Page Schema

The page call lets you record whenever a user sees a page of your website, along with any optional properties about the page. Calling page or screen the Website Tag or HTTP API is the first step to integrating and using Intilery.

Note: In analytics.js a page call is included in the snippet by default just after analytics.load. We do that because you must call this method at least once per page load. However, you can choose to add an optional name or properties to the default call, or call it multiple times if you have a single-page application.

Here’s the payload of a typical page call with most common fields removed:

{  "type": "page",  "name": "Home",  "properties": {    "title": "Welcome | Initech",    "url": "http://www.example.com"  }}

And here’s the corresponding Javascript event that would generate the above payload. If you’re using Intilery's Javascript library, the page name and URL are automatically gathered and passed as properties into the event payload:

analytics.page("Home");

Beyond the common fields, the page call takes the following fields:

Field		Type	Description
name	optional	String	Name of the page For example, most sites have a “Signup” page that can be useful to tag, so you can see users as they move through your funnel.
properties	optional	Object	Free-form dictionary of properties of the page, like url and referrer See the Properties field docs for a list of reserved property names.

Example

Here’s a complete example of a page call:

{  "anonymousId": "507f191e810c19729de860ea",  "channel": "browser",  "context": {    "ip": "8.8.8.8",    "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.115 Safari/537.36"  },  "integrations": {    "All": true,    "Mixpanel": false,    "Salesforce": false  },  "messageId": "022bb90c-bbac-11e4-8dfc-aa07a5b093db",  "name": "Home",  "properties": {    "title": "Welcome | Initech",    "url": "http://www.example.com"  },  "receivedAt": "2015-02-23T22:28:55.387Z",  "sentAt": "2015-02-23T22:28:55.111Z",  "timestamp": "2015-02-23T22:28:55.111Z",  "type": "page",  "userId": "97980cfea0067",  "version": "1.1"}

Identities

The User ID is a unique identifier for the user performing the actions. Check out the User ID docs for more detail.

The Anonymous ID can be any pseudo-unique identifier, for cases where you don’t know who the user is, but you still want to tie them to an event. Check out the Anonymous ID docs for more detail.

Note: In our browser and mobile libraries a User ID is automatically added from the state stored by a previous identify call, so you do not need to add it yourself. They will also automatically handle Anonymous ID’s under the covers.

Properties

Properties are extra pieces of information that describe the page. They can be anything you want.

We’ve reserved some properties that have semantic meanings, and we handle them in special ways. For example, we always expect path to be the URL path of a page, and referrer to be the URL of the previous page.

You should only use reserved properties for their intended meaning.

Reserved properties we have standardized:

Property	Type	Description
name	String	Name of the page. This is reserved for future use.
path	String	Path portion of the URL of the page, which defaults to location.pathname from the DOM API.
referrer	String	Full URL of the previous page. Equivalent to document.referrer from the DOM API.
search	String	Query string portion of the URL of the page. Equivalent to location.search from the DOM API.
title	String	Title of the page. Equivalent to document.title from the DOM API.
url	String	Full URL of the page. First we look for the canonical url. If the canonical url is not provided, we use location.href from the DOM API.
keywords	Array[String]	A list/array of keywords describing the content of the page. The keywords would most likely be the same as, or similar to, the keywords you would find in an html meta tag for SEO purposes. This property is mainly used by content publishers that rely heavily on pageview tracking. This is not automatically collected.

Note: In analytics.js we automatically send the following properties: title, path, url, referrer, and search.