• Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Foliovision

Main navigation

  • Weblog
    • FV Player
    • WordPress
    • Video of the Week
    • Case Studies
    • Business
  • About
    • Testimonials
    • Meet the Team
    • We Support
    • Careers
    • Contact
    • Pricing
  • Products
  • Support
    • FV Player Docs
    • Pro Support
  • Login
  • Basket is empty
Affordable VAST/VPAID for Wordpress has arrived. Serve ads with your videos starting today!
    • Docs
      • Installation
      • Changelog
    • FAQ
    • Support
      • Free Support
      • Pro Support
    • PRO

    Using Google Analytics 4 with FV Player

    List of contents:

    • Introduction
    • Implementing the Tracking Code to FV Player
    • Getting right video names
    • Accessing the Statistical Data
      • Video play and percentages
      • Video Seconds Played
      • Video events on individual posts
      • Device and Geographical data
    • Creating Custom Reports

    Introduction

    Google Analytics is a great, free tool for tracking the performance of your website. It’s also a very useful platform for tracking the data about your videos.

    After 8 years of the Universal Analytics model, Google released a new model, called Google Analytics 4 in October of 2020. We too had to rework our custom data gathering, in order to bring our users a reliable and great way to view FV Player statistics in the new Google Analytics model.

    You can see how many times a video was played, how many seconds of the video a user watched, or where they left off watching. In addition to that, you can get the most out of it and see details such as the user’s platform, format or location and other data necessary to adjust the videos for your audience.

    This guide assumes that you already have:

    • Google Analytics account
    • Basic knowledge of using Google Analytics

    Implementing the Tracking Code to FV Player

    In your Google Analytics account, go to Admin -> Data Streams and click on your data stream. There you will see the Measurement ID.

    Measurement ID

    In your WordPress menu, go to wp-admin -> FV Player -> Settings -> Sitewide FV Player Defaults -> Google Analytics ID. Insert the Measurement ID and click save.

    Google Analytics in FV Player Settings

    You probably already have the Global Site Tag gtag.js on your site. If you don’t, there’s no need to worry, as FV Player tracking does not need it to function.

    Getting right video names

    Unlike the old Google Analytics the new Google Analytics 4 does not show the event labels by default. Because of that it’s not easy to see the video plays for each video. You need to define your own custom dimensions to see the actual video names. Here’s how it’s done:

    1. Go to Admin -> Custom Definitions in your Google Analytics 4 property.
    Click the cog wheel on the left and then “Custom definitions”
    1. Click “Create custom dimension”, fill in the details and click “Save”:
    Fill in the dimension details

    The “Event paremeter” should be video_title.

    Please note that you will not be able to access historical data as Google Analytics 4 will only start processing the Video Titles once the custom dimension is added.

    1. This is how your new custom dimension should look like in the overview:
    Video title custom dimension
    1. Now go to Reports -> Engagement -> Events and click the plus icon next to “Event name”. We add our new custom dimension into that table that way:
    Adding Video title to the report
    1. Once the Video title is added you can see the Video Play and other events for each video:
    Video Plays for each Video Title

    Accessing the Statistical Data

    FV Player tracks video playback via custom events. These can be found in Life Cycle -> Engagement -> Events. You can also access it via engagement overview.

    Video play and percentages

    The video play metric tracks the number of plays.

    After the tracking is triggered by a user playing the video, the next milestones marking the progress in a video are:

    • Video 25 Percent Played
    • Video 50 Percent Played
    • Video 75 Percent Played
    • Video 100 Percent Played

    Video Seconds Played

    While all the other FV Player metrics have the same Event count and Event value, Video Seconds Played is slightly different.

    Event count shows the number of videos in which the seconds of playback were counted. Event value shows the total number of seconds counted in all videos together.

    Detailed video event overview

    Video events on individual posts

    You can see how many times a video event was triggered on a particular post by going to Life cycle -> Engagement -> Pages and screens. Then, in the Event count, pick the desired event from the drop-down menu:

    Pages by Video Play event count

    Device and Demographic data

    You might want to see how many times an event occurs on a certain type of device or in a certain country. You can do this by setting the secondary dimension in the overview by clicking the plus button next to Event name dimension.

    Adding a secondary dimension

    You can pick various dimensions showing information about the user, their device, mode of acquisition, and more. In this view, you get to see a count of each event for each type of item from the second dimension. Below is the view for browser:

    Events by browser

    Another way to view data on demographics and technology, is to go to either Demographics -> Demographic details or Tech -> Tech details. There, pick the demographical or technical information you are interested in viewing and then in Event count set the desired event. The Video play event for Browser type is pictured below:

    Creating Custom Reports

    Custom reports allow you to keep an close eye on any parameters of your choosing.The report in this example focuses on video play event by page. Various other metrics let you compare and further analyze the data. For example, the page views metric lets you see how many of page/ post viewers did actually start the video.

    In the left hand menu, go to Library. Once there, click Create new report. You get to choose to either go according to a template, or start with a blank report.

    Creating a new custom report

    First add the primary dimension. You can add any number of dimensions and then switch between them. Once you picked the dimensions, click apply. In this example, the primary dimension is Page title and screen class. Then Add the metrics. Again, you can add any number of these. In this example, the metrics are Event Count (set to Video play event), Page view, Events per session and Conversions. Don’t forge t to click apply before existing. You can also pick the chart types.

    Custom report

    Reader Interactions

    Primary Sidebar

    Analytics

    1. Why FV Player?
    2. FAQ
    3. Creating and Managing Playlists
    4. Advanced features
    5. Video Security
    6. Troubleshooting
    7. Tools
    8. Analytics
      1. Playback Stats
      2. Google Analytics 4
      3. Google Universal Analytics
      4. Matomo Analytics
      5. User Stats
    9. Audio Player
    10. Live Streaming
    11. Download | Buy
    12. Getting Started
    13. Licensing and Account
    14. Setting Screens
    15. Video Hosting
    16. Video Membership, Pay Per View and eLearning
    17. Video Advertising
    18. FV Player VAST/VPAID
    19. Casting Options
    20. For Developers
    21. FV Player Demos
    22. Additional Services
    23. Legal

    Footer

    Our Plugins

    • FV WordPress Flowplayer
    • FV Thoughtful Comments
    • FV Simpler SEO
    • FV Antispam
    • FV Gravatar Cache
    • FV Testimonials

    Free Tools

    • Pandoc Online
    • Article spinner
    • WordPress Password Finder
    • Delete LinkedIn Account
    • Responsive Design Calculator
    Foliovision logo
    All materials © 2025 Foliovision s.r.o. | Panská 12 - 81101 Bratislava - Slovakia | info@foliovision.com
    • This Site Uses Cookies
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms of Service
    • Site Map
    • Contact
    • Tel. ‭+421 2/5292 0086‬

    We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website.

    You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in .

    Powered by  GDPR Cookie Compliance
    Privacy Overview

    This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

    Necessary Cookies

    Strictly Necessary Cookie allow you to log in and download your software or post to forums.

    We use the WordPress login cookie and the session cookie.

    If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.

    Support Cookies

    Foliovision.com uses self-hosted Rocket.chat and self-hosted Freescout support desk to provide support for FV Player users. These cookies allow our visitors to chat with us and/or submit support tickets.

    We are delighted to recommend self-hosted Rocket.chat and especially Freescout to other privacy-conscious independent publishers who would prefer to self-host support.

    Please enable Strictly Necessary Cookies first so that we can save your preferences!

    3rd Party Cookies

    This website uses Google Analytics and Statcounter to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, and the most popular pages.

    Keeping this cookie enabled helps us to improve our website.

    We reluctantly use Google Analytics as it helps us to test FV Player against popular Google Analytics features. Feel free to turn off these cookies if they make you feel uncomfortable.

    Statcounter is an independent Irish stats service which we have been using since the beginning of recorded time, sixteen years ago.

    Please enable Strictly Necessary Cookies first so that we can save your preferences!