Event Reference (v1) / Page Events
Page View / page_view
Measures when a user visits a page on your website.
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- Name
- Event Name Required
- Value
- event: page_view
Content Properties
These properties are mostly applicable to page_* or content_* events. However, they can be used in other appropriate situations.
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- Name
- Publish Year Optional
- Type
- publish_year: string
- Description
The year the content was published. YYYY format.
- E.g.
2016
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- Name
- Publish Month Optional
- Type
- publish_month: string
- Description
The month the content was published. MM format.
- E.g.
05
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- Name
- Publish Day Optional
- Type
- publish_day: string
- Description
The day the content was published. DD format.
- E.g.
04
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- Name
- Content Name Optional
- Type
- content_name: string
- Description
The name of the content. Ideally fed from a CMS - this is not meant to be the
<title>of the page, but the name of the content itself which is often more useful for analysis.- E.g.
The Ultimate Guide to Google Analytics 4
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- Name
- Content Author Optional
- Type
- content_author: string
- Description
The author of the content.
- E.g.
Derek Cavaliero
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- Name
- Content Group Optional
- Type
- content_group: string
- Description
Used for aggregate analysis of content that is of a common cohort. For example, all blog posts could be grouped under
blog.- E.g.
blog
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- Name
- Content Type Optional
- Type
- content_type: string
- Description
Similar to
content_group, but more specific. For example, a blog post could have acontent_groupofblogand acontent_typeofguide.- E.g.
guide
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- Name
- Content Word Count Optional
- Type
- content_word_count: integer
- Description
The approximate number of words that make up the
<main>or body of the page. This is generally provided by a CMS that has direct access to the underlying content structure to process and expose the word count programatically.- E.g.
500