For websites that have an authentication method, login and signup tracking are critical to have implemented correctly in Google Analytics. Often, I see businesses get these metrics incorrect. They may accidentally pass the data on submit instead of validation, forget to track failed submissions, or worse yet implement a naming convention that is not human readable. Having performed hundreds of Google Analytics audits and implementations I would like to share my best practices for tracking and naming conventions for Login and Signup metrics. Once you have these correctly implemented you can monitor your authentication forms to determine when things go awry, capture lost signups through the GA/AdWords Remarketing integration, and scale with future login/signup events such as form field tracking.

I will share with you my ideal Signup/Login report and also provide code for you to pass to your developers for either Google Tag Manager or Universal Analytics.
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