We first realized the issue when Khalid Alfiafi, a board member of SDUGS and the first published author on our site, asked me about the statistics for his publication and I told him “4 views but I don’t understand why?”.

That was impossible because many have had told Khalid that they downloaded and studied it for their clinical and theoretical exams.

The Index page, which contains all the publications, received a great amount of views yet the publications themselves didn’t. As if people just viewed what we have published but never downloaded them.

Basically all learning resources are put together in an Index page and each of them is in a separate subpage. Whenever someone clicks on any learning resource; instead of going to the subpage, the content of the subpage is pulled into the Index thus google analytics is not triggered for subpages which means we don’t get statistics for each learning resource.

Luckily we found a solution that didn’t involve changing the design. A freelance user experience consultant shares on his blog the solution. It was a code he made that we injected (just a fancy way to say “copy paste”) into the settings of our Squarespace advanced settings.

Currently our Google Analytics settings are set and with no issues (Hopefully it remains so); however, we don’t know how many views each of our first three publications received in the period from 24/4/2015 – 25/7/2015. We only know how many views they all received collectively.

Author: Yazan Aljohani