Manually sending data to Google Analytics

Question

I was wondering if I can send google analytics tracking data to google by sending custom URL requests. I assumed I could build my own URLs and fire a request to get events t

Answer 1

In addition to @pavel-morshenyuk answer, if you want to correlate the event to the user who actioned on it, the code below will map the request to the google client id.

 string clientId = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();

 if (Request != null && Request.Cookies != null && Request.Cookies.Get("_ga") != null && Request.Cookies.Get("_ga").Value != null)
 {
    clientId = Request.Cookies.Get("_ga").Value;
    clientId = clientId.Replace("GA1.2.", "");
    clientId = clientId.Replace("GA1.1.", "");
 }

note at some point, this may need to be tweaked if GA changes their internal cookie tracking.