Custom Visitor Names
Get to know the people on your website. By double clicking any Visitor ID in GoSquared, you can label each visitor with a name that means something to you or your team.
Even better, if your site already has a user system in place, you can enable GoSquared to show the names of your users whenever they're signed in.
Setting up automatic visitor naming
Automatic visitor naming is really easy. Just get your scripts to insert the user identifier (this could be a username or an email address for example) for logged-in users inside the following snippet of javascript, which should be placed in your tracking code after the definition of GoSquared.acct:
GoSquared.UserName = "USER_IDENTIFIER";
So, your tracking code would look something like:
<script type="text/javascript">
var GoSquared={};
GoSquared.acct = "GSN-1234567-A";
GoSquared.UserName = "USER_IDENTIFIER";
(function(w){
... etc ...
})(window);
</script>
Remember to replace USER_IDENTIFIER with the username/email/name/your label of choice for the signed in user.
GoSquared will then start automatically labelling your users so you can tell who's doing what! This functionality is not limited to just naming your signed in users. You could use it for many identification purposes - for example, labelling users who have paid for a certain product on your site, or users who have acheived certain browsing goals. This feature can be very powerful when used to full effect, so use your imagination!
Tagging visitors with more properties
You can tag your visitors with extra info that can be used to better understand each visitor on your site - beyond just browser based data.
For example, you can assign the shopping cart value to any visitor online right now through your ecommerce store's backend.
GoSquared.Visitor = {
'Cart Value':"24.99",
'Items in Cart':"2"
};
You can see another example of this in action if you "Inspect Element" on any page on the GoSquared site while signed in to your GoSquared account.