Tracking User's Path

Will there ever be support for tracking a user’s path through a website? For example:

50 Customers visit the “Shopping Cart” page. Only 30 proceed to the “Checkout” page, and only 10 finish their order and get to the “Order Receipt” page. What would be nice is if we could track this path, showing the number of conversions as a line graph overlaid on top of one another (this would be a really good way to use the flash graph API you guys use, instead of just having the one blue line, you could graph multiple points using multiple colors, one line for each “page”). I know there are “Goals” and “Campaigns”, but I’m looking for more of a “Goal Path”, where it tracks when the user visits page A, followed by page B, etc.

I don’t know if it’ll be supported. (Are you volunteering to develop it or sponsor the development?) This has been previously requested. And we already have many feature requests queued up.

No, I unfortunately do not have the time to work on something as major as this, and, looking at some of the Piwik code, I’m not sure I would understand it very well… I know PHP, but not the OOP parts of it, and you guys seem to use classes very heavily, so I don’t think that would work out.

You guys should implement a feature suggestion site so that Piwik users can vote on the features they want the most, so you know which ones you should finish first. I’ll start a new thread for that, since it’s a separate idea.

extremely interested in such a feature as well.
Until now I was using a tiny plugin for my wordpress blogs available here h**p://082net.com/tag/wp-slimstat-ex/?orderby=modified that offers any feature I can possibly dream of, all on a local wordpress installation except it doesn’t have nice graphs.
its got visitor paths, drill downs, etc.
maybe have a look at its features for some inspiration :slight_smile:

Check the funnel analysis plugin in development: http://dev.piwik.org/trac/ticket/220

full ack - mouse tracking would be great

we have just released a new feature, “Page Transitions” which shows the path of a visitor from a given page, and where visitors click from there. It’s pretty awesome! Check it out: Clickpath analytics

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Will there ever be support for tracking a user’s path through a website? For example:

50 Customers visit the “Shopping Cart” page. Only 30 proceed to the “Checkout” page, and only 10 finish their order and get to the “Order Receipt” page. What would be nice is if we could track this path, showing the number of conversions as a line graph overlaid on top of one another (this would be a really good way to use the flash graph API you guys use, instead of just having the one blue line, you could graph multiple points using multiple colors, one line for each “page”). I know there are “Goals” and “Campaigns”, but I’m looking for more of a “Goal Path”, where it tracks when the user visits page A, followed by page B, etc.[/quote]

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We wanted the Browsing Path captured to a Dimension so we could tally those with the same paths. We implemented a solution for GTM and Ga and instead send the data to Matomo in a GTM HTML tag.

This is demonstrated here for GA.
https://gtm.tips/track-browsing-paths-gtm-ga-quick-dirty-solution/

We then place the following in an HTML tag that fires AFTER the Matomo JS tag.

_paq.push([‘trackEvent’, ‘Browsing Paths’, ‘{{Path Cookie}}’, ‘{{Click URL}}’]);
_paq_push([‘setCustomDimension’,2,’{{Path Cookie}}’]);