How to get URL parameters in JavaScript for pro Level

URL Parameters are also known as a Query String or URL Variable. A URL Parameter is a set of values appended to a URL preceded with a question mark.

Note: this video only for web worker.

Index:
00:00:00 - Intro.
00:00:20 - URL parameters.
00:00:38 - URL get Request.
00:04:28 - URL Hashtag.

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As well, you might want to collect more information from your marketing campaigns. You will have to expand past the five basic UTM Parameters to achieve this.

Let’s look at this from a data analytics perspective. Parsing a Query String using JavaScript dynamically passes values to Google Analytics. In turn, this captures more information for tracking performance which is easy to analyze when you leverage custom dimensions or content groupings.

Any values that live in the URL Parameter can get passed to a custom dimension or content grouping. Do this via the Google Tag Manager using its built-in URL Variable (the easy approach). Alternatively, you can collect and pass these values using a custom JavaScript implementation.

Further down I’ll cover parsing custom values from URL Parameters using GTM, but first let’s take a look at how the JavaScript get method works with URL Parameter values.