Track How Far Your Users Scroll in Piwik

General questions
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Hello Folks,

i got one question. Is there any way to track scrolling of users or when they left several pages.

It should be like this feature on Google: http://www.optimisationbeacon.com/analytics/track-how-far-your-users-scroll-in-google-analytics/

Thanks for your help!

Greets,
Markus

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If that feature doesn’t exist, you could imitate it with custom goals. You could make a script that fires a custom event for different lines in your HTML and track it with goals. It’s a bit of a workaround, so probably not worth it you have to add it to many different types of pages.

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I’ve added your suggestion in this issue: Content Tracking, Banner tracking: track impressions, Clicks on any piece of content · Issue #4996 · matomo-org/matomo · GitHub

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This is a really important feature in my opinion. I hope it will be implemented soon.

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When you can measure time spent at the page and scroll percentage you can use that as a proxy that the article has been read.

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Has there been any headway on this feature? For one page apps and sites it would be great to be able to track where the user has scrolled to determine how much they have interacted or read.

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+1 for this feature

check out why here:
http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/16063-page-scroll-depth-analytics.html

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I’ve added support for Piwik in ScrollDepth plugin, maybe it helps someone…

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Hi, do not Working :frowning: Juste “Scroll Depth - Percentage - 00% [1]” and nothing else.

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I also tried and first got the same result like you @DM13
Then I re-read the instructions on @RoDiSK website which sais place the event tracking code after the piwik code, changed it, not working yet.
Then I checked the website load behavior and checked that the scroll tracking script was merged into the merged scripts from the wordpress plugin “Autoptimize”. I put the script on the script exclude list of Autoptimize so that its not merged any more and now its working!

So check if your script is in the correct place and not merged by some performance plugins :wink:

By the way: I would love to see the scroll depth somewhere in Matomo core, but the solution @RoDiSK provides is a good start. Thank you!

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You can also setup your own scroll tracking with the matomo tag manager.

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