Goals

First of all, you need to understand the concept of a Goal. A Goal is something that you want to track that the already existing analytics are not tracking—anything from a button click, downloads, specific page view, like a thank-you page after a checkout...etc.

Pageview Goal

A Pageview Goal is easy to set up. The conversion of the Goal occurs when a visitor views the specified page.

These are userful when tracking marketing campaigns. Create a Goal for each marketing campaign and track their results separately.

Custom Goal

Custom Goals will require some extra code implemented to the tracked website, which is specified when you create a new Goal from the dashboard.

A Custom Goal is mainly used for when you want to track a specific event that happens on your website, which can't be tracked with the Pageview method.

Some examples of where Custom Goals will shine are:

• Tracking clicks on external links
• Tracking more advanced form submissions
• Tracking clicks on specific parts of your pages

Here is what a javascript snippet would look like for Goal tracking:

analytics.goal('my-goal');

When this code is triggered on the specified page, the Goal conversion is tracked.