Implementing view-based page rankings in Google Analytics

To implement a ranking based on the number of page views in Google Analytics (GA), you need to do the following:

1. Integrate GA with Kuroco from the admin panel
2. Set the custom dimensions
3. Embed Google tags on the front-end site
4. Set up an additional field for page views in your content structure
5. Set the number of page views retrieved as content data
6. Create a list API to retrieve the views of 10 pages in descending order for ranking generation

1. Integrate GA with Kuroco from the admin panel

See Tutorial: How to link Google Analytics for a detailed guide.

In addition to the above settings, "Google Analytics Reporting API" must be enabled.

2. Set the custom dimensions

Set either content ID or slug as a custom dimension value, based on your front-end configurations. Either option is fine, since both are used to specify the viewed content.

Example using slug:

3. Embed Google tags on the front-end site

See Tutorial: How to link Google Analytics for a detailed guide on how to configure the front-end.　

In this tutorial, we will only retrieve the page views for the content pages we want to rank. Therefore, we will send the page_view event as a mounted embedding:

  'google-gtag': {
    id: 'UA-XXXXXXXXX',
    send_page_view: false
  },

if (process.client) {
    const slug = // Retrieve slug from page URL, etc.
    this.$gtag('event', 'page_view', {
        'dimension1': slug
    })
}

Now, verify the front-end display. If the page_view event has been sent correctly, you should be able to check the number of page views by specifying the secondary dimension in the GA console as shown below:

4. Set up an additional field for page views in your content structure

*Make sure you select [Counter] as the field type. *The identifier value entered here will be used when setting the page views in the contents module.

5. Set the number of page views retrieved as content data

Create a batch process as follows to execute SmartyPlugin and set the page views retrieved as content data:

{*Retrieve page view count from GA and set it in the counter*}
{googleanalytics var=result
update_column_slug="pv"
update_target_dimension="ga:dimension1"
updated_topics_ids='updated_topics_ids'
topics_group_id=1}{*Enter the target content structure ID as the topics_group_id*}

{*Reflects data from the counter in the contents data*}
{assign_array var=ext_data values=''}
{assign var=ext_data.topics_ids values=$updated_topics_ids}
{batch module='topics' name='sync_counter' ext_data=$ext_data}

Available parameters

The following parameters are available for the GA plugin:

6. Create a list API to retrieve the views of 10 pages in descending order for ranking generation