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Google Analytics plugin for Angulartics
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Support for social interactions? #94

Closed otravers closed 7 years ago

otravers commented 7 years ago

Aside from pageviews and events, GA has a syntax specifically for "social interactions": https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/social-interactions

In GA code: ga('send', 'social', [socialNetwork], [socialAction], [socialTarget], [fieldsObject]);

How is this supported by Angulartics? I search the doc and respository and couldn't find any mention of it.

DanWilkerson commented 7 years ago

We're really just a plugin for Angulartics, not so much a Google Analytics-specific lib. To that end, Angulartics doesn't have a trackSocial method (and I suspect that we probably won't, as it is GA specific AFAIK).

As a consultant who works with Google Analytics every day, I'd recommend that you don't use the social interaction hit type at all, and instead use events and pass social data that way. That's what I do with all of my clients, the reason being that social interactions cannot be used for goals, and many of the Social reports have been sunset in recent months. Events provide the same data and functionality, and (handily) you can track them using the trackEvent method.

otravers commented 7 years ago

Thanks Dan for the quick reply and the good work you guys are doing at Luna. Up to now I've always used events for social tracking, for some reason I hadn't paid attention to the social interaction thing in GA. Bumped into it today while reviewing some documentation and I thought I might have missed something.