Question

I have a magento store and I am trying to track the progress of users at the checkout process.

I have the Onepage checkout enabled – which does some ajax stuff to essentially load 6 different steps in an accordion format. I would like to track each step with Google Analytics so i know whats putting the users off.. I found this link (http://magentoexpert.co.uk/2009/03/08/tracking-one-page-checkout-abandonment-with-google-analytics-properly/) to do so with Google Analytics – but it uses the old GA code. I am using the Async code which uses the gaq push.

So here is the code they recommend to use.

 gotoSection: function(section)
    {
        try {
            pageTracker._trackPageview('/checkout/' + section + '/');
        } catch(err) {}

        section = $('opc-'+section);
        section.addClassName('allow');
        this.accordion.openSection(section);
    },

To update this to the Asynchronous version, would i use:

 gotoSection: function(section)
    {
        try {
            _gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/checkout/', + section + '/']);
        } catch(err) {}

        section = $('opc-'+section);
        section.addClassName('allow');
        this.accordion.openSection(section);
    },

Do i need the catch(err) ? What would be the full code – this doesn’t seem to work for me?

Answer 1

I believe that the Fooman GoogleAnalyticsPlus extension on MagentoConnect will do what you need. YMMV.