Squarespace Tips Archive

Here’s a lot of old hints, tips and opinions that may not be relevant any more.

A lot of it was written for Squarespace 7 or earlier.

Scripting & Styling, SEO & SEM Colin Irwin Scripting & Styling, SEO & SEM Colin Irwin

Using Google Analytics to Measure Visitor Engagement in Squarespace websites

I wanted to understand how people are engaging with my Squarespace website so I performed a test to measure visitor engagement and to work out whether single page “bouncing” visitors are engaging with the site at any level.  

The test results revealed that the vast majority of visitors interact and engage with the site, with only 12% not interacting at all. 

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Scripting & Styling, SEO & SEM Colin Irwin Scripting & Styling, SEO & SEM Colin Irwin

How to fix Squarespace Index page tracking problems

Squarespace Index pages don't trigger Google Analytics tracking for subpages loaded via Ajax.  This means you can't tell whether users are interacting with Index pages or just abandoning them. 

This article explains the problem and then demonstrates a custom script that enables this valuable analytics data to be tracked.

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