Is there any way to extract the visitors flow of a website using Qvsource?
I want to see all the movement between the different steps, the main problem is that I can't identify the direction of the flow (if a user goes back to a previous page or goes forward).
I enter in Google Analytics Query Explorer 2 in order to build the query and I see some page tracking dimensions that seems to be interesting but don't work as I want, for example:
ga:landingPagePath: is the first page that the user visited
ga:previousPagePath: its value is always '(entrance)'
ga:nextPagePath: returns also the first page that the user visited
ga:secondPagePath: returns the second page the user visited
I expected to extract all the flow using the first three dimensions but it doesn't work, the max step I get is the second page,
Anyone knows what I'm doing wrong or has another solution??
David - I did something similar in my previous company. Are you talking about the Page Flow in GA right? I had used the Funnel chart which mimics the Page Flow chart in GA. Please let me know if this is what you need...
Like I said earlier this may not be 100% accurate solution but what we did is we used ga:exitPagePath to track the last page. And we knew the website page life cycle, so we had a mapping table defining the page path and the hierchary. Then I had used the mapping load to define where the user dropped and tagged the user's last visited page as {1,2,3,4,5...}. Finally then we used the Funnel Chart to show how users dropped off from the website. These numbers are almost matching with the GA Chart but they had something else included as well.
