Google Analytics Brainstorming - Using unique course/page URLs to track page traffic from different sources

@pmo Do you think an approach like this could help GA NOT track some pages?  We have an EE platform, and one of our tenants has FUOU content (requires security clearances to view) and so we can’t have GA looking at any of those links. This has meant that none of our tenants can use GA since GA is only configured globally instead of by tenant (which is really should be).

@KMallette That’s an interesting idea but I’m not sure I have much input on it. You still have to add the google analytics code into the platform and so it would still log all that traffic. Were you thinking of anything specifically here that might help? 

Yeah @KMallette , even if you told GA to ignore certain directories/pages its code still runs, collects the data and then ignores so I doubt that would be allowed in the secure setup you describe.

@mark Would this be helpful to you at all? I recall you mentioning having difficulty with campaigns in GA in this thread.

@alekwo Do you have any thoughts about this idea? I’m trying to figure out if it’s a nothingburger or if there’s some meat here. My only concern is that it might water down some of your data but I’m not a GA wiz so I kind of wonder if there’s a workaround for that. 

My issue with GA was that it simply didn’t work with Docebo unless the user was already in an active session and clicked a GA link. In my use case, we were inserting GA tagged course URLs into a newsletter email sent by our Marketing department via a 3rd party (Pardot). To my surprise, Pardot kept the GA tagged links we provided intact. But when a typical learner clicks on one from within the newsletter, they are usually not in an active (i.e., authenticated) session in Docebo unless they just happened to have been logged in very recently. 

The result: they are redirected by Docebo to the sign in page, and along the way the Docebo app strips out the GA tags.