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It’s Vue and Nuxt. I wanted to display the result when user click on the CTA for a better user experience but didn’t realise it would skew the page views.

I guess I could trigger a page view event whenever someone click on the CTA to display result for the sake of bumping up the page views.

But not sure if there’s a better way to measure growth for the site.

Thanks for the input. Nice project by the way.

In your project, you monitor the events to analyse the usage and as for page views, unique users is the important metric to track?

@yuyu To be honest, I'm not actually paying too much attention to my analytics. I've just started sharing the project and even sign ups are limited so I can control the usage by just checking the application database. I have a few events in the public pages just to know how many people try the public demo and things like that, but I dont analyse them that much.

But yeah, I think a nice way to do it would be to use events to analyse the usage and use the page views just to track unique users. Another option would be to create specific events in a different categories for your public pages and the private/app pages. That way you track everything with events. Let me know what option you use and how it works for you

Good luck ✌

Yep, you can send custom events via Google Analytics (https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/events). Although, something like https://mixpanel.com/ might be a better fit for tracking users and their actions.

@gera @uf4no thanks for the reply. I’ve been tracking custom events on the site.

I’m interested to understand what metric is more important for SPA.

Should I focus on increasing the events/activity on the site? Or should I focus on increasing the number unique users on the site?

Would low number of users + high number of events/activities on the site be better than high number of users + low number of activities?

@yuyu yeah, I'd say first focus on churn rate and engagement. If you have poor retention but you bring new users to the site - then you'll be wasting efforts.

Also, check with your users - maybe there is a segment with very high engagement level, bringing these users won't hurt.

I quite liked this process Superhuman app used to find product market fit https://firstround.com/review/how-superhuman-built-an-engine-to-find-product-market-fit/. Haven't tried it myself though, but maybe you'll find it useful.

@gera that's a valid point you brought up and kinda clear the confusion I have when looking at the metric.

Nice article. Thanks for sharing that, will check it out.

I’m already sending events with Google tags manager. My question is more on which metrics is more important to measure growth.

Does events have more weight compared to page views? Or would increasing active user be a better metric to measure growth for an SPA.

@yuyu Honestly, I am also doing this for the first time so, I don't know the right answer. But let me tell you, With events I can track which feature is being more used in my app. With page views, I can only get a rough idea. In fact, I found page views aren't a great metric for an SPA.

@vaibhav that’s an interesting way to think and I completely agree with you. I shouldn’t focus too much on page view with SPA 😅

Yup, I'm tracking the events on the site.

Thanks for the heads up. I missed that part out when switching to a new domain.