Event Tester - View Results tab

In the View Results tab, you can view the results of your configured test and filter the display that is based on the available options.

  • Results are displayed in alphabetical order by name.
  • Results for step attributes and events are also displayed.

You can view the results that are based on these options:

  • Event/Hit Attribute - Results are displayed by the event or hit attribute name. Hit and URL information is available when you expand a specific event or hit attribute. .
    • By default, results in Event/Hit Attribute order are displayed sorted by the event or hit attribute label for the included objects.
    • To group events and hit attributes according to their labels, select the View by Labels check box.
    • This option is not available when displaying by Hit/URL.
  • Hit/URL - Results are displayed by the hit number and URL of the hit on which events or hit attributes occurred. Event and hit attribute information is available when you expand a specific hit/URL node.
  • By default, the Event Tester displays all events and hit attributes that were selected for inclusion and that occurred in the session. To hide objects that registered zero counts in the session, clear the Include Zero-Count Items check box.
  • By default, the Event Tester displays only the occurrences for which values are recorded. To expand the display to all occurrences of events that occurred in the session, clear the Limit Event Results to Tracked Occurrence check box.
  • To expand the display tree to show all nodes, click Expand All. To collapse the display tree, click Collapse All.
  • If an entry in the results is too long to display, you may move the mouse over the item to display the full result string in the tooltip.

Notes on Events

Note: Numeric values in the Event Tester are displayed as the strings were recorded by the Canister. Display formatting, including localized decimal and currency indicators, is not applied.
Note: When a session discard event is detected in the Canister, the session is marked for discarding, and no subsequent events in the session are evaluated. In the Event Tester, however, sessions are not discarded, so events that occur in a session after a session discard event are reported in the Event Tester.

Event/Hit results

When you display the results by Event/Hit Attribute, the following general structure is applied:

  • Following assumes you are viewing by label.

+ Events
  + CountOfOccurrences - EventLabel1
    + CountOfOccurrences - Event1
      + HitNumber1 - URL1
        + ReportGroup1Name (if defined)
          + Dimension1Name
            + Value: Dimension1Value
          + Dimension2Name (if defined)
            + Value: Dimension2Value
        + ReportGroup2Name
      + HitNumber2 - URL2
    + CountOfOccurrences - Event2
  + CountOfOccurrences - EventLabel2
+ Hit Attributes
  + CountOfOccurrences - HitAttributeLabel1
    + CountOfOccurrences - HitAttribute1
      + HitNumber1 - URL1
        + Match Count: NumberOfMatchesInHit
        + Match Value 1: MatchValueForMatch1
        + Match Value 2: MatchValueForMatch2 (if present)
      + HitNumber2 - URL2
    + CountOfOccurrences - HitAttribute2
  + CountOfOccurrences - HitAttributeLabel2

Hit/URL Results

When you display the results by Hit/URL Attribute, the following general structure is applied:

Note: These results are not displayed by page. For example, in Replay you can display session data by page. In the Event Tester, the results are displayed by the hit on which they occurred, which may be different.

+ EventCount1 - HitAttributeCount1 HitNumber1 - URL1
  + Events
    + EventDisplayName1
        + ReportGroup1Name (if defined)
          + Dimension1Name
            + Value: Dimension1Value
          + Dimension2Name (if defined)
            + Value: Dimension2Value
        + ReportGroup2Name
    + EventDisplayName2
  + Hit Attributes
    + HitAttribute1
      + Match Count: NumberOfMatchesInHit
      + Match Value 1: MatchValueForMatch1
      + Match Value 2: MatchValueForMatch2 (if present)
    + HitAttribute2
+ EventCount2 - HitAttributeCount2 HitNumber2 - URL2

Limit results to Tracked Occurrences

An event can fire multiple times in a session. In the event definition, you can use the Tracked Event Occurrence setting to define the occurrences that can be reported in Portal reports or can be referenced as building block events.

  • The occurrences for an event are configured by the Track setting in the Event Summary for the event definition. S

When the Limit Results to Tracked Occurrences is selected, only the recorded instances of the events included in the test are displayed in the View Results tab.

Next steps

Depending on the results, you may want to do one of the following:

  • Retest with a different session.
  • Change events that are displayed in the test. The test does not need to be rerun. .
  • Change hit attributes that are displayed in the test. The test does not need to be rerun.
  • Modify event or hit attribute definitions:.