Creating a calculated metric with getPercentPageViewed value

Question

Hi There!I'm using the getPercentPageViewed plug-in. I'm writing the value to a prop.The values for any page come in as 100, 99, 98 and so on. We have a lot of long-scrolling pages on our site.I'm hoping to build a calculated metric, specifically get the AVG percent viewed for each page on my site. I've been trying to build a metric by using the MEAN function and then dropping in the prop. It says that I need to add a metric, but not quite sure what that means.Any guidance on how to do this? Thank you!Curtis

bjoern__koth · Accepted Answer

Hi @curtis_pond

the getPercentViewed values you are passing in as prop or eVar are custom dimensions, meaning text values and not numbers / metrics. That is why you cannot use props or eVars in your case.

this is also what you are seeing in the examples here https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/analytics/implementation/vars/plugins/getpercentpageviewed

what may be an alternative approach could be using classifications to create buckets of scroll depth e.g., 0-25%, 26-50%, 51-75%, >75%

These are the classification rule regexes I typically use for this

^(\d|1\d|2[0-5])$
^(2[6-9]|[34]\d|50)$
^(5[1-9]|6\d|7[0-5])$
^(7[6-9]|[89]\d|100)$

it will not generate averages, but good enough to draw conclusions from it.

Hope that helps

P.S. haven't tried dedicated event values e.g., event99=50 which will actually increase that metric by 50, which would theoretically create the base for a calculated metric you were initially looking for. Would be interesting to hear if anyone made this work

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