@Josh_Uebergang Thanks for the reply and good to know that Google Tag Manager might be something to consider / try via the additional javascript section.
But I guess your suggestion that it might have something to do with the 2-minute cross-domain window will not be solved by using GTM right? It then only needs other instructions to implement it.
And regards to my earlier question (see below) I experienced that it was not as simple as adding the custom ‘linker’ code to the additional javascript section. But I understood in the articles that for the correct implementation you need some custom help from the other domain (so Shopify in this case) but they were not able to help they said. Or did I misunderstand and can I implement it completely on my side? In that case I just gonna dive deeper in it to better understand it.
Thanks in advance.
— earlier post —
@Josh_Uebergang Can I aks you for a short check of my understanding of the following:
- Chapter 5 of https://www.digitaldarts.com.au/google-analytics-shopify mentions that if possible you need to set-up something on the other domain.
- On https://www.simoahava.com/analytics/troubleshooting-cross-domain-tracking-in-google-analytics/ they explain with GTM, which is not possible to use because of my Shopify plan.
- On https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/linker I did some more research.
Is it as simple as adding below code to the ‘Additional scripts’ field in Shopify and replace destination.com by my own domain name? Since I can’t affect the Shopify payment (third party) workaround, I assume that can be ignored.
// Loads the Linker plugin
ga('require', 'linker');
// Instructs the Linker plugin to automatically add linker parameters
// to all links and forms pointing to the domain "destination.com".
ga('linker:autoLink', ['destination.com'], false, true);
Note: I will also test this, but if you might think this can ruin more than it helps I might remove it earlier than I have enough data.