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Best Practices for Tracking Multi-Level Navigation in Mixpanel

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Hello everyone, I'm pretty new to Mixpanel and tracking data (and so is our startup). We just been implementing it and we are fine-tuning our naming convention and the basic events we would like to track.

I would need help to answer this ➡️ 'What would be the best way or best-practices to track a multi-level navigation''. Is anyone has a similar usecase?

We want to understand how user navigate.
In our survey details, the first tab is alway implicitly ''seen'' by our user because it's where he's landing.

If we use events on click, we will miss this first tabs. Is that the right way to do it?
If we put the event trigger on the page loading; this seem to cause to many events. (Clicks on a specific survey + Page view)

Here's a screenshot that better explain our hierarchy. I dont know if it's clearly explained, but I would certainly appreciated any tips! Thank you for your help 🙏

5 comments

Andrew S.
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Not sure I follow exactly but I would record an explicit event for “initial_screen” or something that so you can explicitly measure initial screen views and then could use it in a flow to see starting at that initial screen event.
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Santi (.
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Sophie, my recommendation is always to start with the KPIs. Define the metrics you need/track/improve and from that create a tracking plan. These resources in the "guides" section are very useful: https://docs.mixpanel.com/guides/plan/tracking-strategy#creating-a-tracking-plan We have templates for tracking plans: Saas for example: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A5wm5MKzRfSOZfUfCAg8YpePiz8Jn3Ar_u8KBo5lD6g/edit?gid=1641519238#gid=1641519238
Sophie P.
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Thanks for the example! It's very helpfuI. I see you used values for the different ''entry point''. I think it could be better than what we were doing...We were using properties for each entry point like (Nav name, Page name, Tab name etc...) Which I think was bad. Event name : View report Event Property: Entry Point Property Value: Top Nav, Sub-Nav, Dashboard We were doing Event name : View Survey Event Property: Page Name, Top nav, Sub-nav ... Value : Name of the page, name of the top nav etc...
Andrew S.
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yeah, if the "property" you want to track is "where were they", make that the same with the value for the location. And you can then do another property then for "source_name" or something like that. Otherwise, you have to create a custom property that basically combines the three properties (page name, top nav, sub-nav) so you can then treat the singular custom property like the alternative structure.
Sophie P.
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thanks Andrew S.!