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How to Track User ID In Google Analytics?

If you are running a website where you have registered users who are your recurring visitors, you probably want to track their user IDs to know more about their stats.

You can enable the User ID tracking inside the Analytify. To do so let’s walk  through the given steps to enable User ID tracking:

  1. Go to Analytify>Settings>Advanced
  2. Inside the Advanced look for Track User ID
  3. After enabling the Track User ID, click on save changes

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How to enable the User ID tracking inside Google Analytics

Follow the given steps to enable the User ID tracking inside Google Analytics.

  1. Login into your Google Analytics account and select the website where you want to enable the User ID tracking feature.

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2. After selecting the website where you want to enable the User ID tracking now click on Admin

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3. Now Click on the Tracking Info in the property column and click on the sub-menu User-ID in Tracking Info.

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4. After clicking on the User-ID you will be taken to the next page, where you have to accept the privacy policy by toggling the ON-OFF button to ON and then click on the next step button

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5. Next step you don’t need to do any action, just click on the Next step button

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6. In the next step just click on Create Button to start creating the view to see your User ID tracking.

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7. This is the final step to create your view. Here you can mention your property type Web or Mobile App,  and write the name of the reporting view and then click on the Create View.

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You have successfully created the view to see User ID tracking.  you can see this view by going into admin again and select the User ID View from the Dropdown.

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In order to see your User ID tracking data you need to first select the User ID View from the Dropdown and then go to Audience >User Explorer.

Note: Inside the User Explorer, the data will start appearing after 24 hours, after creating the view.

 

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Note: In order to map the User ID inside the Google Analytics with your WordPress User ID’s and their usernames you can log in to your WordPress Dashboard and go to the User’s section, inside the user’s section you can see all the  different users you can hover your mouse on the edit button to see their IDs

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That’s how you can easily enable and track User ID in Google analytics. Check our guide on how to enable the page scroll depth inside the Analytify.

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