Hello All.
I don't believe this capability exists today but I thought I'd ask just in case someone has figured this out.
Within the realm of implementing Adobe Analytics, it is traditional to use debuggers to spot check which beacon calls fire (and don't fire) when users flow through the user experience. During this effort its easy to catch situations where the wrong beacon call is firing and when beacon calls are double firing. Manually checking for these situations can be done but it takes time and can slow down the release cycles of the applications being released.
At my company we are having a hard time keep up with all the changes and updates to the agile development cycles so we are looking for more efficient ways of capturing implementations issues where the beacon calls are double firing.
One way of checking for double firing beacon calls is to use Page Reloads. Which would tell us if the same page name came in two s.t beacon calls in consecutive timestamps. This assumes that we don't have two screens with the same page name, which for us isn't always the case:
(For example, think about the home page single click log in scenario - home unathenticated click sign in and load home authenticated. same page
name on two consecutive s.t beacon calls OR think about a single page app where a click actually reloads a different version of the same page, without
IT help we can only track the first page load and the button click so we tag the button click as a s.t beacon with the same page name (with a different
attribute) to make sure we have page view continuity).
But forgetting these edge cases, Reloads could potentially be one way for us to check if a single page view beacon call fired twice.
But what about click tracking? There is no metric in adobe analytics for click tracking 'repeat' instances.
I know user flows in Analysis Workspace have the 'exclude repeat instance' which is great if you have a specific flow, but really doesn't work if we've trying to evaluate every button click and every page across the entire app/website.
So does anyone have a methodology that would allow us to use the data in adobe analytics to monitor and measure if our app is double firing beacon calls both on page load and click tracking beacons?