Extracting visit count from cookie

Data collection and tags
1

I’m trying to set up a pop up in tag manager so that it only fires when a certain number of visits have been received, or indeed a number of sessions.

I know that visits are logged in the visit cookie, and session count is recorded as visitor_session_number, however I’m having difficulty working out how to actually surface those pieces of information to use in a trigger condition.

It seems this data is already being stored and recorded so does it need to be duplicated into a variable? Would i then use trackEvent to push the information into the variable?

Being able to load a pop up based on number of visits seems like it would be a common requirement, but struggling to find much information on how you would do that.

Thanks for your help,

David

2

Hi. The problem here is that this data is loaded asynchronously. So, most likely won’t be available for triggers, unless you write a code that waits for the value. Other option is to extract it directly from cookie (docs are available here).

Here some code sample from my quick tests:

<script>
var visitorInfo;
var _paq = _paq || [];  
_paq.push([ function () { visitorInfo = this.getVisitorInfo(); }]);
console.log(visitorInfo[3]);
</script>

This code gets the no. of visits from the cookie. It resolves when the tag is loaded on “page load”.