Answers about tracking
Questions and answers from the Croct community about tracking.
Tagging every Croct event with our release version, is eventMetadata the right tool?
I tag everything we ship with the release version so regressions can be correlated with deploys. I want the same for Croct events: every event annotated with…
How much main-thread time does Croct event tracking add per page?
I am profiling INP regressions caused by third-party tags. Our current trace shows long tasks attributed to two analytics vendors, and I want to know where…
Server Components experiment: where does exposure tracking live without double counting?
Evaluating experiment variants in React Server Components and the exposure tracking question keeps resisting a clean answer. The shape of the problem: the…
How do I stop Croct from tracking anything until the user accepts our consent banner?
I am integrating Croct on a site that operates under German data protection requirements, behind a consent management platform. Our requirement is strict:…
Tracked page URLs include email addresses from campaign links, can I scrub them?
Marketing sends campaign links like /promo?email=user@example.com. Users land on those URLs. The auto-tracked page events carry the full URL, email included.…
Ad blockers are eating a chunk of our Shopify tracking, any first-party option?
I have been comparing event counts from our Shopify storefront against the server logs and there is a consistent gap, roughly 12 percent of sessions produce…
About 8 percent of sessions never send events, traced it to ad blockers
As the growth lead I reconciled our Croct session counts against raw server logs and found a consistent gap: roughly 8.2% of sessions in the logs never appear…
Track calls succeed but nothing shows in the dashboard, turned out the test transport was on
Writing this up partly to confirm my diagnosis and partly so the next person finds it. Timeline: Last Tuesday we deployed a release that included new CI…
How do I track a goalCompleted event when a user clicks the signup CTA?
Running an experiment on our signup page and the conversion goal should be the click on the main CTA button. React SPA with @croct/plug-react. Which hook…