Title: Javascript/Google Analytics Help?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Javascript/Google Analytics Help?

 *  [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascriptgoogle-analytics-help/)
 * Hey gang – here’s an interesting puzzle:
 * I’ve upgraded to Universal Analytics.
 * What I want to be able to do now is track traffic to my site according to the
   author of each post, the category of each post, and the tags that each post is
   tagged with.
 * In other words – show me data for all posts tagged “foo”. In wordpress, all this
   information is already readily visible in meta tags on each page.
 * There is something called “Custom Dimensions” that seems to be designed for this.
   When you create a custom dimension in GA it gives you some code that looks like
   this:
 * var dimensionValue = ‘SOME_DIMENSION_VALUE’;
    ga(‘set’, ‘dimension1’, dimensionValue);
 * So…
 * Question #1 – Lets say I’m trying to track Authors. I’m guessing the code should
   look something like this:
 * var Author = ‘Mr. Foo’;
    ga(‘set’, ‘dimension1’, Author);
 * So the question is – how do I populate “Mr. Foo” with the actual author of the
   page? How do I tell Google to ignore this if there is no author (like if it’s
   the front page?)
 * Question #2 – What happens when I try to track something like category or tag
   and a post might have dozens of tags?
 * Any help to solving this greatly appreciated! I’ve been on this for 2 days and
   have not found a single tutorial that even comes close. I swear I’ll write one
   if someone can help me get this done…

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