanilla "universal analytics" tag in tag manager.

Should I deduce that I must add some extra tag to tag manager? If so, can you please explain to me as a child what was added to easyblog? Man I'm a total techie nerd but still so confused with this one :P

And above all, the most crucial item is sharing tracking ID between amp pages and normal pages. Is that working automatically or must it be set up? It is very important so that visitors are not counted twice if they enter via AMP and then click on a non AMP page or vice versa. If not set up, this would show as two sessions and mess up ad conversion metrics, for example.

Would it be possible for someone in the team to write up a very didactical tutorial, where these concepts are explained "as for a child" and how the solution should be set up? In a nutshell, many bloggers blog to make money so all traffic must be measured and conversion data puts bread on the table.

Analytics are probably the most important aspect of blogging, since traffic and conversions are our livelyhood. As easyblog is an addon component, it makes AMP tracking setup more complicated that for just plain joomla (or any other CMS).

I feel it is therefore critical for us to have easyblog specific tutorials that account for that and guide us through the whole process required for full website AMP analytics setup and then further describe the specific extra steps required by easyblog and everything blog related to function in unison.

If the whole process is not fully explained with any easyblog extra steps specifically pointed out, then it becomes incredibly complicated for non "analytics pros" to figure out any steps we need to add, change or remove to make the both the main site and the blog component to have full AMP and standard analytics functinoality without duplicated session IDs.

The article would be titled something like: Full analytics setup for "Joomla + Easyblog" including AMP tracking with goals, events and conversions and no duplicate session IDs".

It would include events, goals and conversion tracking explained specifically for easyblog entries. For example, it would showcase a setup for a website that writes seo blog posts full of affiliate links to infoproducts or amazon products and makes their living via comissions. The tutorial would be explained as for a child so that an avergage CMS webmaster could follow the steps and set it up.

I hope this seems a reasonable use of easyblog resources and therefore make sense as a petition. I find myself with a fantastic (truly fantastic) blogging software but without full support as a business moneymaking tool. And to be fair, you do provide great support, just I find myself without answers for this one and I find it to be crucial for business :P

Thanks!

Hello David,

This new feature which was added into 5.2 adds a new settings in the back end, https://take.ms/Exx2y . You can find this in Settings > Integrations > Google Analytics

Hi Mark, thanks for the screenshot but there's no tutorial. I have only love for you guys and I use joomla instead of wordpress just because of easyblog. So please believe that I'm not just causing trouble and that my request for a long tutorial is real and for important reasons.

All the documentations that I have found regarding setting up analytics is this: https://stackideas.com/docs/easyblog/administrators/configuration/setting-up-google-analytics

I find important questions are not addressed, which I listed in my previous post. And also the following ones, among others.

I use bullet points just to help with clarity:

- I doesn't actually explain any of the settings in Settings > Integrations > Google Analytics.

- It doesn't explain how tracking in this way will affect pages outside easyblog: it doesn't say if I also need to insert my analytics tracking code in my template in order to track pages outside easyblog or how this duplicate tracking will affect data.

- It doesn't explain how duplicate tracking ID for AMP sessions is resolved so that visitors aren't counted twice if they click through from an amp page to a normal page.

Thanks a lot and keep up your wonderful company.

Any news guys?

Hello David,

This is actually a feature request post in which our team doesn't monitor as we only monitor support requests. If you need help with this feature, I strongly suggest that you open a new ticket.

Anyhow, the analytics code that you add in the settings merely adds the analytics code when the page is rendered via AMP so that Google Analytics would be able to track it when a user views your AMP page through Google searches.