Visitor always as new active user about universal-analytics

[dwest-ee]

I am also seeing this. Every pageview is tracked as a new active user.

visitor.pageview(req.url, req.cookies.uuid).send();

[jtillmann]

@cedriking I'm a bit confused by the usage of local storage in your code — we are talking server-side code here. Correct? Apart from that, how does your uuid look like exactly?

@dwest-ee I believe you are using the UUID at the wrong place. It is not the second argument to the pageview method, but the second argument to the uamethod/the constructor.

visitor = ua('UA-XXXXX-Y', req.cookies.uuid);
visitor.pageview(req.url).send()

What about my error? mine is in the right place :) thanks for the help.

[jtillmann]

That's why my other two questions were meant for you :)

Oh didnt noticed that :P I'm using node-webkit, so yes its node but my app is frontend not backend, so the clientID is always for example: c3576400-71d3-11e4-9365-415cca89d494 because of the localstorage, it's stored there, so everytime I open the app, Google Adsense should get that I'm that same userID.

Everything else is working, but the sessions in google analytics, last week I've got 300+ active users, can't be, its just me :P

[dwest-ee]

@jtillmann Doh! Thank you for your very prompt response :-)

Does someone has experienced my problem and can help me with this?
Thank you I appreciate it ^_^

[jtillmann]

First of all, could you check if the cid parameter is correctly sent and remains the same? (Either using debug mode or by analyzing the arguments provided to the callback when using the other way to send the request)

Hello :)
I've tested with debug and It sending the correct UID

[universal-analytics] Enqueued event ({"ec":"Device info","ea":"Version","el":"0.0.1","v":"1","tid":"UA-XXXX-Y","cid":"c3576400-71d3-11e4-9365-415cca89d494","t":"event"}) 

[jtillmann]

It looks like yours is not a UUID v4 which Google Analytics requires. Could this be the reason it is ignored?

I had installed node-uuid but used it the wrong way, the problem seems to be solved, thank you very much! the UUID was wrong, that was the problem 👍